Women of Uganda Network

13.09.2004 In order to take advantage of new ICTs that have been developed to combat poverty and achieve sustainable development in Africa, women in Africa need to actively participate in ICT initiatives. The Conference on Women and ICT is to be held at the Arusha International Conference Centre, Arusha, Tanzania on 18-20 October 2004 to draw a roadmap for the caucus that will enable effective participation at WSIS-Tunis 2005.

04.08.2004 The Broadcasting Council of Uganda plans to hold a public meeting on August 5 to elicit comments on its draft National Broadcasting Policy. The council aims to draw a policy framework on various aspects of commercial, community and public broadcasting.

06.07.2004 The Women of Uganda Network, an NGO promoting the use of ICTs by women, has received a grant from Dutch agency Hivos. The funds will be used to support and expand the organisation's activities in spreading the use of ICTs among women.

03.06.2004 Women of the Uganda Network (WOUGNET) participated in the Open Knowledge Network workshop held recently in Nairobi, Kenya. The workshop focused on building a network for content creation and ICT for development activities in East Africa.

26.11.2003 Violence against women violates human rights: Maintaining the momentum ten years after Vienna (1993-2003), November 25 - December 10, 2003. In June of 1993, representatives of nations and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) from around the world gathered in Vienna, Austria for the United Nations World Conference on Human Rights. Women's human rights advocates had worked for two years nationally, regionally and globally to ensure that women's rights were recognized as human rights there and that violence against women was included in the discussion. The resulting document, the Vienna Declaration and Platform of Action signed by 171 states, was historic in its emphasis on the global pervasiveness of gender-based violence and in its compelling appeal to governments and the United Nations to take action to eliminate such violence. Ten years have passed since the adoption of the Vienna Declaration and the DEVAW, and it is time to look at how both the human rights framework and various international initiatives have affected the work being done to end violence against women at the grassroots level.