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Center for Basic Research (CBR)

Centre for Basic Research (CBR), is a leading independent research Centre in Uganda, established in 1987 an educational trust and subsequently registered in 1988 as an NGO. CBR is a member institute of the Council for the Development of Social Research in Africa (CODESRIA) based in Dakar, Senegal. The broad aim of CBR is to conduct research on issues of basic social significance.

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Countering Backlash Working Paper
Published 2024
Countering Backlash: Reclaiming Gender Justice in Uganda
Josephine Ahikire, Amon Ashaba Mwiine

This report engages with the following questions that have been explored over a period of four years: What is backlash? What is the origin, nature and motive of gender backlash? What drives gender backlash? […]

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Voice, Research, Uganda
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IDS Bulletin
Published 2024
Understanding Gender Backlash: Southern Perspectives

The 30th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action in 1995, and the 10th anniversary of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), are fast approaching. And with global progress on gender justice being attacked around the world, we must […]

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Patriarchy, Policy, Voice, Research, Bangladesh, Brazil, India, Kenya, Lebanon, Uganda
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Working Paper
Published 2023
Unravelling Backlash in the Journey of Legislating Sexual Offences in Uganda
Amon Ashaba Mwiine, Josephine Ahikire, Jovah Katushabe, Harriet Pamara, Aklam Amanya

This paper interrogates the reality of gender backlash in Uganda by tracing the process of legislating on the 2019 Sexual Offences Bill (SOB). We trace the early beginnings of the Bill by highlighting the motivation that guided the framing of the Bill, the role of individual actors and alliances in pushing for the gender equity reform, and the oppositional forces against the reform. Working with participatory forms of qualitative research methods, the focus on the legislative cycle of the SOB as a policy case aimed to enable us to understand what constitutes backlash, and its drivers and manifestations. […]

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Policy, Research, Uganda

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January 19, 2023
Countering gender backlash in Uganda’s infamous Sexual Offences Bill
Amon Ashaba Mwiine, Josephine Ahikire

Uganda has registered significant steps in promoting gender justice, equality and women’s rights in recent years. Considerable progress has been seen in women’s collective advocacy for strengthening rights in marriage, inheritance of family property and political participation since independence.   […]

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Policy, Research, Uganda
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September 17, 2020
The struggle for gender justice in Uganda
Amon Ashaba Mwiine

There are different critical junctures in Uganda’s history from which debates on gender justice, equality and women’s rights can be traced. One of these significant moments is the “guerrilla bush war” led by Yoweri Museveni between 1981-85. Many women participated […]

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