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.
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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 …
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.
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 …
Revenge porn – the release of one’s intimate images or videos online without consent – is a kind of cyber harassment that has become prevalent in the internet age. Mobile phones are becoming more and more powerful and most models …
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