{"id":16728,"date":"2015-02-27T06:04:02","date_gmt":"2015-02-27T06:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/?p=16728"},"modified":"2015-02-27T06:05:26","modified_gmt":"2015-02-27T06:05:26","slug":"government-committed-to-empowering-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/government-committed-to-empowering-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Government pledges committed to empowering women"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_16255\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16255\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/women.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16255\" src=\"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/women.jpg\" alt=\"Rural women are most prone to domestic violence.\" width=\"460\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/women.jpg 460w, https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/women-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16255\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rural women are most prone to domestic violence.<br \/>(Internet photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As the country prepares for the Women\u2019s Day celebrations, government has maintained its commitment to women empowerment.<br \/>\nAnnouncing this year\u2019s celebrations, the state minister for gender and culture affairs Rukia Nakadama told parliament that remarkable progress had been made in attaining gender equality but continuous effort is still required.<br \/>\nNakadama also reveals that a new campaign dubbed \u201cHe for She\u201d that seeks to increase men\u2019s participation in fighting gender inequality is to be launched on 8th March.<br \/>\nThe campaign targets 1 billion men and boys globally as advocates and agents for change to end inequalities faced by women and girls.<br \/>\nThe national women\u2019s day celebrations are to be held in Kabale district under the theme \u201cEmpowerment of women and girls is progress for all: three decades of gains for Ugandan women and girls\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Story by Benjamin Jumbe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the country prepares for the Women\u2019s Day celebrations, government has maintained its commitment to women empowerment. Announcing this year\u2019s celebrations, the state minister for gender and culture affairs Rukia Nakadama told parliament that remarkable progress had been made in attaining gender equality but continuous effort is still required. Nakadama also reveals that a new campaign dubbed \u201cHe for She\u201d that seeks to increase men\u2019s participation in fighting gender inequality is to be launched on 8th March. The campaign targets 1 billion men and boys globally as advocates and agents for change to end inequalities faced by women and girls. The national women\u2019s day celebrations are to be held in Kabale district under the theme \u201cEmpowerment of women and girls [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":16255,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16728"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}