UGANDA SCRAPS CONTROVERSIAL ANTI-PORNOGRAPHY ‘MINISKIRT’ LAW

Uganda’s constitutional court is scrapping a controversial anti-pornography law whose provisions included a ban on wearing miniskirts in public, in a decision hailed by women’s rights campaigners. ‘Sections of the Anti-Pornography Act are hereby declared null and void,’ Justice Frederick Egonda-Ntende said in the ruling, which also struck down the powers of a nine-member committee tasked with enforcing the law. Read more.