{"id":33715,"date":"2016-06-02T15:10:13","date_gmt":"2016-06-02T15:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=33715"},"modified":"2021-11-11T15:24:04","modified_gmt":"2021-11-11T15:24:04","slug":"uganda-children-act-1997-amended-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/uganda-children-act-1997-amended-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Uganda: Children Act 1997 (amended 2016)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[section 4 substituted by the Children (Amendment) Act, 2016 (Act 9 of 2016)]<\/p>\n<p>4. Rights of the child<br \/>\n(1) Every child shall have the right to\u2014<br \/>\na) live with his or her parent or guardian;<br \/>\nb) where capable, express his or her view, belief or opinion on any matter that affects his or her wellbeing;<br \/>\nc) access any information to which a parent, guardian or other person in authority deems critical to the child\u2019s well-being;<br \/>\nd) to be registered after birth;<br \/>\ne) a name and nationality;<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Download full act: <a href=\"https:\/\/ulii.org\/akn\/ug\/act\/statute\/1996\/6\/eng%402016-06-02\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/ulii.org\/akn\/ug\/act\/statute\/1996\/6\/eng%402016-06-02<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[section 4 substituted by the Children (Amendment) Act, 2016 (Act 9 of 2016)] 4. Rights of the child (1) Every child shall have the right to\u2014 a) live with his or her parent or guardian; b) where capable, express his or her view, belief or opinion on any matter that affects his or her wellbeing; [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-uganda","type-national-laws-and-regulations","item-year-395","item-theme-acquisition-by-children","item-theme-birth-registration"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33715","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=33715"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33719,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33715\/revisions\/33719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}