As Uganda moves deeper into another heated election season, a coalition of child rights organisations is urging political ...
Retired Bishop Eria Paul Luzinda Kizito has strongly condemned the growing wave of violence and abuse of children's rights in Uganda, warning that the country is drifting toward lawlessness marked by ...
The Invisible Children campaign came to Amherst Wednesday night to showcase their documentary about the ongoing civil war in Uganda. The documentary tells the story of three friends, Jason Russell, ...
Two decades ago, in a small pocket of Northern Uganda, something peculiar and tragic started happening. Children began suffering seizures, not just occasionally but numerous times a day. Their neck ...
KAMPALA, Uganda — At 12, Lucy Aol was clutching an assault rifle and preparing to ambush government soldiers. At 13, a rebel commander a decade older made her his wife. At 16, she was a mother. At 21, ...
As he marched for days through the bush without food or water, armed with an AK-47 to loot and to kill, Bosco Ojok dared not dream of going home. Just 14 when he was abducted near his northern Ugandan ...
KATABI, Uganda (RNS) — Jackline Mukisa sobbed as she described how her 8-year-old son was found in a nearby swamp in February without teeth, lips, ears and genitals. “My innocent son died a painful ...
Uganda's disability rights advocates have renewed their push for stronger social protection for children with disabilities, calling on government to introduce a National Child Disability Benefit, as ...
In the long rebel war in Uganda, 20,000 children have been abducted. Boys are forced to join the resistance army; girls become sex slaves to the older soldiers. A center in northern Uganda is trying ...
KAMPALA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Child rights campaigners in Uganda have welcomed a new law that restricts fast-track foreign adoptions in which children - often with living parents - can be ...
A new report out from UNICEF, the United Nations children’s agency, says that at the global height of the pandemic, nearly half a billion children could not access remote learning during lockdowns.
FILE - In this July 31, 2006 file photo, Joseph Kony, leader of the Lord's Resistance Army, speaks during a meeting with a delegation of 160 officials and lawmakers from northern Uganda. (AP Photo, ...