Women Demand Changes in Uganda
Activist Ingrid Turinawe, speaking of the women's ordeal
Jan 25, 2010 - In this week’s podcast you will hear about the arrest of women politicians following their protest calling for Electoral Reforms in Uganda.
Women from various political parties under the banner of “Women For Peace Coalition ” staged a peaceful demonstration at the electoral Commission headquarters in Kampala.
The group of about 30 women were demanding that the head of Uganda’s electoral body, Badiru Kiggundu and his commissioners step down.
They accused them of rigging past elections in favor President Yoweri Museveni who has ruled the East African country for more than two decades now. The demonstration was disrupted by police, who assaulted the women and arrested them, while they pleaded for their right to exercise their dissent ahead of the next elections scheduled for 2011.
