Platform for Labour Action (PLA) is a National Civil Society Organization that was founded in the year 2000. PLA is focused on promoting and protecting the rights of vulnerable and marginalized workers through empowerment of communities and individuals in Uganda.
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- Local councils must safeguard and promote the welfare of the children in their areas or villages. The secretary for children’s affairs is given this responsibility in every local council.
- The secretary for children affairs has the power to mediate or resolve issues in any situation where the rights of a child being abused.
- To provide for the safety, welfare, and education of children whose parents, guardians or other persons responsible for bringing up the child do not carry out the duty of providing education and guidance.
- To provide assistance and accommodation for any child who comes to it after being lost or abandoned or seeking refugee within its area.
- To report and look for the parent or guardian of any lost or abandoned child in their area. The local government council is required to use all methods including the mass media such as radio.
- To return the lost or abandoned child to the place where he or she lives.
Labour officer - stop the employment of children by withdrawing and ordering the employers to stop the employment of children
Police – child and family protection unit.
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- Category: Child Labour
- Child slavery, debt bondage and serfdom;
- The sale and trafficking of children for labour;
- The use of children in armed conflict;
- Procurement and offering/sale of children for prostitution and pornography.
- Children working in fishing activities
- Children in commercial sexual exploitation
- Children carrying out activities on the streets and in the urban informal sector.
- Children working on construction sites
- Children working on farms and agricultural plantations
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- Category: Child Labour
- It is the responsibility of any member of the community who has information that a child’s rights are being abused to report this to the local government council.
- When a member of the community has information that a parent, guardian or person responsible for bringing up a child is able, but refuses to provide the child with enough food, housing, shelter, clothes, medical or education, the community member must report the parent, guardian, or person responsible for bringing up the child.
- Any person, including a labour union or employer’s organization, can report any person employing a child in work that is not light work.
- It is, therefore, everyone’s responsibility to report child labour or child exploitation.
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