This article deals with the background to the inclusion of women's marriage – related rights in the constitution of Uganda, especially the issues around bride wealth, and against that backdrop the author highlights the issues in and the holding of the recent Constitutional Court judgement o 2010-09-03

75% of all domestic violence and abuse cases reported to MIFUMI advice centres closely related to poverty.

This Thursday 8th April 2010, the Inspector General of Police, Major General Kale Kayihura, will unveil and hand over the first ever purpose built domestic violence unit within the Child and Family Protection Unit in the Tororo District Police station.

As Tom Pätz of the German Development Ministry spelled out in the March edition of D+C/E+Z, the Federal Government intends to merge GTZ, DED and InWEnt. Pätz expressed himself in favour of wide public debate. D+C sent five relevant questions to some of our foreign contributors. All a 2010-03-31

MIFUMI is once again ruffling the society’s contented feathers with yet another women rights constitutional petition.

Beyonce has a popular song – If I were a boy. Today on Women’s day you can sing about the things you would do if you were a man.  On this one day allocated to women, out of 365 days in the year,  why not behave today as though you were a man?
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In a bold and brazen effort to change the marital landscape of Uganda, the women's rights NGO, MIFUMI, wants polygamy to be outlawed. A case has r 2010-02-03

Through this new initiative, MIFUMI is tackling complex issues such as fraudulent sale of family land, forceful grabbing of women's property and restriction of women's control and use of land.

Sex is a major component of bride price. Under customary law, the man purchases the unlimited sexual services of the woman. Perhaps to call married women, sex slaves, would be rather extreme but certainly the power associated with the payment of bride price is tangible and particularly in the mar 2009-12-03

MIFUMI, a women’s rights advocacy NGO, recently brought a petition challenging the beloved institution of bride price. The presents, they argued, while enriching the girl’s family, turn the girl into no more than a chattel in her husband’s home or perhaps, a tho 2009-10-07