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1. Uganda: is paying a dowry a bad idea? Does a dowry mean a bride is for sale? Female activists in Uganda want the custom abolished and replaced with unsolicited, non-refundable gifts. Agnes Asiimwe reports from Kampala

Author

Asiimwe, Agnes

Subjects
Uganda -- Social aspects, Women's rights -- Interpretation and construction, Dowry -- Ethical aspects, Forced marriage -- Ethical aspects, Husband and wife -- Laws, regulations and rules, Government regulation, General interest, Government, Business, international
Abstract

You either give me 21 cows or you don't take my daughter away,' an old man told a group gathered outside his homestead in Sironko, eastern Uganda. After a lot [...]

Published
2010

2. Uganda: ready for Commonwealth; The Commonwealth holds its biennial heads of government meeting in Kampala, Uganda, from 23-25 November. Tom Mbakwe and Derek Ingram (an executive committee member of the Commonwealth's Human Rights Initiative), have looked through their crystal balls and seen some tough issues lying in wait for the Kampala meeting

Author

Mbakwe, Tom and Ingram, Derek

Subjects
Uganda -- Social aspects, Commonwealth of Nations -- Conferences, meetings and seminars -- History -- Social aspects, Prime ministers -- Conferences, meetings and seminars -- Social aspects, General interest, Government, Business, international, Social aspects, Conferences, meetings and seminars, History
Abstract

The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM), the highest decision-making body of the 53-member club of mainly former British colonies, is held every two years and brings together Commonwealth leaders [...]

Published
2007

3. The Mountain People revisited: Curtis Abraham went to Ik-land in Uganda and saw how wrong Colin Turnbull, the British-born American anthropologist, was in his 1972 book on the Ik, the mountain people. (Feature: Uganda)

Author

Abraham, Curtis

Subjects
Uganda -- Social aspects, The Mountain People (Book) -- Criticism and interpretation, Ethnography -- Social aspects -- Research, Ethnology -- Uganda -- Research -- Social aspects, General interest, Government, Business, international, Criticism and interpretation, Social aspects, Research
Abstract

On 1 February 1966, Colin M. Turnbull, while among the Ik people of Karamoja, northeast Uganda, wrote a letter to his friend and boss at New York's American Museum of [...]

Published
2002

4. Uganda, DRCongo: there is hope yet

Author

Sisulu, Sheila

Subjects
Congo (Kinshasa) -- Social aspects, Congo (Kinshasa) -- Economic aspects, Uganda -- Social aspects, Uganda -- Economic aspects, Business, international, General interest, Government, United Nations. World Food Programme -- Services
Abstract

Sheila Sisulu, the deputy executive director of the UN World Food Programme (WFP), visited DRCongo and Uganda in March. Here, she tells how the two countries are at a turning [...]

Published
2004

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