REFUGEE WOMEN HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS IN UGANDA Responding to cyber Harassment against women
AFA with support from CIPESA convened digital security training for refugee women and native women human rights defenders. The 3 day Digital security training" took place from 25th July to 27th July 2019 in Kampala at Grand Global Hotel. This study session engaged 80 participants from South Sudan, Uganda, Eritrea and Congo. It was a result of the interest expressed by AFA to explore and promote Digital security. In particular, the training aimed at studying what digital security is and how it can be applied in the sphere of social and digital rights 'advocacy, social inclusion and non-formal education among WHRD.
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"Due to the rampant online harassment of women in Uganda, We believe that such a project would considerably benefit our Members, for whom digital literacy and creative approaches to digital activism are vital in their everyday work and long-term development" said Asan Juma, AFA Executive Director.
Sports and community services projects have been tested and proved to bring people from diverse background together in a post conflict setting. These were seen in Liberia, Sierra Leone among other nations that have grown from war. There, the Project aims to empower young girls to use sport in changing their communities. Girls sport team will be used to compete among each other during community mobilization processes. Girls are so long been ignored in the conflict, so using girls teams will give as an advantage of pulling the boys around the areas where the competition will be run.