{UAH} HISTORY: AMIN, A REAL CHAMPION OF GENDER EQUALITY FOR THE WOMEN OF UGANDA.

"In Uganda, I have guaranteed that both sexes have equal opportunities and responsibilities to help them develop their particular talents and capabilities in the service of Uganda and the international community. Like their male counterparts, Ugandan women now have all the opportunities to make maximum contribution in every field and are playing their role fully and effectively at all levels of decision-making, planning and implementation of all policies, programmes and projects. Women in Uganda have been fully integrated. They receive their full share of the benefits of development, and there are Ugandan women at all levels of administration, including at the top: Ministers, Permanent Secretaries, Professors, Ambassadors, Doctors, Lawyers, Judges, Engineers, Pilots, Business women, and women in all areas of our total endeavour.

The international Community has committed itself to intensify action in promoting equal rights of men and women to ensure the full integration of women in the development effort, and to involve women in international cooperation plus in the strengthening of world peace through the proclamation of this year 1975 as the International Women's year (UN resolution 30/0/XXVII). I am glad to say that as far as Uganda is concerned, under my government we have already guaranteed, both in principle and in practice, full equality between men and women."

OAU Chairman His Excellency Field Marshal Idi Amin Dada. President of the people of Uganda.

(Source: UN Archives)

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