25 years after Beijing:Are we ready for the emancipated woman?

The process, strategy and myriad efforts by which women have been striving to attain liberation from gender inequalities as well as achieving equal rights before the law, and set legal standards that promote full gender equality with men seems to be slow. All this is wrapped in what is termed as women emancipation. Hira Saeed…

MASTERING SELF DISCIPLINE

Self-discipline originates from basically two words: self and then discipline.  Self means an individual’s typical character or behavior while discipline applies to the art of setting up rules that are held with high regard and failure to doing so; one qualifies for punishment hence describing self-discipline as the ability to take up action despite one’s…

What do you consider to be a foundation for success: The students voice

It’s said that life does not give you what you deserve but what you fight for. Life has all that we need to live like gold underneath the earth that you actually have to extract from the mother earth. As we go deeper the earth there are levels that are soft and others are rocky…

When the innocent is shamed, suppressed and forced to give in: Untold stories of University students in Uganda

Nothing like a perfect society exists, but when morality is attacked, there is a cause for alarm. Morality which comes from a Greek word ‘mores’ means manners or morals with various societies understanding it differently. While moral actions may be understood differently, historians and philosophers of morality including Kant, Aristotle, Mill, Rawls, Bentham, Hume and…