Tag Archives: girls

Women and girls are facing hunger and other serious threats to their health, rights and safety United Nations | Xinhua | United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) on Wednesday launched an appeal for 113.7 million U.S. dollars to scale up life-saving reproductive health and protection services for women and girls in the …

  Tororo, Uganda | LOUIS JADWONG | The 1st Deputy Prime Minister of Uganda and Minister for East African Community Affairs Rebecca Alitwala Kadaga will be Chief Guest as Old Girls of Tororo Girls School, led by Violet Nandudu,  launch the Tororo Girls’ School Alumni Association (TGSAA) this week. The …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | United Nations agencies in Uganda have launched a new campaign aimed at increasing the enrollment of girls in secondary schools. The UN agencies include UNAIDS, UNESCO, UNFPA, UN Women, and UNICEF. The campaign dubbed, ‘Education Plus Initiative’ aims to accelerate action and investments to prevent …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | These are the top stories in this week’s THE INDEPENDENT. COVER Hell in Karamoja: Does sub-region require military response only? THE LAST WORD Aiding the enemy: How US involvement in the Russia-Ukraine conflict is helping the rise of China to surpass America as the world’s …

  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  Canada has launched four health projects aimed at improving the health and rights of women and girls in Uganda. Run under Global Affairs Canada (GAC), the projects were launched at the Sheraton Hotel Kampala today at an event officiated by the Commissioner Reproductive …

Kasese, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Stella,13 and 15-year-old Joy (not real names) got pregnant during the prolonged school closure as part of Uganda’s COVID-19 containment measures. Upon learning that they were pregnant, they were told that there was no more schooling for them – a negative reality for many …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Police Cyber Unit alongside the anti-human trafficking team at the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) are hunting for teachers who allegedly took pictures of breastfeeding girls in classrooms and shared them on social media. Ever since schools reopened on January 10th, 2022 after …

Over 100,000 teenage mothers are on the verge of never returning to school if no critical interventions are put in check Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Save the Children has today supported the launch of the Ministry of Education and Sports nationwide ‘Safe Back to School’ campaign. The campaign will …

Amuru, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Over 3,200 girls in Amuru are not sure they will return to school due to teenage pregnancies and early marriages in the past year. The girls aged between 15 and 19 years were impregnated, eloped, or married off due to the nearly two years of …

Kassanda, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Authorities in Kassanda district have decried the increasing cases of defilement and teenage pregnancies following the COVID-19 induced closure of educational institutions. According to Kassanda District Probation Office, the district was tenth with a high defilement cases during the 2020 lockdown. The district registered …