WOMEN Prisoners' Support Organisation (WPSO), a non-governmental organisation, together with Irish Aid, has established a functional literacy and skills training programme for prisoners in Jinja main prison.
President Yoweri Museveni said 'education for all' was crucial in eliminating gender inequality in the Commonwealth countries.
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Uganda's position to increase the number of women in the military, police and prisons services, professions that have largely remained a preserve of men was presented by the State Minister for Gender, Rukia Isanga at the ongoing 8th Commonwealth Women Affairs Ministers' Meeting at Speke Resort Mu
The future of women on the globe attracted immense attention, lobbying, and talk last week as 32 delegations of women affairs ministers from the 53 Commonwealth countries jetted into Uganda and pitched camp at Speke Resort Munyonyo on the shores of Lake Victoria.
An American film star, Natalie Portman, has commended Ugandan women for their entrepreneurship, saying it has brought hope to vulnerable communities.
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The multiparty system of governance does not promote women's participation in leadership, former ethics minister Miria Matembe has said. She attacked the Government for co-opting young women into State structures, making them keep quiet.
Although affirmative action has gone a long way in providing women with leadership roles, their impact in local councils (LCs) and Parliament is yet to be realised.
Women Members of Parliament will present the Domestic Violence Bill (DRB) as a Private Members Bill if government fails to move it before the House by the end of this year.
This Thursday, when finance minister Syda Bbumba makes a grand entry into the Serena Conference Centre to present the 2009/2010 budget, she will in all likelihood be greeted by thunderous applause.