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Daily Monitor Wednesday May 05 2021 According to the proposed law, sexual offenders face a Shs40m fine and their data will be shared with Nira. PHOTO/COURTESY Summary Green light: Members of Parliament on Monday passed the Sexual Offences Bill, 2019, which if signed into law by the President, will seek to address the various sex offences in the country. The MPs want a sex offender’s register, which will be linked to the Nira system and information shared within 10 days on conviction of the cu...

A High Court in the Jonglei State capital, Bor town Friday last week found 78 defendants guilty of involvement and or incitement during clashes over a disputed village at the southern outskirts of the town along the Juba-Bor road three years ago.

Uganda's parliament has passed a bill that further outlaws same-sex relations, anal sex and sex work, and further criminalises LGBT+ people.

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REVEALED: How Nigerian Police, Judiciary Frustrate Justice For Rape Victims In Nigeria, hundreds of rape cases are reported annually, but the institutions founded to protect the victims and deliver justice have continued to frustrate the system and allow culprits off the hook. by SaharaReporters, New York Apr 30, 2021 Maimuna Alayi awoke on the night of January 2020 to find her three months old baby missing. She had slept with the baby and four other children at her house in Lafiya in Nasarawa,...

Vanuatu’s prime minister, Bob Loughman, said that the changes were aimed at addressing how people talk on social platforms, but acknowledgedits effects could be more far-reaching, Vanuatu’s Daily Post newspaper reported on Wednesday. Dr Tess Newton Cain, program leader of the Griffith Asia Institute Pacific Hub, told the Guardian that the broad wording of the amendments to the penal code could have “a significant chilling effect” on journalists and others expressing their o...

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Daily Monitor Saturday April 24 2021 Businessman Godfrey Kato Kajubi (right) appears at the Supreme Court early last year during hearing of his appeal against his conviction for murdering 12-year-old Joseph Kasirye in 2012. PHOTO /JULIET KIGONGO. Summary According to the Bill, human sacrifice involves beliefs or faith and dismembering of human body parts, and targets the most vulnerable persons of society such as children and persons with disabilities Advertisement Persons found guilty of commi...

Demystifying consent in a sexual freedom era Saturday April 24 2021 Summary An early all round sex education is required in averting the culture of rape. Teach girls that rape is a serious crime. The culture of silence when rape happens should end and victims should be supported and not blamed. Advertisement Consent around sex has become a major grey area and subject of contention. As a reader, you may have encountered the term consent before in relation to rape. Simply put, consent is the vol...

Three incidents that transpired lat week, caught my attention. Garba Shehu and the President’s Medical Tourism I watched an interview of Presidential Spokesman, Garba Shehu last Tuesday, in which he said that President Muhammadu Buhari’s trip to London for a medical check up could not be classified as medical tourism, because he was going to see his Doctors who have been caring for him for the past 30 years! I felt so embarrassed for Nigeria, with that singular statement that Mr Shehu ma...