Uganda

Demographic Data

  • Total Population: 37.78 million
  • Population under 15 years: 48%
  • Life Expectancy at Birth: 59 years
  • Human Development Index: 163 out of 188
  • World Bank Status: Low income
  • HIV/AIDS Prevalence (age 15-49): 7.3%
  • Mean Household Composition: 4.9 persons
  • Female-Headed Households: 29.5%
  • Early Marriage (% of children married by 18 years): 40%

Sources: World Bank, UNICEF, UNDP HDR 2015, DHS 2011

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Family for Every Child,

Family for Every Child is recruiting a Regional Coordinator for a Learning Network on Recovery and Reintegration from Child Sexual Exploitation in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Bethany Christian Services Global,

Bethany Christian Services Global, LLC (Global) is recruiting an International Programs Director.

J. Curtis McMillen, Sarah Carter Narendorf, Debra Robinson, Judy Havlicek, Nicole Fedoravicius, Julie Bertram, David McNelly - Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health,

This paper reports on the development and piloting of a manualized treatment foster care program in the US designed to step down older youth with high psychiatric needs from residential programs to treatment foster care homes.

UNICEF Guinea,

Selon les résultats d’une cartographie, réalisé du 16 au 24 août 2014, plus de 140 000 enfants etaient indirectement affectés par la Maladie à Virus Ebola en Republique de Guinee.

Lauren Lee White - VICE,

This article describes a program at a prison in California, USA that allows incarcerated mothers to live with their young children in a nursery in the prison.

Piotr Pawlak, Laxman Belbase, Lena Karlsson - Save the Children,

This report was developed by Save the Children to accompany the State of the World’s Fathers 2015 report (SOWF), produced by MenCare. This Child Rights Perspective report is an excerpt of the main SOWF report, highlighting the content from the main report that is related to children’s rights and gender equality.

 

Kathryn L Humphreys, Mary Margaret Gleason, Stacy S Drury, Devi Miron, Charles A Nelson 3rd, Nathan A Fox, Charles H Zeanah - The Lancet,

This study examined psychopathology at age 12 years in a cohort of Romanian children who had been abandoned at birth and placed into institutional care, then assigned either to be placed in foster care or to care as usual.

Dianne Becker - Missions Dilemma,

This post on the Missions Dilemma website features an article and 30 minute documentary film on the harmful impact of institutionalization on children.

Human Rights Watch,

De nombreux enfants originaires d’États dévastés par la guerre, qui voyagent souvent seuls, fuient actuellement des abus dans leurs pays d’origine pour chercher refuge au sein de l’Union européenne, a affirmé aujourd’hui Human Rights Watch. Beaucoup d’entre eux tentent d’échapper au recrutement d’enfants soldats, aux mariages de mineurs et aux attaques menées contre des écoles, ou encore à d’autres conséquences de la guerre en Syrie et en Afghanistan. D’autres fuient les discriminations or à l’encontre des réfugiés afghans en Iran.

The National Council for Adoption (NCFA) and the Joint Council on International Children's Services,

The National Council for Adoption (NCFA) and the Joint Council on International Children's Services have teamed up to launch a new conference: Putting Family First, From Family Strengthening to Adoption. The conference will be held in Arlington, VA (metro D.C.) from June 22, 2015 to June 24, 2015.