Emily Cody

Emily Cody

Emily lives in Kampala, Uganda, where she works for a Sudanese human rights organisation. She has a MSc in Violence, Conflict, and Development from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London. Her dissertation was about disempowerment, masculinity, and service provision to male survivors of gender-based violence in Northern Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. She has a certificate in Genocide and Human Rights Studies from the University of Toronto and earned her BA in Political Science and Philosophy from Fordham University in New York.

Contributors

Uganda’s Anti-Gay ‘Christmas Gift’
November 29, 2012

The push to pass the 'Kill the Gays' bill

Maternal Mortality in the World’s Newest Country
August 8, 2012

A matter of life and death for the women of South Sudan

Licking your Elbow: Sudan’s Arab Spring Revival
July 12, 2012

Sudan’s most recent spate of demonstrations have been a long time coming.

More Sinned Against than Sinning
June 1, 2012

Sudan Condemns Woman to Death by Stoning

American Culture Wars in Uganda
April 17, 2012

American evangelical Christians and their anti-homosexual agenda in Uganda.

Confronting the Criticisms of those Kony 2012 Ads
March 23, 2012

Egypt, Virginity Tests, and Phase Two of the Revolution
January 9, 2012

On 27 December Judge Aly Fekry of the Cairo Administrative Court banned virginity testing of female detainees.

Gambling on Elections: Congo’s Presidential Problem
December 6, 2011

Originally scheduled to take place on 28 November, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)’s legislative and executive elections bled into the 30th following logistical issues in delivering ballots, widespread irregularities, and long lines on the first day of polling.

Too Taboo to Address?
October 31, 2011

A population-based assessment completed recently by the Journal of the American Medical Association found that nearly 40% of women and 23% of men in three Eastern provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) had been subjected to gender based violence (GBV) since conflict reignited in the mid-1990s. Though some INGOs operational in the region have questioned the methodology of the survey, no one has questioned the existence of GBV against men.

Cease and Desist in Rwanda? (Part 2)
October 5, 2011

[read Part 1 here]