The Mifumi Project

"By the time a women reports a domestic violence case, she has been beaten on average 35 times by her husband."

1. A country research by the United Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA, July 2002: Gender Violence), reveals that gender violence is common and appears to have escalated as of the 1990s.

2. In August 2003, Human Rights Watch published a report over the increase in cases of new infection with HIV in Uganda linked to domestic violence and rape (Human Rights Watch, Just Die Quietly Domestic Violence and Women's Vulnerability to HIV in Uganda; August 13, 2004).

3. Despite the fact that Uganda is a signatory to the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Convention on the Elimination of All forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) and the UN Beijing Declaration, the government has not yet done enough to protect the rights of the marginalized, especially women and children. The Domestic Relations Bill (DBR) has been under amendment through various regimens since the 1980s, it has not yet been enacted.

4. A 1999 UNICEF survey (State of World Children, 2000) of 16 countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America revealed Uganda as having the highest incidence of domestic violence.

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