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 […]
In the Nepal culture, it is a custom that every woman in her menstruation period is isolated from the rest of the community saying she is impure. Girls and women are always locked up in the ‘menstruation hut’ with no window and proper ventilation upto the end of the cycle. Although the practice was ruled […]
The first lady and minister for education and sports Janet Kataaha Museveni has urged governments in the Great lakes region to strengthen their efforts towards the eradication of all forms of Sexual and Gender Based Violence (SGBV) in the Region. Speaking during the commissioning of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region- Regional Training Facility […]