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EU Commends Uganda On Gender Equality

EU Commends Uganda On Gender Equality

by The Daily Eye Team July 7 2015, 3:58 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 43 secs

THE EU head of delegation H.E Ambassador Kristian Schmidt has hailed Uganda government for the effort it has put in place to enhance gender equality and the empowerment of women. “The EU is investing $578m for the next six year program with UN Women to support gender empowerment and equality related issues,” revealed Schmidt.  “How will Karamoja ever develop, unless – as today’s report advocates – we put gender equality and women’s empowerment as a key objective?” “Progress in observing women’s rights are being made in some poor countries like Uganda,” added H.E Schmidt. “At this point, I congratulate Uganda for receiving the AU award for progress in realizing gender equality and women’s rights in Africa.”

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Former Director Ideation at Zee Network, filmmaker and writer Vinta Nanda is the editor of The Daily Eye, and has recently directed a feature-length documentary on feminism in India titled #SHOUT. Vinta produced, directed and wrote television serials including Tara, Raahein, Raahat, Aur Phir Ek Din and Miilee. Her film, White Noise (2004), was screened at international film festivals. Her Edutainment work includes the serials Sheila and Kasbah, feature film Anant, and Documentary, The Distant Thunder and she led The Third Eye program from 2013 to 2018 in partnership with Hollywood Health and Society, Norman Lear Center, USC Annenberg, supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which built platforms for interactions  between creative communities and specialists, experts, social scientists and activists to initiate the idea of conscious storytelling.


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