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25 Apr

Covid-19 and Domestic Violence:  Four Ways Out of a Double Pandemic, By Nathan Mwesigye Byamukama

As the COVID-19 pandemic rages around the world, women and girls are more vulnerable than ever. With the world staying at home due to the pandemic, we see a rise in sexual and gender based violence including domestic violence. It is a double pandemic for women and girls. Domestic violence keeps exponentially increasing and faster than the COVID – 19 in lockdown families. We need to effectively handle the two pandemics concurrently because the two kill, if not prevented. It is [...]

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Regional Countries urged to do more to combat SGBV

“Sexual and Gender Based Violence is one of the biggest wars that we have today in the Great Lakes Region,” Uganda’s State Minister for Gender and Culture- Peace Mutuuzo told a Regional Symposium on the best practices to combat SGBV in the Great Lakes region on Thursday December 12, 2019. The three days’ symposium at the Speke Resort- Munyonyo, Kampala brought together SGBV experts from all the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) member States as well [...]

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ICGLR-RTF trains Master Trainers on Sexual and Gender Based Violence

(Kampala, Uganda, 2 May 2017) – This week, the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region Regional Training Facility on the Prevention and Suppression of Sexual Violence in the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR-RTF) commences an extensive training programme. The first part of the programme, supported by World Bank and NICHE, entails a one week training from 8 to 12 May 2017: ICGLR-RTF Training of Master Trainers on Sexual and Gender Based Violence (part 1) The 12 selected Master Trainers will complete [...]

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6th Kigali International Conference Declaration (KICD) Annual General Meeting on the role of security organs to end violence against women and girls

The 6th KICD AGM Conference: The annual general meetings are held on rotational basis and during the 5th AGM held in Algeria, it was decided that the 6th AGM will be held in the Republic of Uganda in March, 2017. The Conference was held on the 6th and 7th March 2017.  Preceding the meeting, there was a series of weeklong nationwide activities highlighting efforts in combating Violence Against Women and Girls and culminated into the International Women´s Day on 8th [...]

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Colloquium on Documentation investigation and reporting of sexual violence in the Great Lakes Region

Over 130 Judges, lawyers, the police and military, medical practitioners, social workers, development partners and civil society from all 12 Member States of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) met at Lake Victoria Serena hotel, Kampala, Uganda from 5th to 6th December, 2015 for a regional colloquium on “Documentation, Investigation and Reporting of Sexual Violence in the Great Lakes Region”. The colloquium was convened by the Regional Training Facility (RTF), an institution of the ICGLR, in collaboration [...]

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Sensitization and Training Workshop on “Documentation and Investigation of Sexual Violence Cases in Conflict” that took place at Afrique Suites Hotel, Mutungo, Kampala, on 19-20th September 2016.

A training and sensitization workshop on Documentation and Investigation of Sexual Violence Cases in Conflict for Medical, Judicial, Police and Military officers, Civil Society and Journalists took place at Afrique Suites Hotel from 19-20th September 2016; The opening ceremony was presided over by the State Minister for Gender and Culture, Hon. Peace Mutuuzo, representing the Minister for Gender, Labour and Social Development, Hon. Janat Mukwaya; and was also attended by the British High Commissioner to Uganda H.E Alison Blackburne, the [...]

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