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Every district in Uganda has a woman representative?

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Uganda's Constitutional Court recently nullified a law that made adultery criminal for women, but not men. A group of parliamentarians threatened to pass a law criminalizing adultery for both sexes.

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In Uganda, there are no laws against women owning land in Uganda. The custom of male inheritance in a rural and poor society has resulted in 93% of women being locked out of ownership.

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In Uganda, a bill to tackle issues of polygamy, female genital mutilation, divorce for women and equal inheritance of property for both women and men was opposed by the women?

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Miria Matembe was the minister of Ethics and integrity from 1998 to 2003?
She formulated the Ugandan government’s policy on corruption and helped set standards of ethics for professionals in public office.

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Miria Kalule Obote was Uganda’s first female presidential candidate and is currently the president general of the Uganda Peoples Congress.

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Sarah Ntiiro was the first female to graduate from Makerere University in Uganda?

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Specioza Naigaga Wandera Kazibwe was elected Ugandan Vice-President in 1994. She became the first and only woman in Africa to hold such a position.

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Hon. Anna Makinda is first female Deputy Speaker in Tanzania?

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