The Permanent Secretary (PS) to the Ministry of Finance recently published an op-ed in one of the dailies, educating us about Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Despite the PS’s attempts to explain GDP as “your everyday life,” he inadvertently unearths what …
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With LGBTQIA+ Ugandans already fighting for their lives against this violence, state criminalization of their sexualities renders their sexual and reproductive health also illegal – taboo even. Sexual and reproductive health then takes on as another layer for struggle.
To offset the burden of women’s unpaid care work, it must first be recognised, reduced and re-distributed equitably.
The Government is saying to this school girl: we won't give you all the information you need to avoid early pregnancy, but we forbid you to terminate it when you get pregnant, or else...
Mukiibi, who is also a staff counsellor at Nsambya, stated that sex without procreation “becomes evil” – before recommending what he called “exposure therapy”, telling our undercover reporter to “get a housemaid” that her supposedly gay teenage brother can “get …
The passing of the Sexual Offences Bill came just weeks after the release of Uganda’s 2020 crime report, which saw domestic violence rise by 29 percent and statutory rape increase by 3.8 percent amid a national lockdown. The Bill covers …
Between May 2017 and 2018, women who had been reported kidnapped were found dumped dead in areas of Nansana and Katabi, Entebbe suburbs. Many of their naked bodies were strangled, some with visible signs of sexual assault including the insertion …
The case decided against Edward Kisuze displays a big failure on the part of many of us who refuse to grasp the concept of consent; which in turn impedes our full conceptualisation of sexual assault and, or rape.
More and more recently, we have been hearing in soul crushing details, the narrations of mothers, friends, siblings, and lovers who share with us their griefs on national TV, tears streaming down their eyes. You see, their people, like many …
“For My Father, …and yours, for the losses we mourn publicly and those we don’t.” It has been a difficult year on many fronts, for many people. I am alive to the harsh realities of the world we live in. …
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