COMMENT | Samson Tinka | Human trafficking is the trade of humans for the purpose of forced labor, sexual slavery, or commercial sexual exploitation for the trafficker or others. This may encompass providing a spouse in the context of forced marriage, or the extraction of organs or tissues, including for surrogacy and ova removal. Human trafficking can occur within a country or trans-nationally. Human trafficking …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Internal and external security agencies are probing a case of a woman who was lured with $900 monthly housemaid salary but ended up being sold to an Iraqi man for marriage. Reportedly married to a security officer, the woman whose name has been concealed as the …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Kampala Capital City Authority-KCCA has finalized the process to operationalize the Child protection Ordinance, 2022. KCCA drafted and approved the ordinance in May 2019, but it spent a considerable amount of time in the Attorney General’s Chambers for perusal to ensure it is in …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Internal Affairs in collaboration with police are hunting for a man suspected of trafficking 38 children and adults from seven different districts. Agnes Igoye, the deputy national coordinator trafficking in person department at the ministry of internal affairs, has identified the wanted …
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Entebbe, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | At least 20 Ugandan victims of human trafficking died last year whereas 175 mysteriously disappeared, according to a report released by the ministry of internal affairs. The report released and launched Friday by the ministry’s Permanent Secretary, Lt Gen Joseph Musanyufu, shows 1,295 …
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Nakapiripirit, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Five people arrested on suspicion of trafficking firearms from Kenya to Uganda have escaped from the 407 UPDF brigade in Nakapiripirit district under unclear circumstances. The five suspects were arrested in Bukwo district on Thursday last week. They were handed over to the army, which …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Entebbe Chief Magistrate’s court has fined a Sierra Leone national Shillings 30 million for unlawful possession of narcotics and trafficking in the same. Sesay Abdul Karim appeared before Entebbe Chief Magistrate Juliet Nakitende on Monday who fined him Shillings 10 million for unlawful possession …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Nakawa Chief Magistrates Court has remanded five staff of Nile Treasure Gate Limited on charges of aggravated trafficking in persons. The five who have been charged alongside the company include its directors Abubaker Sulaiman Kato and Muhammad Mariam, an agent Ali Hassan, the supervisor …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) has written to the Attorney General seeking guidance on how to proceed with the case of Judith Nakintu, whose right kidney was removed while working as a domestic worker in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Agnes Igoye, the deputy coordinator of …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Parliament has passed a motion asking the government to urgently address the different challenges faced by the girl child. They cited trafficking, teenage pregnancies and early marriages as some of the issues that need immediate attention. Following a motion by Tororo Woman MP Sarah Opendi, …
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