{"id":133598,"date":"2026-03-09T14:02:46","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T14:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/uganda-marks-international-womens-day-with-all-women-military-parade\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T14:02:46","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T14:02:46","slug":"uganda-marks-international-womens-day-with-all-women-military-parade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/uganda-marks-international-womens-day-with-all-women-military-parade\/","title":{"rendered":"Uganda marks International Women\u2019s Day with all-women military parade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KAMPALA \u2014 Uganda on Sunday held an all-women military parade to mark International Women\u2019s Day, observed this year under the national theme \u201cScaling up investment to accelerate access to justice for women and girls across Uganda.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Addressing the gathering, President Yoweri Museveni\u2019s speech was read on his behalf by Vice President Jessica Alupo. Museveni said International Women\u2019s Day provides an opportunity to highlight the critical role of women and girls in both community and national development.<\/p>\n<p>The president said that the government has long promoted the empowerment of women and girls through education, supportive legislation and economic programs to enable their full contribution to national development.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEducation and skilling of the girl-child is an effective method of empowering not only women but the entire society,\u201d Museveni said.<\/p>\n<p>The parade, which was also attended by foreign envoys, saw the participation of women from various security forces. Cultural performances, including songs and dances, were also part of the celebrations.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KAMPALA \u2014 Uganda on Sunday held an all-women military parade to mark International Women\u2019s Day, observed this year under the national theme \u201cScaling up investment to accelerate access to justice for women and girls across Uganda.\u201d Addressing the gathering, President Yoweri Museveni\u2019s speech was read on his behalf by Vice President Jessica Alupo. Museveni said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}