9 q+ d: {' g$ T 乌干达有一个帮助失业男子找工作的组织--发展中男人，该组织负责人表示：“现在妇女变得越来越固执，已婚妇女在知道没有法律会限制她们的行为后，会外出认识其他男子。” / L5 g0 U9 T6 I* O+ C* _ 2 l6 F0 }7 q- @) R3 m# {4 C3 h 法院还废除了另外一条法律，该法律否认寡妇享有同鳏夫一样的权利和继承权。现在男子可以把财产留给他的妻子，而不是像以前那样财产自动传给该男子的亲戚。* Z6 w! m& G7 x% c& ?+ Z ]1 O
$ W! O% u( }. h1 z , C8 Y+ }5 u9 o5 PCourt Overturns Uganda’s Adultery Law 1 n8 v' z; z3 q$ W6 i4 h& n4 Y3 R U/ v' Y" N
KAMPALA, Uganda, April 5 (AP) — A Ugandan court scrapped the nation’s adultery law on Thursday, saying it was unconstitutional and favored men.$ {; C5 x3 Z+ z# j0 l4 u
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“It is unfair for women being victimized and the men being left free,” said Justice John Egwau, one of five judges who unanimously overturned the law at Uganda’s Constitutional Court. “The adultery law is biased in favor of men.” 1 G8 Z. C' L* C+ | . ~% T5 J, `) ]+ ?The court also tossed out a law that denied widows the same rights and inheritance as widowers. ! ^' D6 I3 H* q8 b! x ' F Q; H; k NThe changes were prompted by a group of female lawyers called Law and Advocacy for Women. # C- c2 F, V1 A7 t& G: S 4 e# K4 `0 d; j% G“The ruling is good for all the women of Uganda,” said the group’s leader, Dora Byamukama. “There is need for all women and men to be treated the same.”+ n4 o" I* N0 v; p: z9 Y( K
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Some men’s advocacy groups said they feared that the ruling would encourage Ugandan women to stray. 7 w2 f4 i, `4 {9 h! s& L3 b2 O P o1 b5 J- I9 O, [
“Now the women are going to become stubborn,” said Simon Mukasa, head of Men in Development, a group that helps unemployed men. “Married women will go out with other men well knowing that there is no law against what they are doing.”
