30th JULY,2020 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Kampala, Uganda — As the world marks the World Day Against Human Trafficking, the Women’s Probono Initiative (WPI) and Ms Nansikombi Janet have dragged the Uganda Government and Transcend International to the High Court for failing to protect human rights of victims of labour exportation to Saudi Arabia. Namubiru
Read MoreThe Women’s Probono Initiative made an application for revision of sentence on behalf of the Aciro Lily and 19 others. The application highlighted the irregularities in the lower court’s proceedings as the record of proceeding did not reveal any record of the accused person admitting to any of the essential elements of the offence. Aciro
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KAMPALA (Reuters) – Scovia Nakawooya’s unborn child died inside her as she struggled to reach a hospital on foot. She died hours later – one of at least seven women in labour to become casualties of Uganda’s coronavirus lockdown, a rights group said. Fearful that the viral pandemic could overwhelm already overburdened hospitals, authorities have
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COMMENT | Primah Kwagala | It is Easter Sunday and there was no church or the hullaballoo of Kampalans running up and about in their Sunday best to fill churches. Not many people have made a fuss about not being able to do that on social media either. Some one has called it a ‘scientific Easter Sunday’.
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In Uganda, for the first time since 2013, more than three people can legally meet without needing to inform the police. Last week, parts of the Public Order Management Act, a law used to gag political opponents, was declared unconstitutional. But most Ugandans are staying away from crowds and keeping at home to control the spread
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Nyapeya, Gulu district, Uganda – Sitting outside her grass-thatched house, in a lush part of the northern Ugandan countryside, Jeanette Aromorach described how her son became a victim of the coronavirus pandemic – even though he had never contracted the pathogen. Stewart Rubamga-Kwo, who was small for his 12 years, had an enlarged spleen and needed
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First, tell us about the Women’s Probono Initiative? The Women’s Probono Initiative is a civil society organisation founded in July 2018 to advance access to justice for women and girls through awareness creation, legal representation, research and knowledge sharing. What informed your decision to found this organisation? I am a first born child from a
Read MoreOur Visions:A just and equitable society where women and girls
are free from all forms of discrimination and violence
Our Mission: To advance gender justice through promoting autonomy,
voice and influence of women and girls in legislation,policy and practice
