Uganda, April 30 -- A section of female Muslim lawyers have asked the Constitutional Court in Uganda to direct the government to enact and pass a law that operationalises Qadhi Courts in the country to promote access to justice as a basic human right.

Currently, the Muslim population in the country adjudicates conflicts through an informal justice system that is largely unregulated, lacks a force of law and whose treatment of marginalized categories of persons such as women is undocumented.

In the petition filed Tuesday at the Constitutional Court, Ms Asha Mastullah Mwanga and the Islamic Women's Initiative for justice law and peace said they are aggrieved by the omission of the state to enact and pass a law that operationalises Qadhi i...