Mozambican Justice Minister Jose Abuso defended on Thursday the need to set up community tribunals as a means to improve the performance of the judicial organms at grass roots level and value their role within the communities country wide.
"Accessibility, quick action and informality are charactiristics of these grass roots decison-making organs, which makes them particularly important for the solving of the people's problems in the ruarl areas", said Abudo.
Delivgering a speech on the theme "The Justice Administration System in a State of Law", he was adressing the participants to a National Seminar on "Torture, Police Brutality, and the Civil Society".
He said that because of their importance, it becomes necessary to speed up the reform of the Law of the Community Tribunals, that is already taking place in the country.
Abudo stressed that the experience collected among the communities, strengthened the idea that it is necessary to enhence the functioning of those organs.
He added that in general terms, and because it became clear that a lot is yet to be done for the justice system in Mozambique to be able to respond to the expectations of all the people, the government has been doubling its efforts to train competent professionals for the judiciary.
For this end, he mentioned the opening of the Juridic and Judiciary Training Centre, that has been training judicial magistrates for the Attorney's Office, for the Notary and Registry Services, as well as inspector of the Criminal Investigation Police (PIC), among othe staff of the justice system.
He also stressed that justice administration in a State of Law is intrinsicly linked to the respect for human rights.
The four day seminar is organized by the Southern African Human Rights Organizations Network, in coordination with the Human Rights and Development National Research Centre.
Fonte: AIM
