Mukono, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Mukono Municipality law enforcement officers have rounded up over 40 children from the streets and markets in an ongoing operation aimed at ensuring that youngstar return to school. The arrested children also include those accused of harassing people for money on streets within Goma …
Read More »How COVID-19 has expedited child labour in Uganda’s coffee industry
Mbale, Uganda | DIANA TAREMWA KARAKIRE | When Uganda imposed a lockdown last year to contain the ravaging coronavirus pandemic, the government ordered the closure of all education institutions, businesses, including land and sea borders. Since then the consequences on economic activities have been dire. With schools closed and many jobs lost …
Read More »Mukono police stuck with children thrown out by bosses when lockdown started
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Mukono police division is stuck with children chased away by their bosses from homes where they were engaged in child labour as maids after President Yoweri Museveni declared the 42 days lockdown. The children are Sharuwa Sitenda,16, a daughter to Khulais Kakooza and Sharifah Namugga, …
Read More »Children in Acholi turn to stone crushing, sand mining
Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Several primary school children in the Acholi sub-region are working in stone quarries and sand mining businesses as schools remain closed. Schools were closed last week for 42 days following a surge in the number of covid-19 infections. The children aged between 10 to 16 …
Read More »Ministry calls for collective responsibility to end child labour
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development has called for collective responsibility to end child labour in the country. Aggrey Kibenge, the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development says the country is not lacking laws and policies against child …
Read More »Nwoya district investigating over 200 child labour cases
Nwoya, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Nwoya district is investigating an estimated 248 cases of child labour. The investigations follow the increase in the number of child labourers according to statistics collected by different sub county Community Development Officers-CDOs. According to the CDOs, the children are ferried from other districts at night …
Read More »Leaders in Kayunga raise red flag over persistent child labour
Kayunga, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Leaders in Kayunga district have raised concern about the challenge of child labour. Following the closure of schools due to the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, children engaged in causal jobs that include sand mining, hawking, bricklaying, fishing and sugarcane cutting to earn income. Ramadan …
Read More »Child labor cases worry Kapchorwa authorities
Kapchorwa, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kapchorwa district officials have raised a red flag on the increasing cases of child labour. The vice is common in Kaptanya, Tereyet and Kapusenda sub-counties and Kapchorwa municipality. Children are mainly involved in vending vegetables, firewood, fish and charcoal among others. Tina Cheptoek, the Senior …
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