(1) Intensify efforts to raise awareness among both women and men, including through educational and media campaigns, with the active participation of women's organizations and women human rights defenders, of the criminal nature of gender-based violence against women, in order to challenge its social acceptance and to destigmatize and protect women from reprisals so as to encourage them to report incidents of gender-based violence against women, and of the specific risk of gender-based violence posed to women and girls facing intersecting forms of discrimination, such as lesbian, bisexual, and transgender women and girls, intersex persons, migrant, refugee and asylum-seeking women and girls, women and girls with disabilities and women and girls with albinism; (2) Eradicate the practice of “child sacrifice” and systematically prosecute and punish perpetrators of that crime under the Children (Amendment) Act of 2016 and the Penal Code; (3) Adopt the sexual offences bill without delay to amend the Penal Code to specifically criminalize marital rape, base the definition of rape on the absence of free consent and ensure that penalties for gender-based violence against women are commensurate with the gravity of the offences; (4) Ensure that sufficient numbers of shelters and victim support services are adequately funded through the State budget, accessible and inclusive, that staff are adequately trained and that the quality of services is regularly monitored; (5) Collect comprehensive data and link it to the National Gender-based Violence Database, disaggregated by age, sex, relationship between the victim and the perpetrator and other sociodemographic characteristics, such as disability, to better inform policies and strategies to combat gender-based violence against women and girls, including sexual violence.

(1) Implement the Prevention of Trafficking in Persons Act of 2009 and collect data on trafficking, disaggregated by sex, age, nationality, ethnicity, disability and socioeconomic status to assess the impact of the Act, raise awareness in all communities of the Act and strengthen victim assistance and witness protection and victim referral pathways in accordance with the national referral guidelines for the management of victims of trafficking; (2) Reinforce the regulatory regime for recruitment agencies for migrant workers, continue efforts to put a stop to unlicensed agencies, prosecute and punish perpetrators of illegal practices and provide redress to women migrant workers who are victims of such practices, including consular services for Ugandan women migrant workers abroad; (3) Ensure that traffickers and their accomplices are prosecuted and adequately punished and provide information on prosecution and conviction rates in trafficking cases in its next periodic report under the Convention; (4) Continue to be vigilant in relation to combating the exploitation of girls in prostitution and child labour and to vigorously prosecuting and punishing perpetrators, and take effective measures to address and reduce the demand for commercial sex; (5) Ratify the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, which it has signed.

(1) Harmonize its civil, religious and customary laws in the areas of marriage and family relations through the adoption of an inclusive and comprehensive family law, prohibit polygamy under all legal systems in the State party, rigorously enforce the prohibition and ensure that children, including girls, born within polygamous unions have the same rights as children born within legally recognized unions; (2) Enforce the prohibition of child marriage, in particular in rural and remote areas and within traditional communities.