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Christine Butegwa Quotes

Christine Butegwa is a feminist, writer, entrepreneur, and gender and development activist based in Uganda. She is the author of the book titled, "The Mighty Angwech and More: Female Legends from Ugandan folklore".

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Central to our success is keeping and building new feminist autonomous spaces.

Butegwa says for the rural women, there is still little to celebrate given the high maternal mortality rates due to the poor healthcare system.

We can then use that to advocate for better policies and better implementation of those policies.

She says the women activist should also focus lobbying banks to put in place women-friendly policies on accesing financial credit.

We want to move from policies to ensuring these policies are implemented and to ensuring that governments set budgets to implement the policies on gender-based violence.

She is also concerned that women who dominate the informal sector have not been adequately targeted by government in terms of incentives needed to empower them financially.

Moreover, this sexual violence happens both in conflict and peacetime. In fact, conflict only increases the problem but actually, the root cause is that women's sexuality has been taken as a site for power struggles between men and women.

Africa since independence has been faced with armed conflict in almost all the fifty-three countries. And in that situation, women have endured the worst of that armed conflict in their communities…

She says there has been marked progress in women accessing leadership positions, but these still have to be assessed in terms of their ability to make substantive changes and inputs that will benefit women.

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Christine Butegwa (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.