What Price Bride Price documentary 18 mins version

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• published: 29 Jul 2014
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Bride Price is a key factor in the early and forced marriage of girls. Bride Price, also known as bride wealth or lobola is both a cherished but highly controversial culture practised throughout Africa. It is an amount of money or property or wealth paid by the groom or his family to the parents of a woman upon the marriage of their daughter to the groom. This documentary tackles important side effects of bride price namely child marriages, domestic violence and poverty. It features a cross-section of survivors of domestic violence, judges, community leaders, policy makers and human rights activists. The practice of bride price undermines the dignity of a woman and contravenes with human rights provisions embedded in different local and international human rights instruments. Bride price contravenes with provisions not limited to the Constitution of Uganda, Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women. We take the viewers into the lives of ordinary Ugandans as they share their gruesome experiences and pain as a result of bride price This enlightening documentary also provides a wealth of information on the practice of Bride Price in different cultures in Uganda. -ENDS- For more information contact: Idah Nabunnya idahnabunnya@mifumi.org Website: www.mifumi.org Notes for Journalists / Editors MIFUMI Brief Organizational Profile MIFUMI is a developmental NGO and women's rights organization. The organization has worked for over ten years to end domestic violence and child abuse; addressing issues that are drivers of domestic violence. Such drivers include bride price, polygamy and poverty. MIFUMI advocates for legal reform in cultural practices which undermine the dignity of women. MIFUMI particularly protects women and children experiencing domestic violence. MIFUMI's position on various issues around the practice of bride price is as follows: 1. Bride price should not be a requirement for marriage and should be optional. 2. Bride price should be nonrefundable in the case of dissolution of a marriage/union. 3. At the death of a woman, before the payment/completed payment of bride price, burial should not be prevented and bride price should not be demanded. (MIFUMI has successfully embedded this into the Tororo district level policy through the Bridal Gifts Ordinance and Butaleja Bridal Gifts Ordinance)