The Global Campaigns and Policy Advisor for OXFAM on HIV/AIDS, Beatrice Were has hailed the government of Uganda for ratifying the protocol on the rights of women in Africa thus becoming the 28th country to ratify the protocol. This comes hardly two days after Uganda ratified this protocol that aims at promoting women’s rights with […]
Civil Society Organizations operating in Africa have pledged to petition the African Union to promise that its various member countries will commit themselves to fighting reducing maternal health and not just talk about maternal health during this year’s summit that is taking place in Kampala and with a theme on maternal and child health. The […]
The African Leadership Institute is to negotiate with the Judiciary in Uganda such that it can be allowed to assess the performance of the judges and magistrates in the country. This comes after AFLI released a partial report of its third Parliamentary scorecard assessment that has shown improved performance of Uganda’s legislators in the latest […]
Uganda members of Parliament registered improved performance in the 2009 Parliamentary score card assessment of the African Leadership Institute according to partial report of the scorecard assessment released Friday. African Leadership Institute annually assesses the performance of the Members of Parliament though by publishing the Parliamentary scorecard which rates every MP’s performance. While launching the […]
Among the cases of rape reported in the media in 2009, none of those cases of rape occurred in Northern Uganda according to report prepared by Action aid and UWONET. The report named the Synopsis of Sexual and Gender Based Violence in the Print Media profiles the different incidents of gender based violence that was […]
The National Resistance Movement (NRM) government has elected its party grass roots leaders this Friday in different parts of the country. The Secretary General of NRM, Amama Mbabazi says elections have kicked off in time at different poling centers country wide. He says the few discrepancies that have been reported at different poling centers are […]
Uganda Women Network has expressed fears that the Local Council Courts may not be able to appropriately handle cases of domestic violence if the government does not come out to supervise such courts to ensure that they offer the necessary justice in relation to domestic violence. The newly enacted Domestic Violence Act empowers LC courts […]
The people of Southern Sudan have criticized the African Union accusing it for backing the Khartoum government and its leader Omar El Bashir at the expense of the interests of the people of Southern Sudan. This comes at a time when Southern Sudan is preparing for a referendum due to take place on January 9 […]
The Directorate of Ethics and Integrity has handed over 60 motorcycles worth over 1 billion shillings to the Uganda Police Anti Corruption Squad to ease the transport of the police in their work of curbing corruption in Uganda. These motorcycles are part of the project by USAID on corruption that started in 2007 and ended […]
The Minister of Relief, Disaster Preparedness and Refugees, Prof. Tarsis Kabwegyere has responded to the earlier claims of various refugee organizations that pinned the government for failure to respect immigration laws by allegedly deporting Rwandan refugee about a week ago. Last week the International Refugee Rights Initiative and the Refugee Law Project came out and […]