rape

Uganda Women’s Network update on Youth Minister’s utterance on Rape

Wednesday, October 9th, 2013 | Tags: rape, Ronald Kibuule, Uganda, UWONET, women
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In the Daily Monitor of 24th September 2013, Youth Affairs Minister Ronald Kibuule went on record with the notion that women dressed indecently have asked to be raped and suspects who have raped such women should be released. To quote the newspaper he said “If she is dressed poorly and is raped, no one should […]

3rd African Feminist Forum: Bella’s ‘story’ from the writing workshop

Friday, October 22nd, 2010 | Tags: AFF, AFF 2010, African, African Feminist Forum, bella, rape, sexual abuse, women, writing, zimbabwe
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One of the skills based workshops which took place yesterday was on ‘Writing, writing, writing’ and one of the exercises that participants took part in was a ’5 minute free non stop writing process’. As part of the learning process a number of volunteers offered to share their stories and we were all blown away. […]