Summary: Raising Voices has launched their new website! Come visit www.raisingvoices.org to browse their resource library, view films that bring women and children’s experiences to life, read inspiring stories of social change, and stay in touch...
Summary: Over the course of the 20-year-war between the government and the LRA, an estimated 30,000 children were abducted from their homes to serve as fighters, porters and sex slaves and baby-sitters.[9 January 2013] - It has been years since...
Summary: This report extracts mentions of children's rights issues in the reports of the UN Special Procedures. This does not include reports of child specific Special Procedures, such as the Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child...
Summary: US companies hired by the government recruit former child soldiers from Uganda to risk their lives as mercenaries for miserly pay in Iraq and other war zones. Both the US Defense Department and the State Department refused to comment on...
Summary: Report on life imprisonment sentences for children in the Commonwealth States.In 2010 CRIN, together with other partners, launched a campaign for the prohibition of inhuman sentencing of children- defined to include sentences of death, life...
To educate the public, the bar (lawyers), and the judiciary (judges) about the harm caused by all forms of childhood genital cutting, including female genital cutting (also known as female genital mutilation or FGM), male genital cutting (also known...
PRI has published new research examining law and policy in relation to violence against children in particular during arrest and in pre-trial detention in eight countries (Bangladesh, Georgia, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Russian...
Summary: This report looks at Uganda's current laws and recent legal reform in relation to the sexual exploitation of children and child-friendly justice.This is part of a series of reports reviewing the implementation of the Optional Protocol on...
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UGANDA
Title:
In re: Michael (an infant)
Court:
The High Court of Uganda (Kampala)
Date:
June 23, 2009
CRC Provisions:
Article 3: Best interests of the child
Other...
[26 June 2012] - A high court judge in Uganda has said security agencies should “infiltrate” gay rights groups to ascertain if children are “recruited into homosexuality.”
Justice Eldad Mwangushya made the comments on Monday...
