By Ben Musange
08th February 2023
The Deputy Speaker of Parliament Thomas Tayebwa has implored legislators to consider issues affecting children with disabilities in their legislative agenda including budgets to facilitate their activities.
While officiating at the launch of Uganda Children’s Legislative Agenda organised by the Uganda Parliamentary Forum for Children, Tayebwa noted that concerns of children living with disabilities like access to Education, Healthcare, legal and social services must be given serious consideration.
He further expressed concern over the persistent violation of children’s rights where Uganda is ranked 16 in the 25 countries leading in child labour, and statistics from the UNFPA for 2021 show that a total of over 354,000 teenage pregnancies happened in 2020, over 290,000 teenage pregnancies happened between January and September 2021 indicating that 320,000 cases where recorded per month globally.
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