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Child Rights Protection
Different areas where violence can or happens
- Violence in the home and family:
Includes infanticide, physical, psychological and sexual violence
- Violence in schools and education settings:
This includes violent and humiliating discipline, physical, emotional, and sexual violence and harassment, and bullying in special schools (including military schools) and mainstream schools
- Violence in institutions: Includes violence in alternative care situations such as orphanages, foster and other care homes, NGO shelters, and institutions for disabled children and young people.
- Violence in the community and on the streets:
Including children in conflict with the law, gang violence and children and young people involved in organized crime, but not "war" situations. Also includes private security guards, death squads and vigilantes, as well as harmful traditional practices.
- Violence in work situations:
Includes children in domestic work, trafficking (for forced labor and sexual exploitation), commercial sexual exploitation, (includes sex tourism), and child labor in hazardous conditions.
What can be done to prevent violence against children?
Prevention of child rights is every one concern in the community, institution, homes and the entire world at large
At JFCU, we advocate for child rights and have been trying to share different information with different communities for the last….years on how child rights violation can be prevented at village levels. Below are some of the prevention measures that we advocate for as far as prevention of child rights violation is concerned:
Strengthening laws that make it a crime to use violence against children and sensitizing the public about them. There different laws that intend to prevent violence against children in Uganda for example the Children’s Act Cap 59(5),article 34 of the Ugandan constitution 1995 among others, but these have delivered little work if any as far as child rights violation is
concerned.
There’s need to strengthen reporting mechanism on violence against children at local, national, regional and international levels. Most cases on child rights violation go un reported and it becomes hard to ascertain the magnitude of the problem to help in designing appropriate interventions.
Government intervention in policy review, funding of NGOs advocating for child rights and research is needed. The government should put more efforts in advocating for child rights in the country by enacting more policies on prevention of child rights violation and also supporting the up coming NGOs that intend to enhance this campaign.
Abolishment of corporal punishments in schools and homes. There a number of different ways of how children can be disciplined other than beating or burning them for example you can punish a child by denying them what the like most when they do something wrong like not watching their favorite programs (cartoons).
These measures and more can help in the prevention of violence against children in Uganda and the entire world at large.
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Joy for Children Uganda
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P.O Box 15383
Kampala (Uganda)
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Telephone:
+256 414 530 450
+256 414 380 417
+256 712 982 301
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Email:
info@joyforchildren.org
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