{"id":22628,"date":"2019-05-12T10:21:21","date_gmt":"2019-05-12T10:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=22628"},"modified":"2019-05-26T10:24:42","modified_gmt":"2019-05-26T10:24:42","slug":"uganda-govt-to-register-children-born-during-lra-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/uganda-govt-to-register-children-born-during-lra-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Uganda: Gov&#8217;t to register children born during LRA war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Carol Natukunda<\/p>\n<p>The government plans to roll out a special birth certificate registration programme for children born during the war in Northern Uganda.<\/p>\n<p>The decision follows estimates from a pilot study done in 2018 in the region, that showed that about 6,000 children were born during the Lord&#8217;s Resistance Army (LRA) war.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The groups that investigated this focused on returnees &#8212; mainly young women and girls who were abducted but returned with children. Some of them are victims of rape, sexual slavery, and forced marriages,&#8221; said Margaret Ajok, the technical advisor of transitional justice at the Justice Law and Order Sector (JLOS).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Beginning with the Financial Year 2019\/2020, we are going to allocate money to NIRA (National Identification\u00a0 and Registration Authority) to give instant birth certificates to this category of people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newvision.co.ug\/new_vision\/news\/1500173\/govt-register-children-born-lra-war\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.newvision.co.ug\/new_vision\/news\/1500173\/govt-register-children-born-lra-war<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Carol Natukunda The government plans to roll out a special birth certificate registration programme for children born during the war in Northern Uganda. The decision follows estimates from a pilot study done in 2018 in the region, that showed that about 6,000 children were born during the Lord&#8217;s Resistance Army (LRA) war. &#8220;The groups [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-uganda","type-news-articles","item-year-660","item-theme-acquisition-by-children","item-theme-birth-registration"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22628"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22631,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22628\/revisions\/22631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}