Uganda’s ‘Miniskirt Ban’ Is No Joke | VICE News
12.6.14
Uganda’s ‘Miniskirt Ban’ Is No Joke | VICE News: As many as 19 attacks in and around the capital city Kampala — two of which were on young men whose pants sagged below their underwear — were reported in the papers. African women’s rights activists say that number vastly underrepresents what has become a daily occurrence.
“There are some attacks that happened that are not reported, because the women are embarrassed. They want to get covered up and get home,” Diana Kagere Mugerwa, an advocacy officer at Uganda’s Center For Domestic Violence Prevention (CEDOVIP), told VICE News.
Writer Mildred Apenyo said the attacks should be taken seriously: “We call what is happening to Ugandan women 'undressing,' but really it's not. That wasn't what was happening. It was rape. Mob-rape.”
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