Concepts of human rights and gender; gender and the law; evolution of women’s rights as human rights; international, regional instruments, conventions and mechanisms for the enforcement of human rights; national initiatives for the protection of women’s rights: national gender policy framework, civil society organizations. Social, political and legal perspectives of human rights and violence; gender and customary and statutory law (civil and criminal) in Uganda; property inheritance; marriage, divorce, adultery; gender and crime, imprisonment and rehabilitation.
