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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Una Stone, Marg Liddell, and Marietta Martinovic - Justice Policy Journal, Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice 2015,

This paper describes the myriad of issues and barriers that Australian mothers face on exiting prison in their attempts to regain parental responsibility of their children.

Better Care Network,

This country care review includes the care related Concluding Observations adopted by the Committee on the Rights of the Child. 

Better Care Network,

This country care review includes the care related Concluding Observations adopted by the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Committee on the Rights of the Child.

ChildPact,

The Georgian Coalition for Children and Youth Welfare presented the report ‘Georgia: The Child Protection Index: Measuring the Fulfillment of a Child’s Rights’ at a public event on June 5.

Karel Attl - Journal of Nursing, Social Studies, Public Health and Rehabilitation,

In this article, the author offers a response to the recommendations made to the government of the Czech Republic by the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC).

Christine Budzikiewicz, Machteld M. Vonk - Social Science Research Network,

This article explores the use of baby boxes in Germany and the Netherlands.

Stephen Ucembe - International Institute of Social Studies,

This essay examines institutional care not as a structure or facility, but as a model of care and protection for orphans and vulnerable children in Kenya.

Sobhana K Nair - Bangalore Mirror ,

India’s Ministry of Women and Child Development (WCD) has circulated to the state governments, for the first time, guidelines on foster care following a national consultation on June 3 2015.

Ana Rocío Escobar-Chew, Marsha Carolan & Kathleen Burns-Jager - Journal of Feminist Family Therapy,

This qualitative study focused on disadvantaged women in the US child welfare system who have lost their parental rights.

Věra Jourová, EU Commissioner for Justice, Consumers and Gender Equality,

In this speech delivered at the 9th European Forum on the Rights of the Child in Brussels, Věra Jourová, EU Commissioner for Justice, Consumers and Gender Equality highlights the current dangers faced by many of Europe’s children today, including poverty and institutionalization.