Enabling Women Leaders (2014)

Executive Summary

The legal environment which supports women’s participation in leadership include: Convention on Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against women (CEDAW), Beijing Platform for Action (BPA), Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), Convention on the Political Rights of Women, African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights (ACHPR) and the protocol, Constitution of Uganda, Local Government Act, CAP 243 and electoral laws