ABSTRACT

This study examined the law and policy on prostitution in Uganda. However, having noted above that the Constitution is the supreme law of the land; other laws existing in Uganda have to conform to the constitutional provisions. Thus it is along this argument of conformity with the Constitution that there was need to research and show whether all the laws providing for prostitution are not discriminatory but rather equitably applied. A case in point is the Penal Code Act which deals with criminal law and provided under Section 138 that prostitute means a person who in public or elsewhere regularly or habitually holds himself or herself out as available for sexual intercourse or other sexual gratification for monetary or other material gains and prostitution shall be construed accordingly. It was discussed by the parliament as a controversial matter where Prostitution is referred to as sex worker under our law. This clearly means that prostitution is not considered as work in Uganda.