Trafficking women for sexual slavery has become the second world ‘lucrative crimes’ after drug trafficking and arms deals with the highest number of women reported to come from Uganda. Uganda is a source and destination country for commercial sexual exploitation. Young girls and women are lured into sex trafficking within East Africa, Europe and Asian […]
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The Human Trafficking Ghost; It is getting worse by the day
Bridget was her name, she was about 18 going to 19, a child according to the Ugandan law. We had met a few times because she was a cousin to John, a former workmate who she visited every now and then at work. Bridget was orphaned when she was little and her mother struggled to […]
In the wake of Human Trafficking, what can we all do?
Parliament should draft and pass a law on externalisation of labour that will regulate the process, interpret the intricacies involved, provide a fund to help victims of trafficking in the guise of externalisation, create liaison offices in countries where Ugandans are exported to mention a fe