Human Rights

To the women’s rescue: Saving Ugandan island

To the women’s rescue: Saving Ugandan island

By Namutebi Patricia It is 6 pm and I am sailing on the mighty Lake Victoria, the largest freshwater lake in the world. The huge waves keep flapping against the local man-made boat, I arrive ashore on Myende Island at 8 pm. I brave the last-minute moments of being carried off the boat. Uganda’s water industry is […]

New solutions for GBV to promote peace in Uganda

New solutions for GBV to promote peace in Uganda

By Namutebi Patricia Thirty-eight-year-old Nanozi Sandra* welcomes me with a smile. She is carrying a child on her back as she weighs and packs up plastic bottles in a huge sack. She displays a face of resilience. Sandra is a single mother of five. She collects garbage which she later sells at a recycling plant. Sandra […]

Silencing the guns: Gloria’s journey from the frontlines of LRA war

Silencing the guns: Gloria’s journey from the frontlines of LRA war

By Namutebi Patricia When passion meets purpose, our lives become meaningful and then impactful. I met Gloria Laker Aciro Adiiki. She is one of Uganda’s female journalists who has covered war stories. She narrates the story to AWiM News below: Gloria narrates, “As a former war and peace reporter during the northern Uganda LRA war, this is […]

Should gene-editing be approved for its means or end

Should gene-editing be approved for its means or end

The notion of gene editing has taken phase to maybe advanced thoughts of people who may not be following progress in science and technology, what Bioethicists refers to as bio-technology. Many of us may have probably heard or known about stories of DNA tests that aim at creating identity. This identity is geared to find […]

India’s hangman, hungry to execute four rapists

India’s hangman, hungry to execute four rapists

Being a hangman may not be the best of jobs but one such man in Indian is excited for a call to Delhi in the coming days to execute four men who gang raped and murdered a female student on a moving bus a eight  years ago. Pawan Jallad, a fourth generation executioner, says he […]

We need to create grassroots radio stations-Besigye

We need to create grassroots radio stations-Besigye

Former Forum for Democratic Change presidential candidate Dr Col. Kizza Besigye has insisted that stopping him from reaching his people via radio stations won’t deter him from sending his message to people. Besigye said this on Saturday while in Kitgum district after the Kitgum Resident District Commissioner, Mr Christopher Omara reportedly ordered his talk that […]

Meghan Markle wows public with speech on women’s right

The Duchess of Sussex, Meghan Markle has moved the public in New zealand with her speech based on the country’s history of women’s suffrage.  The Duchess was on a joint royal tour with her husband, Prince Harry in  New Zealand on Sunday. “We are proud to be able to join you tonight in celebrating the 125th anniversary of women’s suffrage in […]

Over 150 Ugandans deported from United Arab Emirates due to crime

Over 150 Ugandans deported from United Arab Emirates due to crime

The foreign affairs ministry has stated that a total of 154 Ugandans have been deported from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) after negotiations by the Ugandan embassy in Abu Dhabi.(Daily Monitor) Mr Moses Kasujja,  told Daily Monitor that some of the deportees had committed offences and were serving jail sentences. According to Mr. Kasujja, the […]

Security tightened ahead of Bobiwine home coming

Security tightened ahead of Bobiwine home coming

Just hours to the return of the Kyadondo East Member of Parliament,Hon. Robert Kyagulanyi Sentamu alias Bobi Wine, police and the miltary have teamed to provide a security to ensure that no ‘law is broken’. There has been a heavy deployment of security both in police uniforms and military wear in the places where the […]

US calls International Criminal Court ‘dangerous’

US calls International Criminal Court ‘dangerous’

Global giant, U.S.A has withdrawn its trust from the International Criminal Court(ICC) deeming it very ‘dangerous’ According to John Bolton, the White House National Security Advisor,the court constitutes an assault on US sovereignty, given its an unaccountable tendencies. “In theory, the ICC holds perpetrators of the most egregious atrocities accountable for their crimes, provides justice […]

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