Do more for Uganda’s suffering women – Judiciary urged
Meanwhile, the chairperson of Uganda Women Parliamentary Association (UWOPA) also Tororo district woman MP Sarah Opendi has decried the unregulated sex trade in cities and towns especially Kampala.
Mokono district woman MP Hanifa Nabukeera has challenged the Judiciary to provide Pro-bono services to girls and women victims of rape and defilement.
Nabukeera made the request at a dialogue organized by the Equal Opportunities Commission on issues of discrimination, marginalization and exclusion against women and girls held at Kingdom mall in Kampala Thursday.
She says that there are so many unprivileged girls and women who have been disassociated from society due to defilement and rape.
“I urge the judiciary to also provide legal aid clinics to benefit victims of rape and defilement because when they report to the police, cases are modified by the officers while those that make it to court often delay being heard and determined,” she noted.
Adding that many elderly women failed to find justice when raped with cases stopping at LC level.
“I, therefore, urge the Judiciary to get to the ground and curb problems that are affecting girls and women,” she implored.
Meanwhile, the chairperson of Uganda Women Parliamentary Association (UWOPA) also Tororo district woman MP Sarah Opendi has decried the unregulated sex trade in cities and towns, especially Kampala.
A visibly irritated Opendi appealed to the communities and leaders to be on the lookout for those who promote the sex trade.
“(Perpetrators) rent premises and hold girls and women hostage, with the victims having no access to help,” she said, adding that this practice should be fought so that it doesn’t spread to other districts.
The chairperson of the Equal Opportunities Commission Hajjat Sofia Nalule Juuko also expressed concern over a number of issues that continue to affect women socially, economically and politically in the environment that surrounds them (women) including climate change and technological advancement.
“Article 36 of the Constitution provides for non -discrimination based on gender and sex and the EOC Act 2007 sets out the commission as the institutional mechanism for affirmative action and non-discrimination” she observed.
