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Find a variety of resources dedicated to Gender Based Violence prevention in Uganda.

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Prevalence

30% of women worldwide have experienced physical and/or sexual intimate partner violence or non partner sexual violence.

Child Sexual Abuse

59% of women in Uganda report sexual abuse in childhood.

IPV

Around 56% of ever married or partnered women in Uganda aged 15 - 49 have experienced physical sexual or emotional violence from their current or most recent spouse or partner.

CHILD MARRIAGE

Approximately 34% of girls in Uganda are married before the age of 18.

Support Survivors

We provide information and training resources to foster bystander intervention.

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Safina Virani

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EXPLORE PEER TO PEER TRAINING

We work with individuals and organizations to implement peer to peer trainings around coverage/language of violence. By design, this sort of trainings create a safe atmosphere for open hearted conversations.

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The Wakiso women

The naked body of 31 year old Faith Komugisha, a scrap dealer was discovered on a Monday morning dumped in a garden behind her house. She had been raped and like many of the other women, a long stick was stuck in her vagina.
Faith Komugisha
At 9 p.m. on the last night of her life, Rose, 27 closed up her small hair salon. She walked home to freshen up and then to a local bar for a late evening beer. A neighbor found her body the next morning, slumped under banana trees in front of her home.
Rose Nakimuli
Mother of four, Jalia's body was missing for more than a month before she was found in a forest. She had left home to oversee her bricklaying business, but never returned. Nalule was the tenth woman to be found dead in Entebbe municipality.
Jalia Nalule