Uganda Child Right NGO Network {UCRNN} has called upon the government to bring to book the perpetrators who killed 42 students from Lhubiriha Secondary School in Nyabugando Town Council, Kesese District last Friday. Further, they have urged the government to ensure that the 6 abducted children are immediately released and resettled with their families and […]
Every child has a right to live and the government must ensure as much as possible a good life and development of a child but, that is brought to question when the ADF rebels cost the lives of 42 children on the night of June 16, 2023 with 6 abducted from Mpondwe/ Lubiriha Secondary […]
Thousands of displaced children on the South Sudanese side of the border with Sudan are at risk of deadly cholera outbreaks due to flooding and lack of adequate sewage systems. This was said by Save the Children who reported that Cases of cholera have already been reported in resettlement camps in Malakal, where many of the refugees […]
At least 38 students, and a number of civilians, have been killed in a suspected rebel attack on a school in Uganda. The victims were burned, shot, or hacked to death after suspected rebels attacked a Lhubiriha Secondary School near the border with Congo, the local mayor said on Saturday. According to Uganda police, the […]
About 315,000 grave violations against children in conflict or war were verified by the United Nations between 2005 and 2022 according to UNICEF. More than 120,000 children were killed or maimed.105, 000 others recruited or used by armed forces or armed groups, more than 32,500 were abducted and more than 16,000 children were subjected to […]
Familia moja kutoka Kaunti ya Homa Bay, eneo bunge la Ndhiwa, inatafuta haki kwa binti yao mwenye umri wa miaka 17 anayedaiwa kunajisiwa na kundi la wanaume sita. Mwathiriwa kwa sasa amelazwa katika Hospitali ya Mafunzo na Rufaa ya Kaunti ya Homa Bay ambapo alikimbizwa akiwa na majeraha baada ya kisa hicho kilichotokea Jumatatu usiku […]
The Ugandan parliament has passed a bill that increases paternity leave from four to seven days for male workers. The MPs said they borrowed a leaf from Kenya that accords male working employees two weeks for paternity leave, New Vision reported. …it is important that more time be accorded to male employees to help their […]
At least 6,841 children were reported missing in Kenya in the last 10 months alone according to the data from the government. This was revealed by Labour Cabinet Secretary Florence Bore during the commemoration of International Missing Children Day yesterday. She added that 1,296 have been reunited with their families so far. However, she said, […]
A recent report by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), a United States public organization, shows that climate change has dire physical and mental health implications for children. They include elevated rates of respiratory diseases, organ failure, seizures, and increased infection rates, For instance, the organization says, children cannot regulate their body temperature as efficiently as […]
More than 7 million children under the age of 5 in Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia are currently malnourished and are in need of urgent nutrition support according to UNICEF. In addition over 1.9 million children are at risk of dying from severe malnutrition. This has been occasioned by the drought that has been termed as […]