Hurricane Harvey bombarded the Gulf Coast of the United States, leaving more than 250,000 people without power and causing substantial financial, physical, and emotional damage in its wake. Though record-breaking, Harvey was not a singular event. In 2017, severe rain
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Uganda: Where Refugees Get Land
Uganda, photo by Rod WaddingtonIn Uganda, refugees are given a plot of undeveloped bush land to call their own as well as a machete to tame it.The land comes from government negotiations with community landowners who hope that…
Business and Human Rights in Africa – 5 things we can learn from the Ugandan business community
In Uganda, the business community, government and civil society groups are coming together to strengthen the protection of human rights. On Friday 18 August, we had the privilege of addressing a group of Ugandan business leaders on how to put…
What Can Be Done about Maternal Mortality in Uganda?
AfricLaw (June 3, 2016): Uganda: Why the Constitutional Court Should Rule on the Right to Health, by Michael Addaney:Responding to the shocking statistic that thirteen women giving birth in Uganda die each day due to circumstances that could be prevented…
Making Abortion Safer in Uruguay
New York Times (June 28, 2016), From Uruguay, a Model for Making Abortion Safer, by Patrick Adams:The scourge of Zika has put pressure on Latin American countries to reconsider their restrictions on abortion. Uruguay in particular presents a picture…
Uganda Tightens Foreign Adoption Rules to Thwart Child Trafficking
By Family Law
From Reuters:Child rights campaigners in Uganda have welcomed a new law that restricts fast-track foreign adoptions in which children – often with living parents – can be whisked overseas in a matter of days. Lawmakers passed a bill this week…
Juma of Itanda
By Jerrold Long
Uganda Bride Price: One Woman’s Battle for Equal Rights
By Family Law
From CNN:
Florence Musidika was a primary school teacher in an unhappy and violent marriage. In 2002 she asked her husband for a divorce. In response, as she bent over one morning to light a fire to make breakfast for
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Ugandan Families Tricked into Adoption
By Family Law
From Catholic Online:Ugandan families have been bribed, tricked or coerced into giving up their children to U.S. citizens and other foreigners for adoption, a Thomson Reuters Foundation investigation has found.
Leaked documents, court data, and a series of exclusive interviews
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“One in 10 girls worldwide face serious sexual violence”
By John Kang
….according to UNICEF. More: About one in 10 girls around the world experiences serious sexual violence, the UN children's agency has said in a major report detailing the "staggering extent" of sexual, physical and emotional abuse faced byyoung…