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The effects of a 2012 project continue to be felt in northern Uganda. Some volunteers are local leaders who have learned counseling is better than 12 strokes of the cane to resolve household disputes. Story provided by our partner, Global Press Institute.
Reintegration is hard for all child soldiers in northern Uganda who were abducted and forced to commit atrocities for insurgents. For girls who also had to marry and have children with rebels, the social rejection can be particularly acute.
Wearing white for peace, a Ugandan women’s advocacy group has appealed to the United Nations amid a violent police crackdown on protesters. Ten have been killed, 100 injured and 600 arrested since April, a rights group says.