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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Better Care Network,

The Committee's recommendations on the issues relevant to children's care are highlighted, as well as other care-related concluding observations, ratification dates, and links to the Universal Periodic Review and Hague Intercountry Adoption Country Profile.

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 the Child.

Better Care Network,

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

Loyola University Chicago School of Law,

The Center for the Human Rights of Children & The Gannon Center for Women and Leadership Present War Wounds: The Role of International Justice in Rebuilding the Rule of Law.  This event will be held on Friday, February 3, 2017 from 8:30 A

Elizabeth T. Gershoff, Shawna J. Lee & Joan E. Durrant - Child Abuse & Neglect,

This paper describes promising programs and strategies designed to prevent physical punishment by parents for each of three levels of intervention − indicated, selective, and universal − and summarizes the existing evidence base of each. 

Udayan Care and UNICEF,

This booklet on standards of care in child care institutions is part of a Series on Alternative Care covering the latest legal and policy framework on Alternative Care in India, which has been presented in an easy-to-understand style so that they can be used as an effective reference material by all the stakeholders.

Hyunil Kim, Christopher Wildeman, Melissa Jonson-Reid, and Brett Drake - American Journal of Public Health,

The purpose of this study was to estimate the lifetime prevalence of official investigations for child maltreatment among children in the United States.

UNICEF,

This report from UNICEF shines light on the dangers of the Central Mediterranean Migration Route for children and the particular vulnerability of unaccompanied migrant minors traveling along this route.

V.K. Terziev - Conference Paper. Conference: The VII International Academic Congress “Fundamental and Applied Studies in EU and CIS Countries”,

This paper examines the deinstitutionalisation process in Bulgaria.