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Uganda: 'Make Marital Rape a Crime'
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New Vision (Kampala)
17 July 2008
Posted to the web 18 July 2008
Francis Kagolo
Kampala
The Government should enact laws that can guard women against domestic and gender-based violence including marital rape, women rights' activists have recommended.
Esther Kisakye, a former attorney with FIDA, an organisation of women lawyers, on Wednesday challenged existing laws saying most lacked efficacy in dealing with the "endless" tribulations of women.
"Uganda's laws do not recognise marital rape under the criminal law or family laws yet the vice is increasing," Kisakye, who is also an official at the Uganda Network on Law, Ethics and HIV/AIDS, said.
Marital rape, she explained, occurred mostly where the husband was adulterous and his wife shuns sex for fear of being infected with HIV.
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