Uganda and Children and young people
- Capital:
Kampala - Population:
33398682 - Size:
236040.0 Km2
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- The BLDS children & young people collection
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- Search for the latest children & young people-related print documents on this country from the British Library for Development Studies collection
- The Lord’s Resistance Army and abductions in Northern Uganda
- P. Pham; P. Vinck; E. Stover / Human Rights Center, University of California, Berkeley, 2007
- Since the late 1980s, the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), a rebel group in Uganda, has abducted tens of thousands of children and adults to serve as porters and soldiers. Girls were forced to serve as sexual and domestic servants ...
- Harmonisation of national laws with Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC)-Country reviews
- African Child Policy Forum, 2007
- This is a regional examination of the extent of harmonisation of national laws relating to children under the umbrella of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). This report reviews and analyses how far countries in Eastern a...
- The impact of emergencies on women and children
- United Nations Children's Fund, 2007
- This Humanitarian Action Report 2007 outlines UNICEF’s appeal for children and women in 33 emergencies around the world. In each country it looks at critical issues for children, key actions and achievements in 2006 and planned h...
- Training and employment more important than psychosocial rehabilitation for former child soldiers in Uganda
- C. Blattman / Households in Conflict Network, 2006
- What are the long-term effects of child soldiering? This study of northern Uganda finds that only a small percentage of ex-child soldiers experience ongoing psychological trauma. Instead, it suggests that the primary disadvantage thes...
- How should the International Criminal Court protect the rights of former child soldiers?
- M. Goetz / Redress Trust, 2006
- The International Criminal Court broke new ground by charging Ugandan and Congolese warlords with recruiting or using children in hostilities. This report provides analysis of the context of child recruitment in Northern Uganda and Ea...
- Children’s experiences of conflict with the law and recommendations to protect them
- F. Martin; J. Parry-Williams / Save the Children Fund, 2005
- This report addresses the issues facing children who are in conflict with the law. Drawing throughout on case studies and first-hand descriptions of children’s experiences, the first part analyses the experiences and situation of...
- Survey findings on experiences of physical, sexual and psychological abuse
- J. Stavropoulos / African Child Policy Forum, 2006
- This report presents the results of retrospective surveys in Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda on young women's experiences of violence before they were 18 years old. Surveys were taken of a group of 500 young women in each of the capital ci...
- World Visions work: empowerment of women and girls
- World Vision International Resources on Child Rights, 2006
- This publication is World Vision’s briefing paper to the 50th Commission on the Status of Women. It focuses on World Vision’s work to empower and advance the status of women and girls while assisting the entire community in ...
- Participatory performance methodology for health awareness
- J. Tatlow / Eldis Document Store, 2005
- This article presents the experience in Uganda, of a participatory performance methodology for getting people to go to the clinic of their own accord called D.E.D.S.A.M.S. - Development Education: Dance. Song. Action. Mime. Storytelli...
- The objectives, methodologies and results of a study on the abject poverty of Ugandan children
- W. McNevin / United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, 2005
- This study on children in abject poverty in Uganda was undertaken to identify the problems hidden by the fact that the children in poverty are invisible; yet by the very nature of their situation, they are included among those that ar...
- Raising Voices
- Preventing violence against women and children
- African Friends in Need Network (AFINNET)
- Uganda based Christian organisation working to promote rural community development initiatives
