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Uganda
Uganda has a population estimated at 32.7 million (UN, 2009) with an area of 241,038 sq km (93,072 sq miles). The capital is Kampala. The major languages are English (official), Swahili (official), Luganda, various Bantu and Nilotic languages.
Violence in Northern Uganda perpetrated by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) has continued for over two decades. The violence has displaced more than 1.6 million people and tens of thousands of civilians have been killed or kidnapped. The UN estimates that the group has abducted 20,000 children. Violence against women and girls, including rape, marital rape, domestic violence, forced and early marriages, remain widespread in the country.
- Uganda ratified The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) on July 22, 1985
- Uganda adopted a National Action Plan on United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 (UNSCR 1325) in December 2008. Please click here for further information
- Uganda had a UN peacekeeping mandate: United Nations Observer Mission Uganda-Rwanda (UNOMUR) from June 1993 to September 1994
Sources:BBC; Amnesty International; UNIFEM
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News
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March 6, 2012 (War Child)
UGANDA: Looking for Justice in Northern Uganda I was attending a War Child community outreach event in Northern Uganda, an opportunity for all community members to come together to discuss important community issues. The topics ranged from child neglect and conjugal rights to alcoholism and taking care of the elderly. But amongst all the topics, one stood out: defilement. And it was largely because of one man's story. -
February 15, 2012 (All Africa)
UGANDA: 600 Girls Victims of Human Trafficking in Malaysia At least 600 Ugandan girls have been forced into Malaysia's sex trade in what has become a human trafficking epidemic, a foreign diplomat has said. -
February 15, 2012 (Daily Monitor)
UGANDA: When Women Are Seen As Objects, No Girl Can Be Safe In This Society Sunday Monitor of February 12, refers to a new report that has revealed that 20 per cent of city students are in the sex trade. Girls down to pre-teens are recruited into transactional sex. This comes on top of the survey published three-and- half years ago which showed that 40,000 girls in upper primary school were defiled annually by their teachers. -
February 8, 2012 (CNN)
INTERNATIONAL: Can we End Rape as Tool of War? We first thought about starting this piece with the story of Saleha Begum, a survivor of Bangladesh's 1971 war in which, some reports say, as many as 400,000 women were raped. Begum had been tied to a banana tree and repeatedly gang raped and burned with cigarettes for months until she was shot and left for dead in a pile of women. She didn't die, though, and was able to return home, ravaged and five months pregnant. When she got home she was branded a "slut." -
February 8, 2012 (Make Every Woman Count)
UGANDA: Maiming Women: Society and Judiciary Not Doing Enough Grisly and ghastly are probably the most apt words to describe the story that appeared in this newspaper yesterday, of a young woman whose hands were chopped off by an angry ex-husband (Man held over attack on ex-wife, Daily Monitor, February 6).
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Resources
- From Resolution to Reality: Lessons Learned from Afghanistan, Nepal and Uganda on Women's Participation in Peacebuilding and Post-Conflict Governance, CARE, November 17, 2010 | Download PDF
- The Impact of National Land Policy and Land Reform on Women in Uganda, COHRE, October 2010 | Download PDF
- Monthly Action Points (MAP) on Women, Peace and Security, NGOWG, October 2010, NGO Working Group on Women, Peace and Security, October 2010 | Download PDF
- Changing Fortunes: Women's Economic Opportunities in Post-War Northern Uganda, International Alert, September 2010 | Download PDF
- 'As If We Weren't Human' - Discrimination and Violence against Women with Disabilities in Northern Uganda, Human Rights Watch, August 26, 2010 | Download PDF
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Initiatives
- VIDEO: BBC Assignment: Ugandan Women Tricked into Domestic Slavery in Iraq, Multi-Media, , May 27, 2011
- OTHER: Rock Stars Lend Their Sound To The Voice Project And Ugandan Women, Other, , April 20, 2011
- CONFERENCE FOLLOW UP: 1325+10 Peace Fair's Cyber Dialogue In-Country Statements , Conferences & Meetings, , January 1, 2011
- BLOG: Engendering Our Work in Uganda, Online Dialogues & Blogs, , December 2010
- BLOG: Women as Peace-builders: Documentary, Out of the Ashes, Online Dialogues & Blogs, Multi-Media, , December 10, 2010
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PeaceWomen Publications
- Monthly Action Points (MAP) on Women, Peace and Security, NGOWG, October 2010 (NGO) , MAP , October 2010
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Organizations
- The Uganda Women's Network (UWONET)
- Coalition for Political Accountability to Women (COPAW)
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Strategic Initiative for Women in the Horn of Africa
(SIHA)
SIHA is advocating for social change and gender equality for men and women in the Horn of Africa and working specifically on: gender equality, eliminating violence against women and girls, promoting human rights, peace building and conflict transformation, enhancing women's leadership as well as political participation and production and dissemination of knowledge.
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