Kaana Foundation for Outreach Programs has organized a workshop on Rape and Gender violence in Fort Portal. So many women are beaten, forced into sex and abused by in many forms by people who are known to them including their own male partners.
Isagara Nyakaana the Director Kaana Foundation for Outreach Programs said during the workshop that Gender-based violence both reflects and reinforces inequities between men and women and compromises the health, dignity, security and autonomy of its victims. It encompasses a wide range of human rights violations, including sexual abuse of children, rape, domestic violence, sexual assault and harassment, trafficking of women and girls and several harmful traditional practices. Any one of these abuses can leave deep psychological scars, damage the health of women and girls in general, including their reproductive and sexual health, and in some instances, results in death.
That abuse of women by intimate partners, marital rape, dowry abuse and murders, partner homicide, psychological abuse, sexual abuse in the workplace, sexual harassment, rape, abuse of women with disabilities are all Gender discrimination
