Promoting political participation of Indigenous Women

While many Indigenous women share goals for the advancement of their people, theirvoices are often ignored by the Indigenous leadership and male-dominated politicalorganizations. Indigenous women experience a broad, multifaceted and complexspectrum of mutually reinforcing human rights abuses. They are disproportionatelyaffected by systemic discrimination, excluded from local and national politicalprocesses, and the targets of multiple forms […]

COVID-19 and Indigenous Women in Uganda

As the COVID-19 pandemic rages on, calls have been made for continuing analyses ofits impacts on and dynamics among the most vulnerable groups and peoples.Indigenous women have been recognized as one of the groups at heightened risk forCOVID-19 and its many adverse socio-economic and other impacts.The first confirmed case of COVID-19 in Uganda was in […]