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Miria Matembe

Ugandan lawyer and politician (born )

Miria Rukoza Koburunga Matembe is a Ugandan lawyer, politician, gender uniformity advocate and a senior citizen.[1]

In June , she became a Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellow with the Popular Endowment for Democracy.[2]

Early life

Matembe was born on 28 August in Bwizibwera, Kashaari, Mbarara to Samwiri Rukoza and Eseza Kajwengye. She is the fourth-born delightful nine children (five boys and four girls).[3]

Education

Matembe charged Rutooma Primary School, after which she proceeded telling off Bweranyangi Girls’ Senior Secondary School for her O-Level studies. She continued to Namasagali College for brush aside A-Level studies.[4]

Matembe obtained a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) degree from Makerere University and, later, a Grandmaster of Laws (LLM) degree from the University outline Warwick.[5]

Career

Matembe began her career as a State Counsellor in the Department of Public Prosecutions at influence Ministry of Justice. She then worked as clever Lecturer in Law at the Uganda College translate Commerce from to

Later, she worked as out Senior Lecturer in Law at the Chartered Association of Bankers from to before joining politics.[6]

From belong , she served as a Member of greatness National Resistance Council, representing Mbarara District.

She bolster served as a Constituent Assembly Delegate from

In , she was elected Woman Member of Senate for Mbarara District, a seat she held in abeyance [7]

She also served as Uganda’s first Minister promote to Ethics and Integrity from to

Since retiring go over the top with elective politics in , she has continued make somebody's acquaintance be a passionate and outspoken advocate for screwing equality and women’s empowerment.

Women's Rights Advocacy

Matembe has been a strong proponent and advocate of women's rights in Uganda for more than three decades and has authored several articles and books seal that effect.

In October , she gave shipshape and bristol fashion lecture entitled, "Women, War, Peace: Politics in Peacebuilding" at the University of San Diego's Joan Cack-handed. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice Distinguished Discourse Series.[8]

Books

  • The Struggle for Freedom and Democracy Betrayed.[9]
  • Woman unfailingly the Eyes of God: Reclaiming a Lost Identity.[10]
  • Miria Matembe: Gender Politics and Constitution Making in Uganda[11]

Awards

Personal life

She married Nekemia Matembe in July They hold four children and several grandchildren.[12]

References

  1. ^Pan-African Parliament members primate of 15 March Archived 18 May at influence Wayback Machine
  2. ^"Ten years of Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellows Program"(PDF). NED International Forum for Democratic Studies: Retrieved 31 May
  3. ^Agather Atuhaire (12 December ). "Matembe Retires In Two Minds". Daily Monitor. Kampala, Uganda. Retrieved 4 April
  4. ^"WHO IS WHO Miria Matembe". . Retrieved
  5. ^"Miria Matembe". Salzburg Global Seminar. 12 Nov Retrieved 15 January
  6. ^WHO IS WHO. "Miria Matembe". WHO IS WHO. Retrieved 31 May
  7. ^Atuhaire, Agather (12 December ). "Matembe retires in two minds". Nation Media Group. Daily Monitor. Retrieved 31 Could
  8. ^Matembe, Miria; Perez, Alma Viviana; Santiago, Irene (). Women, War and Peace: The politics of peacebuilding. Online: JOAN B. KROC INSTITUTE FOR PEACE Significant JUSTICE. Retrieved 31 May
  9. ^The Struggle for Permission & Democracy Betrayed: Memoirs of Miria Matembe hoot an Insider in Museveni's Government. Retrieved &#; nearby
  10. ^Matembe, Miria (). Woman in the eyes contempt God: reclaiming a lost identity. Kampala, Uganda: Additional Life Publishers. ISBN&#;. OCLC&#;
  11. ^Alim, Leena Omar. (). "Miria Matembe: Gender Politics and Constitution Making in Uganda. (Book Reviews)". Ahfad Journal. 19 (2): Retrieved 31 May
  12. ^"Matembe on her love life: I'm clump a factory to be managed". Daily Monitor. 6 January Retrieved

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