opinion By Atuki Turner 25 March 2008 Kampala — THERE are 365 days in one year. Since that time, women have enjoyed the privilege of only one day each year. The rest of the days belong to men and that is why we call it a man’s world. Now that Women’s Day has come and […]
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Interview by Susan Muyiyi 13 September 2008 Kampala — ATUKI Turner is the Executive Director of MIFUMI, a Tororo-based NGO that protects women and children against violence and abuse. She told Susan Muyiyi about her life and organisation. Are you related to Tina Turner, the musician? No. Many people assume that we are related. In fact I even have
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opinion By Atuki Turner 24 September 2008 Refer to your editorial on bride-price (dowry) on September 9. Thank you for highlighting the plight that bride-price (dowry) subjects women to and giving it your editorial that recognises both the significance of addressing the problem as essential to women’s equality and subsequently development. Indeed the situation for
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Opinion By Atuki Turner 11 June 2009 Kampala — The article by Jenn Jagire in The New Vision June 4 raises issues about the role of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in democracy and good governance and how Africans in the diaspora can help or hinder this. First of all, it is insulting for Jenn Jagire to
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opinion By Atuki Turner 1 July 2010 Kampala — Another woman has buried a baby doll! Lillian Apio was detained by Police and has now been released on bond while everyone waits with bated breath to see what the Resident State Attorney will charge her with? Following two miscarriages, and under pressure to deliver, Apio
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The thing that has most shocked the world about Rebecca Cheptegei’s murder is the impunity of the killer. To take a celebrated figure like Cheptegei, just returned from her first Olympics in Paris, still in a celebratory mood, to douse her in petrol and set her alight, feels like a slap in the face. However,
Mary, thirteen-years-old, has been living with her two brothers, aged eleven and nine, in a two-roomed incomplete structure in Mbale where their parents abandoned them 7 years ago when they left for Kenya. The kids have been eking out a living from casual labour, washing clothes and digging for people–schooling has been put off for
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We received a case referred from our Mbale cluster office of a child of 14 years, Janet, who at the time was living with her grandmother when she was tortured by the Uncle. He waited for her by the roadside and hit her on the back with an iron bar for attending a night party.
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17 August 2023 I got out of bed this morning and my right foot made contact with something that was firm but not stone hard. It yielded to my weight and I jumped up and ran across the room on tip toes not wanting my foot to land on it even as a grateful thought
How did MIFUMI’s bride price campaign begin? People usually want to know how something started, how a story began. We did not set out to fight bride price. The struggle against bride price began with a chance remark by my mother, when she looked at me with that keen look in her eyes and said,
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