Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Legal Aid Service Providers Network-LASPNET has asked the judiciary top leadership to prevail over judicial officers who use their positions to issue harsh bail conditions with intention of failing justice. In their statement, the LASPNET Board of Directors led by Arthur Nsereko from the …
Read More »LASPNET launches campaign to combat increasing GBV cases
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Legal Aid Service Provider’s Network-LASPNET has rolled out a community-legal watch brief campaign aimed at combating the increasing cases of Gender-Based Violence-GBV in Mukono, Buikwe and Kayunga districts. The campaign funded by European Union will run for a period of two years at a …
Read More »Behind DGF’s suspension
How the space of the civil societies has been shrinking Kampala, Uganda | PATRICIA AKANKWATSA | On Feb, 03 the country woke up to the news that had President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni ordered the Ministry of Finance to suspend all activities of the Democratic Governance Facility (DGF) for financing subversive …
Read More »Human rights abuses by security forces worry lawyers
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Legal Aid Service Providers organized under Legal Aid Service Providers Network-LASPNET have decried impunity of security organs and political interference in legal, matters that have adversely affected human rights. In their report about the Human Rights during the 2021electoral process, they say Freedom of expression, …
Read More »Legal aid providers call for extraordinary meeting of lawyers over deteriorating rule of law
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Legal Aid Service Providers Network Uganda-LASPNET wants Uganda Law Society and Uganda Law Council to convene an extraordinary meeting of all lawyers to discuss the rule of law in the country. Addressing journalists at the LASPNET secretariat in Kampala over the weekend regarding the …
Read More »Lawyers call for dialogue to end election violence
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Lawyers under their humanitarian umbrella, the Legal Aid Service Providers Network-LASPNET have petitioned the arms and institutions of government to hold a dialogue aimed at putting an end to violence in the country. In the recent weeks as the politicians and the general public prepared …
Read More »Sexually abused girls, women to get legal assistance
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Legal Aid Service Providers Network- LASPNET has launched a campaign to connect sexually abused girls and women to lawyers who will help in giving them timely legal information and assist in seeking justice. In the campaign for eliminating violence against women and girls, Sylvia …
Read More »Legal Aid service providers condemn security brutality
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Legal Aid services providers have condemned security personnel for acts of brutality meted out on presidential candidates. Protests erupted in different parts of the country on Wednesday and Thursday after the arrest of Presidential Candidate Robert Kyagulanyi in Luuka district. In a statement, Arthur Nsereko, …
Read More »Ugandans losing confidence in judicial system – LASPNET
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Ugandans are losing confidence in the judicial system according to the Legal Aid Service Providers Network- LASPNET. Speaking at the launch of the Action Research on Status of Implementation of Justice in Uganda, Professor Christopher Mbaziira, a human rights researcher said findings in this research …
Read More »Human rights defenders called upon to prosecute perpetrators of election violence
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Legal Aid Providers Network-LASPNET is lining up a team of lawyers to prosecute perpetrators of election violence in the upcoming election. LAPSNET’s executive director Sylvia Namubiru Mukasa reveals that their organization will take legal action against all security officers, candidates and their agents who …
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