Uganda will host women leaders and ministers in charge for women affairs in Kampala for the 8th Commonwealth Women Affairs Ministers Meeting. The theme of the upcoming meeting is "Financing Gender Equality for Development and Democracy."

The lawyers from the Law and Advocacy for Women in Uganda succeeded in changing unfavorable for women law on adultery. The constitutional court of Uganda ruled in favor of a group of female activists to omit the law from the penal code.

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.
For more information, please visit All Africa's Website.

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.
To read the full article, please visit the All Africa's Website.