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Presidential Decree No. UP-5618 “On the radical improvement of the system of legal awareness and legal culture in society.”

Country/Territory
Uzbekistan
Document type
Regulation
Date
2019
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Subject
General
Keyword
Governance Access-to-justice Public participation Offences/penalties Legal proceedings/administrative proceedings Enforcement/compliance Education Public private partnership (PPP)
Geographical area
Aral Sea, Asia, Asia and the Pacific, Central Asia, CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States), Europe and Central Asia, Landlocked Developing Nations, North Asia
Abstract

This Presidential Decree establishes basic arrangements for the radical improvement of the system of legal awareness and legal culture in society as follows: (a) raising legal awareness and legal culture in society; (b) formation of a system of consistent communication to the population of the essence and importance of socio-economic reforms implemented in the country, the adopted acts of legislation and state programs, strengthening in the minds of citizens the vital idea of "Establishing in the society the spirit of respect for the laws - the guarantee of building a democratic state based on the law"; (c) implementation of systematic and interrelated educational and pedagogical work, deep assertion of legal awareness and legal culture in all segments of the population, starting with the pre-school education system, wide promotion of the idea of maintaining the balance of personal and public interests; (d) a profound assertion in the minds of the younger generation of the concepts of rights and duties, honesty and integrity, ethical norms, teaching the important provisions of the Constitution from an early age; (e) organizing legal education activities among the population in order to develop a legal culture in harmony with the study of history, religion, and national values of our people, as well as strengthening each citizen's involvement in the fate of the country, patriotism through the formation of a sense of pride in state symbols; (f) raising legal awareness and legal culture of civil servants, promoting an intolerant attitude to corruption and other criminal offences; (g) strengthening of interaction between public authorities and management bodies, including law enforcement agencies, as well as civil society institutions in the implementation of targeted legal advocacy; (h) establishing, on a systematic basis, a broad and effective use of the principles of social partnership in the organization of measures to raise legal awareness and legal culture in society; (i) strengthening the role of mass media in providing legal information, wide use of innovative methods of legal advocacy, including increased use of modern information technologies; (j) improving legal education, as well as the development of a system of training, retraining and advanced training of legal personnel; and (k) in-depth study of the scientific basis for increasing legal awareness and legal culture in society.

Full text
Russian
Website
lex.uz