Tag: Gender-Based Violence
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Ladies, stop woman-on-woman cyber bullying as well
I have seen on a social media profile of a slay queen (I presume) a picture of the wedded wife of Kakwenza Rukirabashaija carrying her baby boy, both mother and child looking visibly distraught. I assume that the picture was taken at one of the times when her husband was tortured and in detention. She…
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What is needed to defeat gender-based violence
I wrote this before I became a victim of sibling-on-sibling gender-based violence; albeit now, I am a determined survivor who is legally fighting back with all she has got. Meanwhile, each word that I prior wrote has taken on enhanced meaning for me. I wrote: “A common misunderstanding or distortion of gender in Uganda is…
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Discourse analysis & fact check of Police statement on Nabulime
Uganda Police Force (UPF): “The mother/housewife identified as Nabulime Dorothy, aged 22” has a “two-year-old daughter.” ME: Which means she was a child bride and is a child mother. UPF: “The mother showed no sympathy, compassion and love, expected from a mother towards her 2-year-old daughter. Upon arrest, she was subjected to a mental health…
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Timely succession law
Listening to the “Spectrum” talk show on Radio One FM90 on the evening of 12th May 2022, I was happy to hear and to be educated on the highlights of Uganda’s new succession law. I loved to learn the fact that “the law under section 27 now maintains the traditional heir to a deceased person,…
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Bridge online gender-gap
My Facebook page, Norah Owaraga’s Blog, is followed mostly by men. It bothers me. So, I generated a post on Facebook with the breakdown statistics of my blog followers, accompanied with the caption: “Just wondering why my blog is followed by 79 percent men and only 21 percent women. And moreover, the majority are in…
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