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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- 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
A child is any person below the age of 18 years. This is according to the constitution of the Republic of Uganda and reinforced by the employment act and the children’s act.
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- Category: Child Labour
- Work when they are very young.
- Work for too little pay or no pay.
- Work in hazardous conditions.
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11 June, 2020
INTRODUCTION As the world commemorates the International Day Against Child labour on Friday, 12th June 2020 under the theme; “COVID-19: Protect children from child labour, now more than ever”, PLA takes stock of the situation of child labour in the wake of COVID-19.
COVID-19 has plunged the world into a crisis of unprecedented scope and...
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