Humanist

The emphasis of the official United Nations International Women’s Day theme for 8th March 2026, rings true for me at a personal level and overall too for my motherland.

“Legal rights on paper are meaningless without justice in practice.”

While I continue to fight on, the battle is uphill.

In keeping with the International Women’s Day Theme 2026, “Give To Gain,” I give credit where it is due to women in the justice, law and order sector who are holding my hand alongside their male counterparts.

Sadly, such women in the justice, law and order sector are the minority, at least in accordance with my experience.

If there is ever anything of value that I would gladly receive is the expertise and skill to successfully navigate our broken justice in practice.

Better still, how can I give to fix it so that it works in practice and delivers timely justice for all?

I long for a sisterhood in which my fellow women endowed with legal expertise put our heads together, to deliver justice not only for me, but for many other women battling Gender-Based Violence.

I pray for many more precedents to be set where women are the ones victorious against the criminals.

It depresses me some that among the main protagonists who make it harder for women to access justice in practice are women.

I am talking women who have been given the opportunity and position within the justice, law and order sector to ensure and assure access to justice, but turn around and frustrate access to justice by women.

I hold out hope in the belief that truth shall eventually triumph, that I will access justice in practice and I will be made whole.

CLICK HERE to learn more about my legal battles and to familiarize with a real case study of the plight of women seeking justice in Uganda.