Overview
- The first volume on child maltreatment in Africa written by scholars within their own country
- Examines issues both specific to the Ugandan contexts as well as broadly experienced in child maltreatment work in non-Euro-American countries
- Provides a unique emic perspective on addressing issues related to children’s right
Part of the book series: Child Maltreatment (MALT, volume 6)
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Research and Theory
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Community and Child Protection
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Culturally Specific Forms of Child Maltreatment
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Responses to Child Maltreatment
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Keywords
- Children and Domestic Water Collection in Rural Uganda
- Prevention and Response to Violence Against Children
- Workforce for Uganda’s Local Governments
- Education in the Reintegration of Children
- Problems with Uganda’s Juvenile Justice System
- Child Rights Abuse and Neglect in Uganda’s HIV/AIDS
- Social Stigma towards Children of Prisoners
- Community and Child Protection in Uganda
- Promoting Child Protection
- Improving Alternative Care for Neglected and Child Survivors
- Human Rights in Uganda
- Deprivation of Childhood in Uganda
- Culturally Specific Forms of Child Maltreatment
- maternal and child health
- childhood studies
About this book
Exploring areas from the protection of street children to cultural proverbs related to child maltreatment, this volume examines issues both specific to the Ugandan contexts as well as broadly experienced in child maltreatment work in non-Euro-American countries. This book surveys the breadth of the child protection field, covering issues of children’s universal rights, challenges of protection and ethical quandaries in researching and addressing maltreatment.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr. Eddy J. Walakira lectures at Makerere University in the Department of Social Work and Social Administration, School of Social Sciences. He holds a PhD from the University of Vienna in Social and Cultural Anthropology. He obtained a Masters in Development Studies and a Postgraduate Diploma in Children and Youth from the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) of Erasmus University, Netherlands. He holds a Bachelor in Social Work and Social Administration from Makerere University. He lectures and researches mostly on issues of vulnerable children and youth. He has offered advisory services to several international organisations and local NGOs in Africa working with Children and Youth particularly on themes linked to child rights, child protection, social protection, child labour, HIV and AIDS, youth empowerment, programming for children and youth, and upward policy analysis and advocacy. He has been instrumental in leading teams in the development of national action plans on Orphans and other vulnerable children, and the development of practice focused curricula for mid-career and long serving professionals in the field of child protection, and alternative care for children.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Child Abuse and Neglect in Uganda
Editors: David Kaawa-Mafigiri, Eddy Joshua Walakira
Series Title: Child Maltreatment
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48535-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-48534-8Published: 27 January 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-83964-6Published: 13 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-48535-5Published: 20 January 2017
Series ISSN: 2211-9701
Series E-ISSN: 2211-971X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVII, 338
Number of Illustrations: 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Child Well-being, Human Rights, Maternal and Child Health, Childhood, Adolescence and Society, Social Work