National Development Forum
May 3 2007, Pooja

Betty Ochan Oyo, Gulu Woman Member of Parliament asserted that traditional practices which encourages women kneeling before men must be banned permanently.

While addressing the Uganda Change Agent Association during a National Development Forum, she...

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