Women of Uganda Network

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.

13.09.2003 The SOS Sudan Association has successfully set up schools to provide uninterrupted education to the children of Sudanese refugees in Uganda. The refugees were so fired with the need for education for children that they set up schools soon upon their arrival in Uganda. These schools teach more than 10,000 children.

09.07.2003 WOUGNET (Women of Uganda Network) has teamed up with InterConnection and the Byte to Byte Technology 4H Club to provide Websites for its members. The Byte to Byte club will design the Websites and InterConnection will provide the Internet hosting services and project management support.

12.06.2003 UNESCO in collaboration with AMARC Africa is organizing a pan-African symposium on Community Multimedia Centres from 12-17 June 2003 in Dakar, Senegal. The aim of this meeting is to find out more about how community radio stations across Africa are using ICTs in order to forge a strategy for larger-scale CMC development in Africa. The first part of this meeting will be a workshop from 12-15 June, bringing together representatives of a selection of community radio stations that are successfully offering some form of public access to ICTs or planning to do so and also ICT-based projects such as community telecentres planning to start community radio as part of their operations.