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CECIC Delivers Statement at CSW70 Demanding Justice for Women in Uganda
The Centre for Citizens Conserving Environment and Management (CECIC) has presented a formal civil society statement at the Seventieth Session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW70), held at the United Nations Headquarters in New York from 9 to 19 March 2026.
Under the priority theme of Ensuring and Strengthening Access to Justice for All Women, CECIC's statement brings the voices of Ugandan women to the global stage, documenting the real and urgent barriers to justice that women across Uganda continue to face.
The statement addresses seven critical issues: violence against women and impunity, land rights and economic justice, sexual and reproductive health rights, climate justice, the human rights crisis caused by the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP), the ongoing displacement of women in Kasese, and the silencing of marginalised women who have long been excluded from decision-making spaces.
As an organisation rooted in Kasese, CECIC gives particular attention to the plight of internally displaced women along the Nyamwamba and Mubuku rivers, who continue to wait in camps for resettlement, compensation, and support that the Government of Uganda has yet to deliver.
The statement calls on the Government of Uganda and the international community to take bold, concrete, and time-bound action, including reforming land tenure laws, strengthening enforcement of the Domestic Violence Act, ensuring women's access to climate finance, holding EACOP accountable, and creating inclusive spaces where the voices of the most marginalised women are heard and acted upon.
