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Join Us in Campaigning for a Just Domestic Relations Law
“Join Us in Campaigning for a Just Domestic Relations Law” is a pamphlet that was published in September of 1999 by the Ugandan Women’s Network. The pamphlet outlines the “Domestic Rights Bill,” a bill that was aimed at creating a more equitable legal status for women and in doing so create more stability in the household. Specifically the bill advocated for defining adultery as gender neutral, cementing the age one can consent to marriage at 18 years and recognizing that mental and physiological violence can be considered grounds for divorce.
Election Material
Civic Education Material
Women and the Referedum
“Women and the Referendum” is a booklet that was published in 2000 in lead up to the June 2nd and 3rd referendum in Uganda. The document enumerates the alternatives on the ballot and urges women to take part in the upcoming election. The hand book was geared at aiding civic educators engage women in the political process and also indicates what women’s role in democracy can be and what they have to gain from political participation.
Election Material
Civic Education Material
Women's Demands are Valid for the Development of Uganda and its Plans to Eradicate Poverty
This document lists women’s rights issues and requests that they be considered for the year 2000 Ugandan referendum. The issues include land ownership, physical abuse, and the formation of an equal opportunities commission that will redress the historical and cultural injustices that have truncated women’s prosperity in Uganda. Also included is a section that lists the legal claims women have under that constitution. This includes a provision that dismisses sex based discrimination.
Publication
Report/Paper
Democracy, Economy and Gender In Uganda: A Report of a National Sample Survey
In the run-up to Uganda's referendum of June 2000, a national survey was conducted of a representative cross-section of 2271 adult Ugandan citizens. The survey covered all four regions of the country (northern, eastern, central and western), including 36 of the 45 administrative districts. The purpose of the survey was to assess popular attitudes to democracy, economy, civil society and gender.
October 05, 2000
News & Updates
Interview/Speech/Testimony
CEDAW Anniversary: Supporting Free Participation of Women in Tunisia
Discrimination against women in Tunisia has to do first with the different treatment of men and women in the legal code, but also with their different treatment in broader society. Khameyel Fenniche, IFES program associate in Tunisia, talks about the shifting roles of women in the country.
Publication
Report/Paper
Uganda: A Pre-election Assessment Report
This 1995 pre-election assessment in Uganda was conducted under core funding from the US Agency for International Development (USAID). This report evaluates a number of factors affecting the conduct of that country's presidential and parliamentary elections, which were held prior to the second week of July 1996.
January 16, 1996
News & Updates
Feature
Selma Votes in Tunisia
As part of an effort to enfranchise illiterate women residing in rural areas to hold their government accountable, IFES partnered with USAID and the Tunisian Mediterranean Center to train and deploy women ambassadors in governorates with the highest illiteracy rates. These civic education ambassadors then encouraged women like Selma Sbissi, featured in a USAID video, to register and vote in the 2018 municipal elections.
News & Updates
Feature
IFES Holds Its First Voter Education Film Festival
IFES held a Voter Education Film Festival to share best practices, gather examples from around the world and create a video repository for IFES teams to use and refer back to.
News & Updates
Feature
Photo Gallery: IFES 2016 Photography Contest Winner and Finalists
An image of a person with a disability in India on his way to vote with the assistance of his son was selected as the Grand Prize winner in the International Foundation for Electoral Systems’ (IFES) 2016 Photography Contest. A photo of eager citizens in queue to obtain their citizenship cards and enroll on the Election Commission of Nepal's voter register at a mobile camp in Kailali district, Nepal was selected as the IFES Choice winner of the Photography Contest.
News & Updates
Feature
Mobilizing Rural Women for Tunisia's Municipal Elections
IFES partnered with the Tunisian Mediterranean Center to train and deploy women ambassadors in Tunisians governorates with the highest illiteracy rates to encourage women to register and vote in the May 6, 2018, municipal elections and provided them with information on registration and voting procedures.