Uganda’s women, girls seek justice to halt sexual violence: rights group

By Kieran Guilbert LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Tackling an “epidemic” of sexual violence in Uganda, in which disabled women and girls are most vulnerable to abuse, and seeking justice for the victims are at the heart of a campaign launched by the rights group Equality Now on Thursday. The #justiceforgirls initiative will enable women and girls who suffer sexual violence to pursue justice through local channels, avoiding the slow, complex and expensive process of taking a case to court, Equality Now said. Victims have a “bleak prospect of accessing justice for such atrocious crimes”, said the group’s legal consultant, Kimberly Brown. Uganda is in the midst of a sexual violence epidemic, and most perpetrators go unpunished, the rights group said.
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