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 …
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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. …
The internet, it can be argued, is where womxn come to express themselves freely, without the direct reprimand and suppression that is a direct repercussion of us even remotely having an opinion in the physical spaces of the patriarchal societies …
A young white missionary woman comes to Uganda with the sole purpose of “helping young Africans.” She goes on to set up a charity organization in order “to promote evangelism, provide welfare for the needy and empower families” where according …
One of my intentions at the beginning of this year was to learn how to slow down and live more in the present. I had just quit a highly toxic job which had taken a toll on my mental and …
Raised on the tenacity of her mother; a God-fearing womxn who held onto the lapels of life and worked tooth and nail to provide for her children, this young womxn holds dear the conviction that it is her mother’s faith …
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