Beatrice Atim Anywar
{{short description|Ugandan politician}}
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| name = Beatrice Atim Anywar
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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1964|01|09}}
| birth_place = Kitgum, Uganda
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| education = Makerere University Business School
{{small|(Advanced Diploma in Marketing)}}
Islamic University in Uganda
{{small|(Bachelor of Public Administration)}}
Makerere University
{{small|(Master of Public Administration and Management)}}
Marquette University
{{small|(Certificate in Democracy and Good Governance)}}
| occupation = Politician
| years_active = 1991 to present
| nationality = Ugandan
| citizenship = Uganda
| known_for = Politics
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| title = Member of Parliament for Kitgum Municipality and Minister of state for Environment
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| spouse = {{small|(Divorced)}}
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Beatrice Atim Anywar (née Beatrice Atim), also Betty Anywar, (born 9 January 1964), is a Ugandan politician who serves as the Member of Parliament representing the Kitgum Municipality Constituency in the 10th Ugandan Parliament (2016 to 2021).{{cite web |date=31 December 2017 |url=http://www.parliament.go.ug/mp_database/profile.php?mid=262 |title=Parliament of Uganda: Members of The 10th Parliament |access-date=31 December 2017 |publisher=Parliament of Uganda |author=Parliament of Uganda |location=Kampala |archive-date=21 March 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180321100915/http://www.parliament.go.ug/mp_database/profile.php?mid=262 |url-status=dead }} Effective 14 December 2019, she concurrently serves as the State Minister for the Environment, in the Ugandan Cabinet. She replaced Dr. Mary Goretti Kitutu, who was appointed Minister of Energy and Minerals, in the same cabinet.{{cite web|url=https://www.monitor.co.ug/News/National/Museveni-shuffles-Cabinet-drops-Muloni-Nadduli-Ssekandi/688334-5386130-139sq4lz/index.html |title=Museveni Shuffles Cabinet, Drops Muloni, Appoints Magyezi |newspaper=Daily Monitor |date=14 December 2019 |access-date=18 December 2019 |author=Monitor|place=Kampala}}
Background and education
She was born in Kitgum District, in the Acholi sub-region, in the Northern Region of Uganda, on 9 January 1964. In 1991, she graduated with an Advanced Diploma in Marketing, from Makerere University Business School. In 2004, she received a Bachelor of Public Administration degree from the Islamic University in Uganda. Her degree of Master of Public Administration and Management was awarded by Makerere University, the oldest and largest public university in Uganda. She also has a Certificate in Democracy and Good Governance, Obtained from Marquette University, in the United States.
Career before politics
For a period of over two years, from 1991 until 1993, Beatrice Anywar worked as the Depot Manager at a company called UFEL Uganda. Then for the next two years, 1994 and 1995, she worked as Senior Marketing Officer at Vitafoam Uganda Limited, a mattress manufacturing company. After that, she worked in the commercial customer care office of the National Water and Sewerage Corporation, serving there for eight years, from 1996 until 2004.
Political career
; In the FDC political party
She entered Uganda's elective politics by contesting for the Kitgum Municipality Constituency parliamentary seat in 2006. She was elected, defeating the National Resistance Movement candidate Santa Okot. She was appointed as the shadow minister for the environment during her first term in parliament, due to her environmental activism.{{cite web |date=12 May 2010 |title=Suspended legislators no strangers to controversy |url=https://www.newvision.co.ug/new_vision/news/1290476/suspended-legislators-strangers-controversy |access-date=31 December 2017 |newspaper=New Vision |author=Barbara Among |place=Kampala |archive-date=21 March 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190321035416/https://www.newvision.co.ug/new_vision/news/1290476/suspended-legislators-strangers-controversy |url-status=dead }}
She became well-known for her work to save the Mabira Forest in Uganda. The president, Yoweri Museveni, and the government had, prior to her work, decided to sell the forest to the sugar company Sugar Corporation of Uganda Limited (SCOUL) to cut it down and convert it into a sugar cane plantation for ethanol production. Atim fought along with, for example, the National Association of Professional Environmentalists to stop the felling, and organised a boycott of SCOUL's sugar.{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.ug/mabira-no-storm-mehtas-tea-cup/ |title=Mabira: No Storm in Mehta's Tea Cup |newspaper=The Independent (Uganda) |access-date=31 December 2017 |date=27 August 2011 |author=Mubatsi Asinja Habati |location=Kampala}}
In 2007, about 100,000 Ugandans demonstrated in a demonstration called the "Save Mabira Crusade" against the president and military to save the forest. Three people died, and many were hurt. Atim Anywar's house was besieged by military and police, and she was imprisoned for terrorism.{{cite web |url=https://www.newvision.co.ug/new_vision/news/1158157/save-mabira-crusaders-renew-debate |title=Save Mabira crusaders renew debate |accessdate=31 December 2017 |date=27 August 2007 |location=Kampala |newspaper=New Vision |last=Mubiru |first=Apollo |archive-date=21 March 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190321035417/https://www.newvision.co.ug/new_vision/news/1158157/save-mabira-crusaders-renew-debate |url-status=dead }}
; As an independent politician
During the 2016 parliamentary election cycle, Anywar lost the Forum for Democratic Change primaries.{{cite web |title=Anywar loses Kitgum Municipality MP FDC flag |url=http://mobile.monitor.co.ug/specialreports/elections/Anywar-loses-Kitgum-Municipality-MP-FDC-flag/2471424-2977538-format-xhtml-2n5r74/index.html |date=30 November 2015 |access-date=31 December 2017 |newspaper=Daily Monitor Mobile |location=Kampala |last=Dan Michael Komakech |first=and John Okot |archive-date=31 December 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171231211926/http://mobile.monitor.co.ug/specialreports/elections/Anywar-loses-Kitgum-Municipality-MP-FDC-flag/2471424-2977538-format-xhtml-2n5r74/index.html |url-status=dead }} She ran as an independent political candidate.{{cite web| url=http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/National/Anywar-pleads-with-FDC-leaders-for-Kitgum-municipality-flag/-/688334/2978950/-/op6ssyz/-/index.html |title=Anywar pleads with FDC leaders for Kitgum municipality flag |access-date=31 December 2017 |date=1 December 2015 |newspaper=Daily Monitor |location=Kampala |author=Stephen Kafeero}} She won the parliamentary seat, with a comfortable margin, beating several high-profile opponents.{{cite web|accessdate=31 December 2017 |url=https://ugandaradionetwork.com/story/anywar-wins-kitgum-municipality-seat- |title=Anywar Wins Kitgum Municipality Seat |publisher=Uganda Radio Network |author=Peter Labeja | date=19 February 2016 |location=Kampala}}
In December 2017, during the parliamentary vote to remove presidential age limits, Beatrice Atim Anywar voted "Yes", to the chagrin of opposition politicians.{{cite web| url=http://www.monitor.co.ug/OpEd/Commentary/MP-Anywar-needs-urgent-protection-media/689364-4245630-8myeocz/index.html | title=MP Anywar needs urgent protection from the media | date=30 December 2017 | last= Bisiika | first= Asuman |accessdate=31 December 2017 |newspaper=Daily Monitor |location=Kampala}}
On 14 December 2019, she was named in the cabinet of Uganda as the minister of state for Environment; a position she was appointed to by the Head of State of Uganda Yoweri Kaguta Museveni.
See also
References
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External links
- [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6478829.stm Uganda MPs angry at forest plan], from BBC. Accessed on 26 December 2010.
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20110726122154/http://www.observer.ug/new/specials/prison/prison2007005241.php Male inmates peep at naked women] As of 24 May 2007.
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