A Human Rights Activist has sued the State Minister for Tourism Godfrey Kiwanda Ssubi and organizers of the Miss Curvy Pageant arguing that it is against Uganda’s Culture. Kiwanda, Anne Mungoma and Miss Curvy Uganda have been dragged to Mengo Magistrates Court by Gideon Tugume the Executive Director of Human Rights Defenders Uganda. Tugume says […]
A Human Rights Activist has sued the State Minister for Tourism Godfrey Kiwanda Ssubi and organizers of the Miss Curvy Pageant arguing that it is against Uganda’s Culture.
Kiwanda, Anne Mungoma and Miss Curvy Uganda have been dragged to Mengo Magistrates Court by Gideon Tugume the Executive Director of Human Rights Defenders Uganda.
Tugume says that the Miss Curvy contest is discriminative, degrading and a shameful to the country’s culture and heritage.
Tugume says on February 5th 2019, the defendants together with others mobilized women and girls and addressed the media of their intention to hold miss curvy in Uganda in the month of June 2019 against Uganda’s culture of women respect, laws and dignity.
He asserts that currently there is no law and guideline under which such an event can be held.
He’s now seeking for orders that the defendants be personally charged, an apology be issued by Kiwanda to the nation through the media and an order directing the three to restrain from organising the contest in any part of the country.
According to Tugume, despite women activists, religious leaders and civil society organizations protesting the event, the minister and organisers have continued to register and address the media with the same intention of organizing the miss curvy competition.
Court is yet to fix a day for hearing of the case.
