TITLE: CELEBRATING THE 2023 WOMEN’S DAY: UNRAVELLING AND COUNTERING BACKLASH AGAINST GENDER JUSTICE IN UGANDA
Summary:
While it is right and fitting to celebrate this year’s Women Day, it is also important to understand the politics defining how the gains made by women are understood and appreciated, while being insidiously countered at the same time. There is need for a conversation about a backlash against gender justice that is unravelling in our eyes. More needs to be done to sustain gender justice agendas in the journey ahead. Voices in countering backlash must be intentional, strategic, enduring and needs support from all well-intentioned Ugandans – and this should be the agenda of this Women’s Day of 2023.
