KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — More than 100 women die during childbirth each week in Uganda, a heartbreaking statistic that has energized activists to go to the Supreme Court in a bid to force the government ...

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) – Advertisements pinned on the walls of shopping malls in Uganda’s capital promise young women a free ticket to a well-paying job in Malaysia as a nanny, maid or bartender.

KAMPALA, Uganda More women are initiating divorces in Uganda, a conservative East African country where women are becoming empowered to leave a bad marriage in a way their mothers could not, rights ...

On January 15, Ugandans will elect a new president and members of parliament. DW breaks down presidential candidates, key ...

The First Lady and Minister of Education, Mrs Janet K. Museveni, has called on Ugandan women to unite behind the National Resistance Movement (NRM) and President Museveni as the country heads into the ...

Safina Namukwaya with her twins at Women’s Hospital International and Fertility Center Kampala A Ugandan woman who made headlines after welcoming twins via in vitro fertilization (IVF) at 70 is taking ...

Betty Bigombe plowed her own path as a mediator between two men at war. Her bodyguards addressed her as "Sir," but it was her womanly nurturing side, her wiles and selfless sacrifices that took her ...

On the surface, it seems like a fine idea; reproductive-rights groups certainly think so. In July the Ugandan government announced that, using cash from the U.N. Population Fund, it would distribute ...

JINJA, Uganda (Reuters) -Wearing floor-length dresses and wrap-around skirts, the group of elderly women giggle and tease each other as they jog in pairs, hand in hand, across a playing field in ...

KAMPALA, Uganda, November 30 (UNHCR) - As a Ugandan police detective, Gladys Friday has taken reports of "painful cases of violence" against women almost every day, but she was never sure how best to ...