Tag Archives: Violence against Women

Government expresses worry over increasing sexual and gender-based violence cases in the country. The ministry of gender made a survey and apparently noted that there is an increase in cases. “Today we are seeing increasing sexual violence. In 2016, according to the recently launched national survey on gender-based violence in Uganda by UBOS, we stood at 21% but today, it ...

The Deputy Speaker of Parliament Anita Among is in Spain’s capital Madrid to attend the 142nd Inter-Parliamentary Union conference. IPU is a global organization of national parliaments. Among held a bilateral meeting with the president and executive committee of the IPU on the sidelines of the conference. The meeting aimed at establishing the role the Ugandan Parliament can play in ...