Cura 1 - LEMU - The Land and Equity Movement in Uganda

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LANGO CULTURAL FOUNDATION The Principles, Practices, Rights and Responsibilities (PPRR) of Customary Tenure in Lango Region marriage but living with their mothers are shown their land in their fathers homes and their rights are protected until they are old enough to live on their land. The clan members of the divorced women and widows must ensure the land is shown to the children by their fathers and their clans. e) Where the parents and the clans fail to show the children where their land is, they must accept this failure and must not chase the affected children but shall give them land to hold in perpetuity. f) If the families of the divorced women or widows who return to their maiden homes want to give land rights to the children of their divorced and widowed daughters, no one shall remove these rights. g) Children born to a wife who is separated but not divorced have rights to the clan land of the husband whether or not the biological father of the child is or is not a clan member of the husband. The husband and the clan of the husband must give land to the children. h) Children of a widow who has not remarried whether or not the biological father of the child is or is not a clan member of the husband, have rights to land of the widow’s husband. The family of the husband must give land to the children. Part 3 : Land rights of widows, and divorced women. 7. Land rights of widows and their protection. 0 a) A widow becomes a head of family over the land which was allocated to her at marriage and when her husband still lived. b) At the last funeral rite of the husband a widow must make her choice known to the clan in writing or in the presence of trusted clan members and members of the LC 1 executives. A widow may choose if she wants to return to fathers land or remain in her marital land with or without a man in her life. c) Widows who voluntarily leave their marital homes to get married in another clan must appoint one of the children as the head of family and leave the land to her/him or leave the land to the clan of her husband if she has no children or if the children are young. d) Women who are separated with their husbands and return to their fathers land or remarry in another clan must leave the land to her husband or the clan of the husband. e) Women who are separated from their husbands but who are not divorced have the right to return to her land in her marital home. The
The Principles, Practices, Rights and Responsibilities (PPRR) of Customary Tenure in Lango Region LANGO CULTURAL FOUNDATION husband and the clan must return the land to them. f) A divorced woman who returns to her parents or re-marries to a man of another clan shall leave the marital land of the former husband to her children and their clans. Part 4 : Land rights after long absence and rights of IDPS. 8. Land rights after a long absence from family land. a) Any person, family or community that lived away from their original home for a very long time without visiting the original home, informing neigbours or local leaders of their intention to retain land rights over the original home, shall have no right to re-claim the land if on return, they find their original home had already been occupied by other persons who genuinely believed that this land was virgin and vacant land, without original owner(s). The exceptions to the above are only if: i. The people who have occupied the land are other relatives who knew or should have known that the land belonged to the person, family or community that lived away from the land ii. If the people on the land are neighbours or friends of the neighbours to the land of the people who lived away from the family land iii. If people who occupied the land are children or grand children of the person who had given this land to the family who lived away from the land. iv. On return, they find the land is still vacant or the land is occupied after 1998 when the Land Act was passed. v. The people who left their home to stay away were minors; persons in prison; students at school; refugees outside Uganda; had left the family land due to war/political instability or are minors who did not know of the existence of this land. b) If the person, family or community that lived away from the original land in question is claiming rights to this land to sell it they will not have the right to do so. It will be construed that the intention of their staying away from their original family land was to permanently migrate and settle elsewhere. The land must remain with the people who occupied it and not with family or community reclaiming it.
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