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 For over twenty years, North and North Eastern Uganda experinced war and several forms of conflicts that had adverse effect on the livelihood of the population especially women. There were human rights violations, massive and forced displacement of the population, abductions of women and children and general collapse of the economy in the region. The government of Uganda responded to these challenges by launching the Peace, Recovery and Development Plan (PRDP) for North & North Eastern Uganda whose full implementation commenced in July 2009.
While recognising the governments' initiative as positive and timely Isis-WICCE championed the review of the PRDP framework from a gender and women's rights perspective where weakness related to gender equality and sensitivity to women's rights as well as responsiveness were cited. A collective effort was undertaken with the women's movement to ensure that deliberate steps are taken to include women's needs, interests and rights during implementation of the PRDP. [+] |
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 Following the brutal arrest of 33 women belonging to opposition parties under the Inter-Party Cooperation (IPC) who marched to the EC office to demand for the resignation of Commission Chairman Eng. Badru Kiggundu and his fellow commissioners on 18th January 2010. The Women Activists in Uganda have condemned the brutal arrest which they have termed as appalling and inhuman police brutality against peaceful female demonstration. [+] |
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 Isis-WICCE and Urgent Action Fund-Africa have convened a three days international conference in Nairobi, Kenya beginning 7th December 2009 to share and highlight the potential and capacity of women living positively with HIV/AIDS in conflict and post conflict settings in taking lead in transforming themselves when money and resources are directly given to them. The conference is a result of a two years project that the two organisations have been carrying out in Uganda, Zimbabwe and Liberia to address the intersection between conflict, Gender Based Violence and HIV/AIDS. [+]
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African women’s organizations have an opportunity, as part of commemorating 15 years since the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (BPfA) of 1995, to mobilize at the national, sub regional, and regional levels in order to hold their governments accountable for commitments made to women’s rights including those in the BPfA, the African Union Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa, CEDAW (which was adopted 30 years ago in 1979)) and the Millennium Declaration and Goals. African women’s organizations and individual activists also have the opportunity to strategize on the role they can play at the national and regional level going forward to truly advance women’s access to and enjoyment of human rights over the next five years. Full Report |
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Kathmandu, Nepal, 25th Nov. 2009  On the day of launching the 16 days of Activism on Violence Against Women for the year 2009, Isis-WICCE joined WOREC to celebrate the day in Kathmandu on organised programmes that reflected incidences of violence against women. The activities also included participating in activities and programmes that are being initiated by policy makers to prevent and end violence against women. [+]
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