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New Vision (Kampala) - November 6, 2006
Mariam Nalunkuuma
They said women have successfully struggled for affirmative action but the women movement has lost vibrancy because there is no special funding to gender issues.
Marren Akatsa Bukachi, the executive director of the Eastern African Sub-regional Support Initiative (EASSI) for the advancement of women, told journalists at Speke Hotel in Kampala, "We need a special gender budget to effectively fight for the rights of women."
"The women movement has lost vibrancy and as women achieve positive outcomes such as affirmative action, they correspondingly reduce their efforts at advocating for other gains," Akatsa added.
She said women were still victims of HIV/AIDS, land wrangles, conflicts and poverty, which need to be addressed. She said EASSI was organising a conference on women rights to devise strategies of reinvigorating and re-energising the women's movement in the next decade. It will be held on November 10.
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