Rome, Italy | AFP | The suicide of a woman who battled for months to have a video of her having sex removed from the internet is fuelling debate in Italy on the “right to be forgotten” online. The 31-year-old, identified as Tiziana, was found hanged at her aunt’s home …
Read More »WHO: Safe sex for 6 months after visting Zika-hit areas
Geneva, Switzerland | AFP | The World Health Organization on Tuesday toughened its advice on preventing the spread of Zika, saying anyone returning from areas hit by the virus should practise safe sex for six months afterwards. The updated guidelines mean the UN health body’s recommendations regarding sexual transmission are …
Read More »VIDEO: MPs want action on Greenhill Academy over Sexually material
NBS: Primary Education state minister Rosemary Sseninde says the ministry will deliver a report to parliament on what action will be taken against the management of Green hill academy after books containing sexual explicit content were confiscated. This as MPs faulted the ministry for failing in its supervision role as …
Read More »MAK Convocation speaks out on sex-for-marks at Makerere University
NBS: The Makerere University Convocation has broken its silence on the alleged sexual harassment of female students by the academic staff saying it is an aspect of negligence of the university policies. These have given the university one week to pronounce it’s self on the different sex related cases that …
Read More »Tanzanian UN troops face paternity claims after alleged sex abuse
United Nations, United States | AFP Eleven girls and women from the Democratic Republic of Congo claim they became pregnant as a result of sexual abuse by Tanzanian troops serving in the UN peace mission there, the UN said Tuesday. “Seven of the alleged victims have already given birth and …
Read More »Sex, cars and lawyers
By Catherine K. Nabasirye Some lessons from the recently decided Nsenga case Sex can change everything. Jackline Uwera Nsenga, 36, was on 23 September 2014 convicted and sentenced to 20 years in prison for the murder of her husband Juvenal Nsenga, 48. According to the trial judge His Lordship Duncan …
Read More »The economic consequences of sex
By Mukesh Eswaran Myriad human interactions produce practices that perpetuate a sexual hierarchy of wellbeing Until recently, there has been very little analysis of women’s role in the economy. Two centuries ago, Mary Wollstonecraft published her proto-feminist A Vindication of the Rights of Women, and in 1869 John Stuart Mill, …
Read More »Uganda’s contradictory sex sensibilities
By Linda Besigiroha Punishing girls for traditions we celebrate one moment and then overlook when we are wearing the judgmental robes Ugandans like to see things in black and white. That’s not a fair assumption though – so I will correct myself and say many people like to see things …
Read More »The link between sex and politics
By Andrew M.Mwenda Understanding the popularity of Museveni and Besigye through evolutionary science To understand the incentives that drive citizens who vote and the politicians who seek their votes, we may need to appreciate the lessons of evolutionary psychology especially in regard to male-female sexual relations. (I am sorry for …
Read More »Sex and the girls
By Sarah Namulondo An expert view on why Uganda’s HIV/AIDS has a female face If your daughter is 15 years old, there is a 14% chance that she has already had sex. In fact, if she has had sex, there is a 51% chance that she has had it this …
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