Traditionally, both men and women, or boys and girls for that matter, fetch water. If we are to ask ourselves, is gender sensitivity about the head carrying vs hand carrying or pot vs jerry can?
A few weeks a ago, I was visiting my rural village and came across a young boy and girl coming from a well. The boy was carrying his 5 litre jerry can in his hands...

Anti-gay Pastor Martin Ssempa will be spearheading a million-man march on 17 February, in support of the proposed Anti Homosexuality Bill -- an event he says will give Ugandans a chance to show how they feel about homosexuality. Ssempa maintains that homosexuality is illegal, breaks the laws of God and that it breaks the laws of nature which stipulate that a male goes with a female.

Women of Uganda Network with support from the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation ACP–EU (CTA), holds a bi-annual event called the Lango Forum on e-agriculture. This event is held twice times in a year in Apac District, Northern Uganda. This year the third Lango forum on e–agriculture will be held on the 18th February 2010.

I have traveled to almost all parts of Uganda but never have I seen a rural area which has basic needs for a normal living like Wainah Village in Mayuge District, in Busoga Region. What I call basic needs for a normal living are shelter, clothing, good roads, safe water, schools, hospitals or health centres and not forgetting about enough food. People in Wainah can either afford or have them by just the fact that they are located in the right place.

UGANDA: Following this year’s theme for Worlds Aids day, which calls for Universal Access and Human Rights, Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG) has demanded non discriminatory HIV and Aids approaches to health care for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex (LGBTI) people in Uganda.
 
“LGBTI people living with HIV and Aids have been victims of human rights violations based on their sexual orientation, and this is a battle yet

I (Rose) attentively sit in an English lesson; quietly and attentively continue to listen to my teacher, however feeling that someone is looking at me. I become completely interrupted and I turn around only to see girls observing me and my twin sister Joyce. My classmate inquires “Hmm!! Rose are you a real human being, spirits or ghosts?” My classmate inquires “Hmm!! Rose are you a real human being, spirits or ghosts?” Perturbed by the question...

Nora Nabanoba (not her real names) walked into my office, greeted me in a local language, and asked me how we help women. She narrated the story of how she came to Kampala. “I finished primary seven and because my parents were poor, I could not afford to join secondary school. Our neighbour had a daughter who was working in Kampala and she decided to take me to look for work in Kampala.

Uganda woke up to a surprise with one of its former Army Commanders and a major-general murdered by a lover in Namuwongo, a suburb in Kampala. The death of the general attracted many headlines in the mainstream media, such as “General dies in ‘Kandaha’,” “a lion killed by a rat!” Name it… The lady who confessed to the crime in self-defence, was first charged with the crime of manslaughter, but has now been remanded in prison with charges of murder.

Member organizations of the National Association of Women NGO’s of Uganda (NAWOU) gathered at the Namirembe Guest House on 5th November 2009 ,to discuss a draft of an East African protocol on gender equality. The East African declaration on Gender Equality (EADGE) is an initiative of the Eastern African Sub-Regional Initiative for the Advancement of Women to transform gender relations in the East African Community and its member states.

In Masaka District, Kako Samalien parish, the coffee is drying. What is surprising is that when this coffee dries it follows a straight line. At one time it looked like it was decreasing, then the coffee started drying again. So what we have been doing for this problem is that we cut, burn and burn the infected coffee. The tools we use like the pangas we use, we also burn them. We worry that our income will decrease since we depend on coffee.

In Uganda, many people are advancing because of education while others are being left behind because they are illiterate and have no access to education. Education is an important element in the wellbeing of all communities in Uganda and the rest of the world. In its technical sense, education is the process by which society transmits its accumulated knowledge, skills and values

On 28th October 2009, yet another Information and communication Technology and Citizen Journalism Africa capacity building workshops ended at Crater Valley Kibale Resort Beach in Kabarole District, which is about twenty three Kilometers from Fort-Portal Town in the Western Uganda. In the age of technological advancement, more rural women need to be exposed to...