Child Sacrifice In Uganda

EDM number 2438 in 2010-12, proposed by John Leech on 15/11/2011.
Categorised under the topics of Africa, Children and families and Human rights.

That this House condemns the abhorrent practice of child sacrifice in Uganda; notes with concern that between 2006 and 2010 only one person was found guilty despite 83 criminal cases and an estimated 900 murders of young people through child sacrifice; and urges the Ugandan government to implement the terms of both the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child which it has signed andto implement the recommendations of the Jubilee Campaign and Kyampisi Childcare Ministries' Child Sacrifice in Uganda report.

This motion has been signed by a total of 28 MPs.