Miria Matembe

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Miria Matembe
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Member of the Pan-African Parliament
for Uganda
In office
2003–Unknown
Personal details
Born (1953-08-28) August 28, 1953 (age 71)
Mbarara, Uganda
Alma mater Makerere University
University of Warwick
OccupationLawyer, politician

Miria Rukoza Koburunga Matembe (born 26 August 1953) is a Ugandan lawyer, politician, gender equality advocate and a senior citizen. [1]

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In June 2006, she became a Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellow with the National Endowment for Democracy. [2]

Early life and education

Matembe was born on 28 August 1953 in Bwizibwera, Kashaari, Mbarara to Samwiri Rukoza and Eseza Kajwengye. She is the fourth-born of nine children (five boys and four girls). [3] She attended Rutooma Primary School, after which she proceeded to Bweranyangi Girls’ Senior Secondary School for her O-Level studies. She continued to Namasagali College for her A-Level studies. [4]

Matembe obtained a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) degree from Makerere University and, later, a Master of Laws (LLM) degree from the University of Warwick. [5]

Career

Matembe began her career as a State Attorney in the Department of Public Prosecutions at the Ministry of Justice. She then worked as a Lecturer in Law at the Uganda College of Commerce from 1979 to 1983.

Later, she worked as a Senior Lecturer in Law at the Chartered Institute of Bankers from 1983 to 1989 before joining politics. [6]

From 1989 to 1994, she served as a Member of the National Resistance Council, representing Mbarara District.

She then served as a Constituent Assembly Delegate from 1994-1995.

In 1996, she was elected Woman Member of Parliament for Mbarara District, a seat she held until 2006. [7] She withdrew from elective politics in 2006 after a fallout with Yoweri Museveni, the president of Uganda in 2003 after the removal of presidential term limits from the Constitution. [8]

She also served as Uganda’s first Minister of Ethics and Integrity from 1998 to 2003.

Since retiring from elective politics in 2006, she has continued to be a passionate and outspoken advocate for gender equality and women’s empowerment.

Women's Rights Advocacy

Matembe has been a strong proponent and advocate of women's rights in Uganda for more than three decades and has authored several articles and books to that effect.

In October 2006, she gave a lecture entitled, "Women, War, Peace: Politics in Peacebuilding" at the University of San Diego's Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice Distinguished Lecture Series. [9]

Books

Awards

Personal life

She married Nekemia Matembe in July 1975. They have four children and several grandchildren. [13]

References

  1. ↑ Pan-African Parliament members as of 15 March 2004 Archived 18 May 2011 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ↑ "Ten years of Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellows Program" (PDF). NED International Forum for Democratic Studies: 25. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
  3. ↑ Agather Atuhaire (12 December 2020). "Matembe Retires In Two Minds". Daily Monitor . Kampala, Uganda. Retrieved 4 April 2022.
  4. ↑ "WHO IS WHO Miria Matembe". whoinafrica.com. Retrieved 2021-04-14.
  5. ↑ "Miria Matembe". Salzburg Global Seminar. 12 November 2020. Retrieved 15 January 2021.
  6. ↑ WHO IS WHO. "Miria Matembe". WHO IS WHO. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
  7. ↑ Atuhaire, Agather (12 December 2020). "Matembe retires in two minds". Nation Media Group. Daily Monitor. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
  8. ↑ "Matembe retires in two minds". Monitor. 2020-12-12. Retrieved 2025-08-27.
  9. ↑ Matembe, Miria; Perez, Alma Viviana; Santiago, Irene (2006). Women, War and Peace: The politics of peacebuilding. Online: JOAN B. KROC INSTITUTE FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
  10. ↑ The Struggle for Freedom & Democracy Betrayed: Memoirs of Miria Matembe as an Insider in Museveni's Government . Retrieved 2021-04-14– via www.amazon.com.
  11. ↑ Matembe, Miria (2009). Woman in the eyes of God: reclaiming a lost identity. Kampala, Uganda: New Life Publishers. ISBN   978-9970-17-600-7. OCLC   501315188.
  12. ↑ Alim, Leena Omar. (2002). "Miria Matembe: Gender Politics and Constitution Making in Uganda. (Book Reviews)". Ahfad Journal. 19 (2): 86. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
  13. ↑ "Matembe on her love life: I'm not a factory to be managed". Daily Monitor. 6 January 2021. Retrieved 2021-04-14.
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