Unravelling and Countering Backlash: Uganda’s Sexual Offences Legislation
dc.contributor.author | Mwiine, Amon Ashaba | |
dc.contributor.author | Ahikire, Josephine | |
dc.coverage.spatial | Uganda | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2024-02-26T21:22:10Z | |
dc.date.available | 2024-02-26T21:22:10Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2024-02-26 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Mwiine, A.A. and Ahikire, J. (2024) 'Unravelling and Countering Backlash: Uganda’s Sexual Offences Legislation', IDS Bulletin 55.1: 129–140, DOI: 10.19088/1968-2024.111 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 1759-5436 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/18245 | |
dc.description.abstract | Considerable progress has been seen in Ugandan women’s collective advocacy for their rights since independence. Notably, women activists’ efforts in the early 1990s culminated in the institutionalisation of gender equality in Uganda’s constitution and a subsequent resurgence of the women’s movement. Despite these efforts, certain egalitarian and inclusive policy reforms have been postponed, stripped of clauses that question patriarchal power, watered down, bureaucratically frustrated, or outrightly rejected. This article draws on ongoing contestations around the stalled Sexual Offences Bill, 2019 to address the following questions: How do we understand the current and recent swell of anti-feminist backlash? What motivates backlash against gender equity reforms? And what will it take to counter these oppositional forces? The article reveals overt and covert forms of backlash in the sexual offences legislative process, the ways in which gender justice actors countered these, and the implications for understanding and countering backlash in Uganda and beyond. | en |
dc.description.sponsorship | Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | Institute of Development Studies | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | IDS Bulletin;55.1 | |
dc.rights | This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC BY), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original authors and source are credited and any modifications or adaptations are indicated. | en |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en |
dc.subject | Gender | en |
dc.subject | Politics and Power | en |
dc.subject | Sexuality and Development | en |
dc.title | Unravelling and Countering Backlash: Uganda’s Sexual Offences Legislation | en |
dc.type | Article | en |
dc.rights.holder | Institute of Development Studies | en |
dc.identifier.team | Power and Popular Politics | en |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.19088/1968-2024.111 | |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2024-02-26 | |
rioxxterms.funder | Default funder | en |
rioxxterms.identifier.project | Default project | en |
rioxxterms.version | VoR | en |
rioxxterms.versionofrecord | 10.19088/1968-2024.111 | en |
rioxxterms.funder.project | e4b8632d-62dd-4f31-9936-43860ac26f9a | en |
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