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1. The origins and consequences of Uganda's brutal homophobia

Author

Seo, Hyeon-Jae

Subjects
Uganda -- Social aspects, Social economics -- Analysis -- Social aspects -- Political aspects, Homosexuality -- Analysis -- Social aspects -- Political aspects, Homophobia -- Analysis -- Social aspects -- Political aspects, Gays -- Political aspects -- Social aspects -- Analysis, Business, Economics, Law, Political science
Abstract

When David Bahati introduced the Anti-Homosexuality Bill in Uganda's Parliament in 2009, the Western world descended upon the country in a frenzy, attempting to understand Uganda's intolerance of gay people. [...]

Published
2017

2. The impact of education on subjective discount rate in Ugandan villages

Author

Bauer, Michal and Chytilova, Julie

Subjects
Uganda -- Economic aspects, Uganda -- Social aspects, Discount rates -- Analysis, Education -- Uganda, Education -- Influence, Personal finance -- Analysis, Villages -- Economic aspects, Villages -- Social aspects, Business, Economics, Social sciences
Published
2010

3. North Uganda what war? What future?

Author

Giovanello, Helen M.

Subjects
Uganda -- Military aspects, Uganda -- Economic aspects, Uganda -- Social aspects, Arts, visual and performing, Business, Publishing industry
Abstract

Government's attitude towards the nineteen year old complex War between the rebels of the Lord Resistance Army (LRA) and the Uganda Peoples Defense Force (UPDF) is quiet ambiguous, funded by the Unites states for defense and international, seems to favor some people. The real war there is, to survive, with alarming emergence of suicide, high alcoholism, growing AIDS rate, aid supplies not reaching the needy, and children in particular exposed to all the uncertainties seem to have no future.

Published
2005

4. In Uganda, a focus on practical knowledge boosts literacy efforts

Subjects
Uganda -- Social aspects, Uganda -- Economic aspects, Uganda -- Health aspects, Literacy programs -- Social aspects, Business, Business, international
Abstract

The Uganda Program of Literacy for Transformation (UPLIFT) helps participants acquire the skills, knowledge, and incentive for a 'lifelong self-improvement plan'--coupled with an emphasis on moral education and interreligious harmony. [...]

Published
2004

5. The dance in the night-time; Hip-hop in Uganda

Subjects
Uganda -- Social aspects, Break dancing, Business, Economics, Business, international
Abstract

Breakin' out of Africa The operatic intensity of streetdancing IN A dingy, garage-sized dance studio behind the national theatre in Kampala, Uganda's capital, a dance troupe called Tabu-Flo is hard [...]

Published
2011

6. Goali?1/2s achieved

Author

Hinks, Gavin

Subjects
Uganda -- Social aspects, Non-governmental organizations -- Officials and employees -- Social aspects, Auditors -- Practice -- Social aspects, Banking, finance and accounting industries, Business, Business, international
Abstract

Byline: Gavin Hinks Goal's achieved It seems strange to be sitting in a remote part of Africa discussing audit, but that's exactly what John Shehan, compliance with Irish NGO GOAL, [...]

Published
2008

7. Republic of Uganda

Subjects
Uganda -- History, Uganda -- Political aspects, Uganda -- Social aspects, Family -- Social aspects, Manners and customs, Business, Health, Health care industry
Abstract

BACKGROUND Land and Climate. Known as the Pearl of Africa, Uganda covers 91,135 square miles (236,040 square kilometers); it is about the same size as Oregon. About one-fourth of the [...]

Published
2003

8. Information gap failing rural women's emancipation in Uganda/Le Fosse d'information entrave l'emancipation de la Femme en Ouganda

Author

Mugira, Fredrick

Subjects
Uganda -- Social aspects, Women -- Crimes against, Family violence -- Demographic aspects -- Social aspects, Business, Business, international
Abstract

Jurina Kyomugisha, a Ugandan housewife in Rugyera village of Kashaari Mbarara district spent over a week in jail in Mbarara central prison early July 2008. After she received a court [...]

Published
2008

9. Angola's uneasy peace

Subjects
Uganda -- Social aspects, National Union for the Total Independence of Angola -- Military aspects -- Social aspects, Armistices -- Angola -- Military aspects -- Social aspects, Business, Economics, Business, international, Military aspects, Social aspects
Abstract

NOTHING in Angola is quite what it seems. The pony-tailed white men drinking beer at a beach-side bar in Luanda, the capital, turn out to be South African mercenaries. The [...]

Published
1995

10. Journalists lash out at threats to gag press

Author

Puri, Shamlal

Subjects
Uganda -- Social aspects, Mass media policy -- Social aspects, Business, Literature/writing, Mass communications
Abstract

The Journalist's Association of Uganda (UJA) accused the Ugandan government of Pres Yoweri Kaguta Museveni of curbing press freedom by introducing the Mass Media and Journalists Bill 1994. If the Bill is approved, then a Media Council will be established to register newspapers and issue licenses for journalists, along with providing the government with information on printers and editors. The UJA proposed their version of a Bill which would grant independence to journalists and give the government enough powers to prevent the media from being unfair.

Published
1994

11. The killer in the aid bag

Subjects
Somalia -- Social aspects, Uganda -- Social aspects, Ethiopia -- Social aspects, East Africa -- Social aspects, Infants, Food supply, Refugees, African -- Social aspects, Developing countries -- Social aspects, Food relief, Business, Business, international, Economics, United Nations -- Social policy
Abstract

In Ethiopia, Somalia and Uganda the cycle of outside food relief has become an ingrained part of the social picture. The upheavals from war have left a legacy of inadequate food supply and an upset socio-economic situation. Both HO and Unicef now stress simple cheap health care methods in an attempt to halt the 17m annual infant deaths, low life expectancy, and illiteracy rampant in the world.

Published
1981

12. Uganda, Congo ease tensions

Subjects
Congo (Kinshasa) -- International relations, Congo (Kinshasa) -- Social aspects, Uganda -- International relations, Uganda -- Social aspects, Oil and gas exploration -- Contracts, Contract agreement, Business, Petroleum, energy and mining industries
Abstract

Uganda and Congo (Kinshasa) have agreed to try to reduce tensions around Lake Albert, where a series of shootouts has occurred since oil was discovered on the Ugandan side of [...]

Published
2007

13. World Vision to help orphans

Subjects
Uganda -- Social aspects, AIDS patients -- Family, Orphans -- Services, AIDS (Disease) -- Social aspects, Business, Health care industry, World Bank -- Finance, World Vision -- Donations
Abstract

Uganda World Vision, the Christian international relief and development agency, has teamed with the Ugandan government and the World Bank in a $6.9 million program to improve the lives of [...]

Published
1990

15. Uganda

Subjects
Uganda -- Social aspects, Journalists -- Licensing agreements, Government and the press -- Analysis, Business, Literature/writing, Mass communications
Abstract

Journalists in Uganda organized a campaign to revise the media legislation specified by the Mass Media Bill. This will result in the establishment of a Press Council, a Censorship Board and compulsory yearly licensing for journalists. The government, led by Pres. Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, has stopped official advertising and circulation businesses to increase control over the country's newspapers.

Published
1993

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