former minister of ethics and integrity , Miria Matembe

Action Aid Uganda a has warned MPs against amending article 26 of the constitution to give government compulsory acquisition of land saying they risk facing the citizen’s anger of the move.

This was disclosed by the Fundraising Director at Action Aid Uganda, Henry Nickson Ogwal, while addressing Members of Parliament under the Uganda Women  Parliamentary Association on issues of land at Eureka hotel in Ntinda said that the new land amendment bill will steer conflicts starting from families  because there will be no due process to resolve the land conflict.

He added that the bill will threaten the available peace .

Ogwal asked the MPS to avoid being partisan when it comes to issues concerning land .

The former minister of ethics and integrity , Miria Matembe, urged members of parliament to withstand any further pressure from government over the proposed constitutional amendment of article 26 and further asked them to resist more attempts to undermine citizens .

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sexual and gender based violence rife in Uganda

The Women Wont Wait Campaign that is being led by Action Aid has demanded that the government should urgently repeal all the laws that discriminate against women.

The campaign which prominently, publicly and consistently underscores that violence against women and girls is a major driver and consequence of HIV/AIDS has also made other various demands on violence against women and HIV/AIDS.

According to a media statement by Action Aid the campaign demands that government should increase its funding to the programs that are geared towards preventing violence against women and girls.

The campaign further demands that violence against women in Uganda should be approached as a community issue, an issue of public health and as a human rights crisis that calls for the attention of community members, health workers, law makers and policy implementers if it is as successfully countered as the women would have wished.

Women wont wait campaign is an international coalition of organizations and networks working to promote women’s health and human rights in the struggle to address HIV/AIDS and end all forms of violence against women.

By Tiberindwa Zakaria

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Action Aid, an International NGO operating in Uganda has appealed to the Uganda government to make better policies to help Uganda rural women involved in agriculture get out of poverty.

Uganda farmers

Dr. Paul Ojuman, Action Aid policy manager says Uganda agricultural policies mainly focus on commercial agriculture which doesn’t favour the rural poor.

Ojuman says women miss out from the NAADS projects because they can’t influence decision making since they are group oriented leading to reduction in agricultural output.

According to the recent report by Action Aid, Uganda’s agricultural sector output has declined from 7.9 percent in 2002 to 2.2 percent in 2008 leading to increased poverty.

Fred Kawooya, Action Aid Food Rights Coordinator says the situation has been worsened by governments assistance inform of loans which scare away rural women because they have no property that serve as securities.

Agriculture remains the backbone of Uganda’s economy accounting for 25 percent of the country’s GDP, employing about 75 percent of the population and providing livelihoods to over 80 percent of the rural poor.

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