Article 32 stipulates affirmative action for groups discriminated against by gender, age or disability.
The Association also helped to pass an amendment to the penal code, making rape subject to capital punishment, and an amendment to the 1998 Land Act granting legally married women co-ownership of land with their husbands.
[2] UOPA has used a mix of strategies to ensure attention to women's issues in legislation and government policy.
"[2] In the 8th parliament of Uganda (2006–2011) UWOPA adopted a strategy designed to minimise opposition to progressive gender-related legislation: large pieces of legislation were broken into smaller, less controversial, pieces, and male MPs were actively recruited to support and even table pro-women bills.
Female MPs succeeded in establishing an equal opportunities commission (2006), and passing legislation against FGM (2009), human trafficking (2009) and domestic violence (2010).