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
- The term child work refers to light activities done by children within their homes under the observation and supervision by their families in an environment free of exploitation.
- Child work allows children to learn the roles they are expected to take on during adulthood.
- Activities such as cooking, washing and fetching firewood and water, sweeping, washing clothes and looking after animals are acceptable as a process of learning and a means of transmitting skills from parents to children.
Note: if the above work is excessive and interferes with the child’s development then it is child labour.
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The family and children courts are a court set up in every district and every other local government unit. This court is led by a magistrate who is not below Grade II.
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