Betty Ochan Oyo, Gulu Woman Member of Parliament asserted that traditional practices which encourages women kneeling before men must be banned permanently.
While addressing the Uganda Change Agent Association during a National Development Forum, she presented a paper which suggested that domestic violence was rooted in negative tradition beliefs which discriminate against women such as inheritance, bride price, female genital mutilation, marital rape and sexual cleansing.
The cultural practice of women kneeling before men has long been a part of the region, which is entirely based on inequity against female gender.
Ochan revealed that some men even batter their wives if they do not kneel before them.
However, Julius Lutakoome Kayiira, the director of Mental Health Uganda, argued there was a dangerous belief that some women want their husbands to beat them as a sign of love.
