Uganda, March 9 -- Uganda has registered tremendous success in uplifting the standards of women over the past 37 years of the National Resistance Movement (NRM). This has been achieved through multifaceted approaches.

In 1995, the Government of Uganda domesticated the 1979 UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). It then introduced the National Equal Opportunities Policy 2006, the National Gender Policy 2007, and the amendments of the Customary Marriage Act, which legalised customary marriages in the country.

The Customary Marriage Act recognises the legality of traditional marriages in Uganda and has played a great role in the empowering Ugandan women by according legal rights and protectio...