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UPC Advocates For The
Reproductive Rights Of Ladies
Serving In The Army

UPC: James Rwanyarare

THE Uganda Peoples Congress(upc), has asked that a provision
in the Uganda People’s Defence Forces Bill 2003, that
dictates how and when ladies who join the army can have
children, be changed.

The bill, currently before Parliament stipulates in clause
65 (2), that no female officer of the UPDF is to get
pregnant within the 4 years of enrollment. It says ladies in
the army are only allowed to get pregnant after 4 years of
their enrollment. Even then, they can only have children
after intervals of not less than three years.
Failure to adhere to this rule results into dismissal from
the UPDF.

Dr James Rwanyarare of the UPC, says this provision is not
balanced since it only favours men and takes no consideration
of the ladies at all.
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Tuesday, 6th January, 2004



Uganda Lady MPs placed number 25th

By Denis Ocwich

CERTAINLY, it is not yet time for “uhuru” for Ugandan
women and they cannot cry foul either. An international
ranking of ladies in national parliaments has placed
Uganda in the 25th slot among 181 countries.

With a population of 24.7m people, Uganda has 75 (24.7%),
female MPs out of the 304-strong House.

The statistics released late last year, compared 181
countries worldwide and ranked them in descending order of
the percentage of women in Parliament. Its compiled by the
Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), a Geneva-based
international organisation bringing together parliaments of
sovereign states.

Interestingly, Uganda – which in the previous 6th Parliament
(1996-2001) had only 50 women MPs (18.1%) out of 276
members – beat both United Kingdom(49th) and
the United States of America(59th).

Rwanda scoops the first position. After last year’s
elections, Rwandese ladies now comprise 48.8%
(39 seats) out of the 80 MPs in the Lower House.
A long leap considering that in the previous elections,
ladoes accounted for only 25.7% .

Mozambique (14th), South Africa (15th), Seychelles
(16th) and Namibia (20th) lie ahead of Uganda. Tanzania
and Kenya all fall behind Uganda, in the 30th and 99th
place respectively.

“The world average of ladies’s participation in
politics is now 15.2%, one of the highest ever,” says the IPU.

“Whether this change translates into a change in the
traditional expectations of ladies remains to be seen.”

N.V - Tuesday, 13th January, 2004


They said it:

On Marriage -
“Western marriages do not last because wives are
not submissive to their husbands, and these are the issues that
the Domestic Relations Bill wants to import here,”
- Sheik Ramathan Mubajje, Mufti of Uganda,
speaking at an Islamic seminar in Masaka.


"...in my hand" -
“I receive communion in Anglican and Catholic Churches. The
difference is that when I go to Catholic Churches, they put
the Eucharist in my hand. What is the difference, anyway,
when we profess the Catholic Church in our prayers,”
- Ethics State Minister, Tim Lwanga, explaining his action to
receive Eucharist in a Catholic Church when he is an Anglican.

N.V - Wednesday, 14th January, 2004		 *please read about the eucharist

eucharist "...in my hands"
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