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Defending Women's Rights At All Costs

Elizabeth Ashamu Deng, Oxfam’s South Sudan Regional Policy and Advocacy Coordinator, spoke with Susan Grace Duku, the women’s representative to the highest refugee leadership body in Rhino Settlement…

“If you become used to speaking in this group, you can do the same elsewhere,” says refugee Veronica Lakulu, shown here addressing a women’s group. Photo: Elizabeth Stevens/Oxfam.

Standing up for women’s rights in the shadow of war

By Elizabeth StevensMore than a million refugees from South Sudan have fled to Uganda, where Oxfam partners are helping women fight for equality, security, justice, and dignity.When women arrive in…

Emmanuel at his workstation. photo credit:Viktorija Jeras / Oxfam

'There Is Nothing Like A Chance To Live In Peace'

Emmanuel spends his days in Kyakya II refugee settlement sitting in the shade of a simple wooden structure. Most people from the surrounding area know him; he is the tailor.“Not many refugees possess…

Prince. photo credit: Viktorija Jeras / Oxfam

Prince’s Journey To Uganda

Prince has found refuge in Kyakya II only recently. His way to finding safety and security was not one without hurdles. “The soldiers brought me to a forest, tied my wrists and ankles to a chair, and…

Sandra in her hair saloon. Photo credit:Viktorija Jeras/Oxfam

For Sandra, Dreams Do Come True

Her name is Sandra and she is a refugee from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). She came to Uganda in 2001 at the age of eight, fleeing the violence in the DRC together with her mother and…

Esperanza, 16, after receiving a mosquito net in Kyakya II. “We depend on the external help here,” she says. Photo credit: Viktorija Jeras / Oxfam

I was scared to death - Esperanza's story

Esperanza says that one day she would like to go back to school. This is one of her biggest hopes for the future. In the DRC, she stopped studying a couple of years ago because her father could not…

40 year old Kambese infront of his tent in KyakaII Refugee settlement. Photo credit: Julius Kasuja/Oxfam

The Dream To Find My Family Keeps Me Strong

Kambese Mubawa is a 40-year-old from Kiwanga village, Rutushuru zone, North Kivu Province. He fled the Democratic Republic of Congo because of the conflicts in his region. He unfortunately lost some…

Vasta, 33, is an Oxfam volunteer community mobiliser. Photo credit Julius Kasuja/Oxfam

Rising Above the Pain To Serve Others

Furaha Vasta is a 33-year-old refugee from Goma, North Kivu province in the Democratic Republic of Congo. She and her family fled to Uganda because of the intertribal conflicts that have continued to…

Can You Open Fiscal Space by Closing Civic Space?

Not if you want domestic revenue mobilization to succeedWhy we must not trade civic space for fiscal revenueWe hope you share this blog on social media. But if you live in Uganda, it might cost you.…

Women at the Bidi Bidi refugee settlement in Uganda in May 2017 voice their concern at the 50 percent cut in cereal rations each person was receiving.

‘Refugee is just a name’: one Ugandan’s quest to help her neighbors

Growing up, Jean-Christabel Asipkwe took a different path than many of her female contemporaries in Uganda, where girls often don’t get the same educational opportunities as boys. She went to school—…