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Police continue investigating trafficking of Ugandan girls to Saudi Arabia

Isaac Senabulya — Tue, 26 Jan 2016 06:17:57 +0000

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Police has transferred to the Director of public prosecutions six case files of suspects alleged to be trafficking Ugandan girls to Saudi Arabia. Currently police is holding Halima Abdullah who is said to be running supreme security agency, one of the companies that export labor.

The police spokesperson Fred Enanga said that this group has been working for an Arab man identified as Mutab Pasha al Sumeri who sexually harasses the girls before selling them off. Enanga explains that upon investigation, police has learnt that 40 Ugandan girls have so far been taken to Saudi Arabia under this very company and 100 passports have been recovered from their offices.

Police continues the hunt for two other people who have been working for at the company to engage in human trafficking.

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East African Legislative Assembly passes motion on human trafficking

Isaac Senabulya — Thu, 20 Aug 2015 13:56:31 +0000

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East African Legislative Assembly has passed a motion that prevents trafficking of persons, protects victims of crime of trafficking and prosecution of the culprits of trafficking in persons in East Africa.

The motion has been moved by Uganda’s EALA representative Dora Byamukama and seconded by EALA Burundi MP Frederick Ngenzebuhoro during a session chaired by the EALA Speaker Dan Kidega. Byamukama says that the East African Member states have signed into the protocol to prevent, suppress, and punish trafficking in persons, especially women and children, which supplements the convention against transitional organized crime.

She says that trafficking of persons is a grave abuse of human rights and is caused by several issues which include; poverty, underdevelopment and unemployment because it promises the culprits a better life and better opportunities.

Former EALA Speaker Margret Nantongo Ziwa says trafficking of persons contributes a lot to underdevelopment of East African countries. The State Minister for East African Community Shem Bagaine says the immigration department needs to be strengthened to prevent the issue of trafficking in persons in East Africa.

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Call for proposals at UN.GIFT Small Grants

Grace — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 09:39:15 +0000

UN.GIFT Small Grants: UN.GIFT has established a Small Grants Facility with the overall objective to increase and improve support structures for victims of human trafficking around the world.

Through a Call for Proposals, relevant organizations will be identified and the most promising projects will be selected.

Civil society organizations will receive grants either to sustain existing anti-human trafficking initiatives or to engage in additional counter-trafficking activities.

In additions, the UN.GIFT website will provide a virtual forum for CSOs to promote their projects, to network with other stakeholders and to showcase their activities to the international community.

The following activities are a priority for UN.GIFT Small Grants:

The empowerment of vulnerable groups and communities
Direct victim support
Cooperation between NGOs from countries of origin and destination
Collection of evidence-based knowledge

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MPs want Uganda prisoners abroad to be repatriated

Gerald Businge — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 18:25:20 +0000

Members of Parliament want government to enter into treaties with other countries to repatriate Ugandans prisoners currently held in foreign prisons.

Mukono Municipality MP, Betty Nambooze Bakireke notes that countries such as Malaysia and China are holding in custody several Ugandans on charges of drug trafficking, murder and other crimes.

Nambooze says efforts by some of the Justice Ministries in these countries have tried to contact their Ugandan counterparts have been futile since the latter have not been receptive.

She says there should be an exchange programme where prisoners in foreign countries can serve their sentences in their home states.

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Government to define what constitutes pornography

Gerald Businge — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 13:51:07 +0000

Government ofUgandahas finally decided to come out publicly and explain to Ugandans what constitutes pornography. Information Minister, Karooro Okuruti says that perhaps this will stop Ugandans from promoting pornography.

She says that the government is going to explain pornography in both print and electronic mediums. Karooro also says that the government is drafting a bill that will stop the usage of pornographic materials in the Ugandan media.

Section 166 of the Penal Code Act forbids trafficking of pornographic materials in both print and electronic media. Currently Ugandan media houses are specializing in producing pornographic materials with a claim that they are so selling to the Ugandan young generation.

Karooro has also remindedUganda’s media managers that Ugandan cultures in diversity don’t accept promotion of pornography.

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Government to define what constitutes pornography

Gerald Businge — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 11:34:21 +0000

The Government of Uganda has finally decided to come out publicly and explain to Ugandans what constitutes pornography. Information Minister, Karooro Okuruti says that perhaps this will stop Ugandans from promoting pornography.

She says that the government is going to explain pornography in both print and electronic mediums. Karooro also says that the government is drafting a bill that will stop the usage of pornographic materials in the Ugandan media.

Section 166 of the Penal Code Act forbids trafficking of pornographic materials in both print and electronic media. Currently Ugandan media houses are specializing in producing pornographic materials with a claim that they are so selling to the Ugandan young generation.

Karooro has also reminded Uganda’s media managers that Ugandan cultures in diversity don’t accept promotion of pornography.

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