Ugandan President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has gifted Mamelodi Sundowns goalkeeper and former national team stalwart Denis Onyango with a brand new Pajero Sport car reportedly valued at $52,490 (R738 0094)
Daily Monitor
Tuesday May 11 2021
The Parliament of Uganda recently passed the Excise Duty Amendment Bill, 2021 in which new taxes were introduced. One of such is that requiring users to pay a 12 percent levy on internet bundles. The internet tax levy replaces the Shs200 daily over-the-top tax that many people had started evading through virtual private networks. At a time when businesses are struggling to remain afloat from the effects of Covid-19, employers cutting back on wages and withdrawing benefits, the last thing government should do is front-load citizens with new taxes. The internet tax is particularly going to hurt internet users especially enterprises whose business model rely heavily on the internet. It will slow connectivity and breed a culture of tax evasion as people find creative ways to beat this tax.
Tuesday, May 11, 2021
By World Vision Communications & Advocacy Staff in Uganda
Recognising that violence against children is a global problem, World Vision embarked on all-inclusive five-year-ending violence against children campaign called,
“It Takes A World” (ITAW) The campaign is a bold expression of our intent to promote human transformation, seek justice, and uphold the rights of children. World Vision celebrates the recent passing of two bills that seek to protect children from the most heinous of crimes.
Sexual Offences Bill
On 3 May 2021, the Parliament of Uganda passed the Sexual Offences Bill 2019 which criminalises marriages involving children and other sexual offences against children; such as defilement, child pornography, sexual abuse in schools, and child sex tourism among others. This is the first legislation that fully addresses the issue of child marriage, which is very prevalent in Uganda: One in four girls is married off before her 18th birt
Daily Monitor
Friday May 07 2021
Summary
This year, a 23-year-old university student, she sat with one of those friends, reflecting on their years as teenagers.
Sexual consent pretty much works like that. If it is forced or coerced, it is rape. It has to be emphatic and specific so that there is no second-guessing what has been agreed to; it can be reversed or taken back by its giver at any time.
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Brittany Higgins. She was 24 years old, and had recently started at her dream job, as a political adviser in Australia’s Parliament House.
One evening, she went out for drinks with colleagues and had one too many – not to be unexpected for a 24-year-old.
"The unjust recommendations and clauses in the bill which criminalize same-sex acts and sex work create avenues for further infringement on the rights of persons targeted under the guise of enforcing the law."