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National plans of action for orphans and vulnerable children in sub-Saharan Africa: where are the youngest children?
Bernard van Leer Foundation, 2008Although it is recognised that the focus of support must be on all children made vulnerable by HIV and AIDS, including those living with sick parents or in extreme poverty, the youngest are often invisible to programme planners, despite their vulnerability.DocumentReturning home: children’s perspectives on reintegration: a case study of children abducted by the Lord’s Resistance Army in Teso, eastern Uganda
Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers, 2008In the course of the 21-year armed conflict between the government of Uganda and the Lords Resistance Army (LRA), in northern Uganda, thousands of children and youth have been abducted by the LRA and forced to participate in violent and brutal acts.DocumentHow to end child marriage: action strategies for prevention and protection
International Center for Research on Women, USA, 2007Girls who marry as children (younger than 18 years of age) are often more susceptible to the health risks associated with early sexual initiation and childbearing, including HIV and obstetric fistula. Lacking status and power, these girls are often subjected to domestic violence, sexual abuse and social isolation.DocumentForced marriage within the Lord’s Resistance Army, Uganda
Feinstein International Center, USA, 2008This paper focuses on the experiences of those women and girls forcibly married within the Lords Resistence Army (LRA) in Uganda, and their attempts to reintegrate in civilian life after captivity. It documents and describes how females were often beaten, raped, impregnated, and forced to assume the role of ‘wife’ to the fighters or commanders to whom they were given.DocumentThe state of female youth in northern Uganda: findings from the survey of war-affected youth (SWAY)
Global Development and Environment Institute, Tufts University, 2008As peace talks being brokered by the Government of southern Sudan offer the prospect of an end to one of Africa’s longest conflicts (between the Government of Uganda and the Lords Resistance Army), this paper carries out a thematic-based analysis of the current situation with regards to female youth in northern Uganda.Document'Giving out their daughters for their survival' refugee self-reliance, vulnerability, and the paradox of early marriage
Refugee Law Project, Uganda, 2008This report examines the widespread occurrence of early marriages in Uganda’s refugee settlements and how this phenomenon relates to the ‘vulnerability’ and self-reliance paradigms which underpin official protection and assistance.DocumentIn the best interests of the child: harmonising laws in Eastern and Southern Africa
African Child Policy Forum, 2007This report reviews and analyses how far 19 Eastern and Southern African countries have gone in harmonising and implementing the principles of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACRWC, or 'the African Charter').DocumentAbduction: the Lord's Resistance Army and forced conscription in Northern Uganda
Human Rights Center, University of California, Berkeley, 2007Since 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 and fighters were forced to inflict horrific injuries on defenceless civilians. Children and youth have been forced to mutilate and kill civilians.DocumentRealising rights for children - good practice in Eastern and Southern Africa
African Child Policy Forum, 2007This 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 and Southern African have gone in implementing the principles of the CRC, and how well they have built the recognition of children's rights into their legal systems.