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Title: | Law Reform and Women's Rights in Uganda |
Author: | Tamale, Sylvia |
Year: | 1993 |
Periodical: | East African Journal of Peace and Human Rights |
Volume: | 1 |
Issue: | 2 |
Pages: | 164-194 |
Language: | English |
Notes: | biblio. refs. |
Geographic terms: | Uganda East Africa |
Subjects: | legal reform women's rights Women's Issues Law, Human Rights and Violence Law, Legal Issues, and Human Rights Equality and Liberation law Law reform legislation |
Abstract: | Women in Uganda suffer discrimination, subordination and oppression on all fronts, despite the fact that Uganda ratified the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) in 1985. The first section of this paper examines the general status of Ugandan women, coupled with a critique of the various legal changes and proposals relating to women promulgated under the NRM (National Resistance Movement) government. It pays attention to the Constitution, marriage law (customary marriage, civil marriage, Muslim marriage), divorce (customary, civil, and Muslim), property and inheritance rights, maintenance, custody, employment, education, health (contraception, termination of pregnancy, female circumcision, cosmetics, AIDS), and penal laws (rape, adultery, infanticide, prostitution, domestic violence). An in-depth examination of the law reform process in Uganda follows in section 2. It examines the obstacles standing in the way of law reform on gender issues. These obstacles are categorized under three subheadings, viz. the law reform procedure, the vehicles of law reform (the official machinery: the Law Reform Commission, the Attorney-General and the Cabinet, the legislature; the unofficial machinery: NGOs, the public, other civil/statutory institutions), and the politics of law reform. Notes, ref. |