The UNDP Gender Team and the Office for ECOSOC Support and Coordination would like to invite you to participate in an e-discussion on Women and Poverty that started on 11 January and will be on till 12 February 2010, organised by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Department for Economic and Social Affairs (UN/DESA).

2010 will be a watershed year for the promotion of gender equality and women’s empowerment.

The National Resistance Movement (leading political party in Uganda) yesterday launched a computerised registration system that will store physiological data of its members.
The biometric system, which registers the human fingerprints and faces, intends to eliminate double registration of voters during party primary elections.