GLOBAL DATABASE ON VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLSCOUNTRY-PROFILEUGANDAMEASURESARTICLE 34 OF THE CONSTITUTION
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Article 34 of the Constitution
Type of Measure
Laws > Violence against women > Constitutional provision
Form of Violence
Violence against women and girls
Year
2005
Brief Description

Article 34 of the Constitution adopted in 1995, and amended in 2005, includes the following provisions:

(4) Children are entitled to be protected from social or economic exploitation and shall not be employed in or required to perform work that is likely to be hazardous or to interfere with their education or to be harmful to their health or physical, mental, spiritual, moral or social development.

Source of Information

Constitution of the Republic of Uganda 1995 (amended in 2005), UN Women Constitutional Database

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