The State Minister for Disabilities Sulaiman Madada has welcomed the report of the Human Rights Watch on the women with disabilities in Northern Uganda and promised that the government will be ready to implement some of the recommendations that the report comes up with on the plight of women with disabilities from that region.

This come as surprising to many Ugandans as in the past the government has always trashed the reports of the organization dispensing them as founded on lies.

Sulaiman Madada

While speaking to journalists in Kampala Madada has said he is happy with the report though he thinks that most of the things that the report recommends are embedded in of the government’s policy in its bid to help address the plight of people with disabilities.

Madada says for example the budget for addressing the needs of the people with disabilities has been progressively improving in the recent years.

The Minister says for instance the government hopes to increase the budget of special grants to people with disabilities increased from 1.5 billion shillings in the 2009/10 financial year to about 3 billion shillings in the financial year 2010/11 financial year.

He says however though the government has done some intervention to address the plight of the people with disabilities it is still constrained by inadequate resources in the country and admits that there are still some aspects that affect people with disabilities that the government has not addressed.

HRW reelased a 73-page report “’As if we aren’t human’:Discrimination and Violence against women with Disabilities in Northern Uganda,” showing frequent abuse and discrimination against women with disabilities from the North both by not only strangers but also their neighbors and family members.

By Zakaria Tiberindwa, Ultimate Media