Summary: Uganda's health ministry has recorded 3,000 cases and almost 200 deaths since 2010. [3 April 2012] - In the north of Uganda, thousands of children have fallen ill with a fatal, incurable disease known as nodding disease. Communities...
Summary: A Uganda-based human rights group has sued an American evangelical minister in a U.S. court for campaigning to persecute sexual minorities in the country.A Ugandan rights group claims in Federal Court that an evangelical minister organized...
Summary: Information about institutions in Uganda that monitor children's rights.Children's Ombudspersons
The Ugandan Human Rights Commission has a Constitutional basis under articles 51 and 58 of the Constitution of Uganda, in which its powers and...
Summary: In its 21 women detention facilities countrywide, the Uganda Prisons Service currently has 161 children detained alongside their mothers. Similar to other children her age, 10-year-old Sylvia wanted to become a doctor after her education....
[24 February 2012] - Margaret was home in Opota, Acholiland, with her four-year-old son on the night the Ugandan rebel group Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) attacked. She was taken from her house and made to lie down next to 12 other villagers...
This 22nd annual World Report summarises human rights conditions in more than 90 countries and territories worldwide in 2011. It reflects extensive investigative work that Human Rights Watch staff has undertaken during the year, often in close...
Summary: Parliament to debate reintroduced anti-homosexuality proposals that could lead western donors to cut aid. [8 February 2012] - A bill that would make the death sentence mandatory for gay "repeat offenders" has been reintroduced in the...
Background
The Child Protection in Crisis Network in Uganda is promoting new interdisciplinary approaches to addressing child and youth security and wellbeing concerns across a range of crisis contexts. Drawing expertise in humanitarian...
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UGANDA
Title:
Nantume Shamira v. Kampala City Council & 2 Others
Court:
The High Court of Uganda at Kampala (Commercial Division)
Date:
March 30, 2009
CRC Provisions:
Article 12: The child's...
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UGANDA
Title:
In the matter of Namugerwa Joyce, Nantongo Harriet, Nakafero Jackline (Minors) and In the matter of an Application for Guardianship of the Estates of the Said Minors by Nakabugo Cate (Paternal Aunt)...
