Poverty In Uganda Essay

About 27 per cent of all rural people – some 8 million men, women and children – still live below the national rural poverty line in Uganda. Uganda 's poorest people include hundreds of thousands of smallholder farmers living in remote areas scattered throughout the country. The poorest areas of the country are in the north, where poverty incidence is consistently above 40 per cent and exceeds 60 per cent in many districts. The vast majority of Uganda 's poor rural people live in fragile, dry and sub-humid regions where the variability of rainfall and soil fertility means that farming presents a challenge. Uganda is a source, transit, and destination country for men, women, and children subjected to forced labor and sex trafficking. Ugandan

Widespread grand and petty corruption involving public officials and political patronage systems have also seriously affect the investment climate in Uganda. One of the high corruption risk areas is the public procurement in which non-transparent under-the-table cash payments are often demanded from procurement officers. Torture continues to be a widespread practice amongst security organizations. Attacks on political freedom in the country, including the arrest and beating of opposition members of parliament, have led to international criticism, culminating in May 2005 in a decision by the British government to withhold part of its aid to the country. In 2009, the Ugandan parliament considered an Anti-Homosexuality Bill which would have broadened the criminalization of homosexuality by introducing the death penalty for people who have previous convictions, or are HIV-positive, and engage in same-sex sexual acts. However, in the United States, same-sex marriage has been legal nationwide since June 2015, when the United States Supreme Court ruled in Obergefell v. Hodges that state-level bans on same-sex marriage are unconstitutional. Furthermore, US politics have been less influenced by issues of corruption with a more transparent political system in

The Ministry of Women in Development was established in 1988 to formulate and implement women’s programs and especially to make the public aware of women’s issues. By 1990 eight women held ministerial posts in the government, and the first woman vice president in sub-Saharan Africa, Specioza Wandira Kazibwe, was appointed in 1994. In the early 21st century, women held about one-fourth of the seats in parliament and about one-fourth of the cabinet positions. (Kiwanuka) However in Uganda, women submit to an overall lower social status than men. For many women, this reduces their power to act independently, participate in community life, become educated and escape reliance upon abusive men. The prevalence of female genital mutilation (FGM) is low: according to a 2013 UNICEF report, only 1% of women in Uganda have undergone FGM; and the practice is also illegal in the country. In July 2012, there was Ebola outbreak in the Kibaale District of the country. On 4 October 2012, the Ministry of Health officially declared the end of the Ebola outbreak that killed at least 16 people. Despite women’s advancements, however, substantial inequalities remain in USA. Women in the United States are paid only 77 cents for every dollar a man makes. The pay gap is even larger for women of color. They also face challenges on health issues, as 2012 saw continued