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KAMPALA – Ugandan women activists on Wednesday gathered in the capital demonstrating against “continued harassment of women and girls considered indecently dressed in public places”.

The recently signed bill into law – Anti-pornography act is in bad taste as it has led to attacks and violence against women in public places.

, Executive Director at Centre for Domestic Violence Prevention ,Ms Tina Musuya said the bill which was recently assented to has led to men assaulting and undressing women as well as ripping them of dignity while at the same time rendering public places unsafe for them.

There has been a lot of media reports on violence against women in Uganda lately and calls are being made to bring this to an end.

Former Ethics and Integrity Minister Miria Matembe said members of the Coalition of the End the Mini Skirt harassment together with other women activists are Considering to move of a vote of no confidence against the Minister of Ethics and Integrity, Fr. Simon Lokodo.

“This whole idea is absurd. I don’t condone indecency or do I condone pornography but this law cannot be used as a pretext to cure the moral decadence and ethical degeneration in this country,” she said.

Matembe described the law as misplaced and has called for the cabinet and the Ugandan parliament to recall it once and for all.

“It’s high time we as women move a vote of no confidence, this is the opportune time for us to get a woman president. As for the parliament, we demand that the law be withdrawn,” said Matembe.

Politicians has been urged to stop using culture and religion to make backward populist laws.

“My biggest disappointment is that 33 per cent of that parliament is constituted of women and they were able to subscribe and pass a law whose definition of pornography is so vague that it talks about representing one’s sexual parts for primarily exciting people.”

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