‘Arrest UPE defaulters’

Mar 25, 2003

CHILD rights advocates have urged the Government to enact laws to prosecute parents who do not enroll their children under the Universal Primary Education (UPE) programme.

By Denis Ocwich

CHILD rights advocates have urged the Government to enact laws to prosecute parents who do not enroll their children under the Universal Primary Education (UPE) programme.

They said this recently in a seminar at Hotel Equatoria, Kampala. The advocates said laxity by the local leaders had forced some children out of the UPE programme.

They asked local councils to enact by-laws stopping parents from keeping children at home.

They said the children were engaged in various forms of domestic labour.

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