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News Archive
Memory and Transitional Justice in Uganda - Perspectives from the Field
Mar
25
2021
Posted: 09:35 GMT
Memory and Transitional Justice in Uganda - Perspectives from the Field
with
SOLOMY AWIDI
Lawyer and Memorialisation Programme Lead at Refugee Law Project, Uganda.
Time: 1:00-2:00 (Irish Standard Time)
Date: 29 March 2021
Zoom Meeting
Speaker Biography:
Solomy Awidi is a Ugandan lawyer with Refugee Law Project, and specialises in Transitional Justice, Documentation and Memorialisation. She is the current Programme Lead in the area of Memory and Truth Telling, and has conducted extensive fieldwork across Uganda documenting conflict and working with communities to facilitate memorialisation activities.
The Refugee Law Project
Established in 1999 to provide legal aid to asylum seekers and refugees in Uganda, the Refugee Law Project (RLP) is an indigenous Ugandan organisation and an outreach project of the School of Law, Makerere University. RLP was formed in response to the realisation that despite Uganda’s strong international reputation for providing asylum to refugees, refugees did not always enjoy their rights in accordance with domestic and international law.
RLP incorporates a Human Rights approach to providing for refugees upholding the values of non-discrimination, rigour, innovation, respect, accountability, professionalism and independence. RLP also works closely with the Office of the Prime Minister, Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Justice Law and Order Sector, local government officials and refugee communities to engage in education and training activities aimed at addressing refugee issues using a Human Rights lens.
RLP has an active research and advocacy component committed to providing necessary empirical support for any debate about policy and legislation, and to advocate on behalf of its client base. Since its formation, RLP has further widened the scope of its activities to include other forced migrants such as IDPs, as well as examining questions surrounding Access to Justice, Gender and Sexuality, Conflict Transitional Justice and Governance, Mental Health and Psychosocial Wellbeing, Media for Social Change and Climate Change and Forced Migration seeing as these affect forcibly displaced populations as well, bringing its overall focus from only Refugees to “Justice & Forced Migration”.
Website: www.nuigalway.ie/human_rights/
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