Florence Butegwa

Florence Butegwa is a Ugandan human rights lawyer, feminist and women's rights advocate. She has worked extensively on women's human rights, gender equality, political participation and women's access to land and justice. Quotes One of the major issues is violence against women. Women Claim Place on Agenda At UN Human Rights Meeting, The Christian Science Monitor (9 June 1993). The practical difficulty happening here is that the law is adversarial meaning a person has to sue somebody to be able to get redress. SEVEN QUESTIONS: Africa better on gender equality, Daily Monitor (10 September 2011). There can never be a situation of pushing women too much. SEVEN QUESTIONS: Africa better on gender equality, Daily Monitor (10 September 2011). Discrimination against women in the area of land rights can only be eliminated through a transformation process in which the individual African cultures and the guardians of these cultures participate in this change. RIGHTS-AFRICA: Culture and Religion Limit Women's Access to Land, Inter Press Service (April 1998). We have to celebrate because over the last ten years, we have taken these struggles and repositioned them at the centers of power at the national, regional and international levels. Holding on to the Promise: Women's Human Rights, Center for Women's Global Leadership (1995). Category:Women's rights activists Category:Feminists Category:Lawyers from Uganda Category:Women from Uganda