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- Ugandan justice system failing survivors of sexual violence.
Amnesty International, 13 December 2007.
The justice system in Uganda is failing women and girls who have faced sexual violence, and is allowing perpetrators to walk free as it ignores, denies, and tacitly condones violence against women.
- Parliament asked to ban female circumcision.
New Vision Online, 12 December 2007.
THE Kapchorwa district local government has appealed to Parliament to pass a law that bans female circumcision.
- Women should talk about sexual violence.
New Vision, Uganda, 17 September 2007.
There has been a tendency in the media to treat victims of sexual violence differently, depending on their sexual orientation. Is there any difference if one is sexually assaulted because they are ‘gay’ or ‘straight?’
- Uganda Releases Demographic Health Survey, Findings Detail Women's Health, Violence Against Women.
KaiserNetwork.org, Kaiser Daily Women’s Health Policy, 22 August 2007.
The survey also found that 70% of women and 60% of men believe there are some situations in which violence against women is justified.
- High sexual violence places women at greater HIV risk.
IRIN PlusNews, 21 August 2007.
Almost 40 percent of Ugandan women aged between 15 and 49 have experienced some form of sexual violence in their lifetime, a statistic that is "unacceptably high", gender experts said.
- Asian children smuggled into Uganda.
The New Vision Online, 21 June 2007. Asian children mainly from India, Pakistan and China are being trafficked into Uganda, the International Labour Organisation (ILO) has revealed.
- 'Giving Out their Daughters for their Survival': Refugee Self-reliance, 'Vulnerability', and the Paradox of Early Marriage, Refuge Law Project, April 2007
- Doubly Traumatised - Lack of access to justice for female victims of sexual and gender-based violence in northern Uganda, Amnesty International, 2007
- Responding to Domestic Violence: A Handbook for the Uganda Police Force, Turyasingura Hope, Center for Domestic Violence Prevention (CEDOVIP), Uganda Police Force, 2007
- Beyond Victimhood: Women's Peacebuilding In Sudan, Congo and Uganda, International Crisis Group, 2006
- Assessing the Vulnerability of Women Street Traders to HIV/AIDS: A Comparative Analysis of Uganda and South Africa Sabrina Lee. Health Economics and HIV/AIDS Research Division, University of KwaZulu-Natal, July 2004.
- Research Division (HEARD), University of Natal, 2004
- The Coalition Against Gender Violence. Assessment of gender violence in Apac and Mbale districts of Uganda, UNFPA, Addis Ababa, 2004
- Just Die Quietly: Domestic Violence and Women's Vulnerability to HIV In Uganda, Human Rights Watch, 2003
- Health services for survivors of gender-based violence in northern Uganda: a qualitative study. Henttonen M, Watts C, Roberts B, Kaducu F, Borchert M. Reprod Health Matters; 16(31): 122-31. 2008
- Coerced first sex among adolescent girls in sub-Saharan Africa: prevalence and context. Moore AM, Awusabo-Asare K, Madise N, et al. Afr J Reprod Health; 11(3); 2007
- Framing HIV Prevention Discourse to Encompass the Complexities of War in Northern Uganda. Westerhaus, M. J., A. C. Finnegan, et al. American Journal of Public Health. 97: 1184-1186. 2007
- Violence against girls in Africa: a retrospective survey in Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda, Stavropoulos, J, African Child Policy Forum, 2006
- Intimate partner violence against women in eastern Uganda: implications for HIV prevention Karamagi CA, Tumwine JK, Tylleskar T, Heggenhougen K. BMC Public Health. 2006 Nov 20;6:284.
- Coerced First Intercourse and Reproductive Health Among Adolescent Women in Rakai, Uganda, Michael A. Koenig, Iryna Zablotska, Tom Lutalo, Fred Nalugoda, Jennifer Wagman and Ron Gray, International Family Planning Perspectives, Volume 30, Number 4, December 2004
- Koenig, M. A., T. Lutalo, et al.. "Domestic violence in rural : evidence from a community-based study." Bulletin of the World Health Organization 81: 53-60. 2003
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