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Rescued but infected with HIV: Teso child marriage survivor’s story

In July 2023, the life of a 17-year-old girl, who dropped out in Senior Four, changed forever. After staying at home in Adoku Village, Osuguro Parish, Olio Sub-County in Serere District for two years, Mary (not her real name) enrolled on a skilling programme at Women and Girls’ Rights Advocacy Uganda (WAGRAU), a community -based organisation. Mary, who had dropped out in Senior Four because of her grandmother’s inability to pay her tuition, was lucky to enroll on a tailoring course with dozens of other vulnerable teenage girls. She completed the course.H...

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Why child marriages have persisted in northern Uganda

Poverty coupled with cultural practices have resulted in increased vulnerabilities of children in the northern district of Kitgum, exposing many girls to child mgrriages. Local leaders and social workers say the number o...

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Daily Monitor

Cash shortfalls threatening efforts to end child marriage

Bill Okech and Alex Ashaba – Daily Monitor Officials say poor funding limits processes to follow up on reported sexual offences against children.

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Daily Press Uganda

Promoting Children’s Rights is not Encouraging Moral Decadence – Children Rights Advocates

Children rights advocates have stressed that society should change their mindset about promotion of children’s rights as an aspect that molds better persons in them. Within the community, children rights have been looked...

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Daily Monitor

Tororo-Kamdini road construction: Govt struggles to protect locals from sexual exploitation

The government hgs set up environment and social safeguards requirements for the Tororo-Kamini road project to check sexual abuse on the road. The 340km road is under the North Eastern Road Corridor Asset Management Proj...

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Daily Monitor

MP Adeke to reintroduce the Sexual Offences Bill

Ester Oluka- Daily Monitor Parliament of Uganda granted the Soroti Woman MP Hon Sarah Adeke leave to reintroduce the Sexual Offences Bill which seeks to consolidate the Uganda’s Laws with changes in nature of sexual crim...

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Sexual offences driving Busoga girls out of school

Ms Namasoga said the abject poverty being experienced in the eastern part of Uganda is eating up children’s future. ASP Michael Kasadha, the Busoga North Regional Police spokesperson, said the biggest number of sexual of...

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Daily Monitor

Sexual offences Bill: One step closer to ending child sexual abuse in Uganda.

Sandra K. Tukwasibwe – Daily monitor Government of Uganda has made tremendous efforts towards addressing child sexual abuse including passing the Sexual Offences Bill 2019 which was passed by Parliament in May 2021 but n...

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How to end perennial cholera outbreaks in Kampala slums

Charlotte Kusemererwa – Daily Monitor Uganda Kampala City has contended with recurring cholera outbreaks for several years that it has almost become a “norm.” This explains why the counter measures devised by authorities...

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The scourge of teenage pregnancies

Charlotte Kusemererwa – Daily Monitor Uganda 30 November 2018 will go down in the history of Uganda as the day when the first ever National Girl summit took place. It was organised by Girls Not Brides Uganda (GNBU), Nati...

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New Vision

Child mother speaks out, steers emotional shock at national girls summit

Nelson Kiva, Jeff Andrew Lule – New Vision Uganda We had nothing to eat since my husband who was just 18-years-old had no job and the entire family turned against me alleging that I had brought bad fortune in their famil...

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Daily Monitor

NAJJUMBA IS ALREADY A GRANDMOTHER AT 27

Roland D. Nasasira – Daily Monitor Early motherhood.Teenage pregnancy in Uganda stands at 25 per cent. Sumaiah Najjumba, now a grandmother at 27, is part of that statistic, having conceived at 12, narrates Roland D. Nasa...

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World Bank

WORLD BANK LAUNCHES GLOBAL TASK FORCE TO TACKLE GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE

World Bank Press Release WASHINGTON, October 13, 2016— The World Bank today launched a Global Gender-Based Violence (GGBV) Task Force to strengthen the institution’s response through its projects to issues involving sexu...

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New Vision

Women MPs, CSOs want Marriage Bill enacted into law

Jeff Andrew Lule- New Vision Uganda KAMPALA— Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) and women Members of Parliament have called on Parliament to expeditiously pass the Marriage bill into law. They argue that the law is long...

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Daily Monitor

What activists are doing to promoting sanitation in Ugandan slums

Roland D. Nasasira – Daily Monitor Uganda Daily Monitor, SATURDAY JUNE 9 2018 — There are a number of characteristics that cut across most, if not all slums around the world, including those in Kampala.

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UBC Television Uganda

West Nile Struggles with Rising Cases of Child Marriage

By UBC Television Uganda

Independent video reporting from UBC Television Uganda on “West Nile Struggles with Rising Cases of Child Marriage”. JFCU includes this coverage to help readers follow the wider public conversation on child protection, c...

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NTVUganda

Uganda advances strategy to end child marriage and teenage pregnancies

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Independent video reporting from NTVUganda on “Uganda advances strategy to end child marriage and teenage pregnancies”. JFCU includes this coverage to help readers follow the wider public conversation on child protection...

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More than a decade on, free sanitary pads promise remains unfulfilled, girls still struggle

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Independent video reporting from NTVUganda on “More than a decade on, free sanitary pads promise remains unfulfilled, girls still struggle”. JFCU includes this coverage to help readers follow the wider public conversatio...

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COU FamilyTV

Child Marriages And Teenage Pregnancies On The Rise In Rwenzori Region.

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Independent video reporting from COU FamilyTV on “Child Marriages And Teenage Pregnancies On The Rise In Rwenzori Region.”. JFCU includes this coverage to help readers follow the wider public conversation on child protec...

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NTVUganda

Poverty, alcoholism cited as leading causes of teenage pregnancies

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Independent video reporting from NTVUganda on “Poverty, alcoholism cited as leading causes of teenage pregnancies”. JFCU includes this coverage to help readers follow the wider public conversation on child protection, ch...

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Olwa Eddy

THE TALE OF CHILD MARRIAGE IN KITGUM

By Olwa Eddy

Independent video reporting from Olwa Eddy on “THE TALE OF CHILD MARRIAGE IN KITGUM”. JFCU includes this coverage to help readers follow the wider public conversation on child protection, children’s rights and community...

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UBC Television Uganda

UBC NEWS TONIGHT WITH SHARON K MAY 6, 2023

By UBC Television Uganda

Independent video reporting from UBC Television Uganda on “UBC NEWS TONIGHT WITH SHARON K MAY 6, 2023”. JFCU includes this coverage to help readers follow the wider public conversation on child protection, children’s ri...

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NTVUganda

Jinja residents want sexual offences bill passed

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Independent video reporting from NTVUganda on “Jinja residents want sexual offences bill passed”. JFCU includes this coverage to help readers follow the wider public conversation on child protection, children’s rights an...

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UBC Television Uganda

MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT ARE DEMANDING FOR THE CHILDREN’S AUTHORITY.

By UBC Television Uganda

Independent video reporting from UBC Television Uganda on “MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT ARE DEMANDING FOR THE CHILDREN’S AUTHORITY.”. JFCU includes this coverage to help readers follow the wider public conversation on child pro...

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UBC Television Uganda

Police say cases of child abuse are on the rise, and children need to be empowered to report.

By UBC Television Uganda

Independent video reporting from UBC Television Uganda on “Police say cases of child abuse are on the rise, and children need to be empowered to report.”. JFCU includes this coverage to help readers follow the wider publ...

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