Source: http://allafrica.com/stories/201105020027.html
Angella Yebale, eight years old, (not real name because she is a minor) is not happy every time she hears a child has been neglected and killed.
It is difficult for her to believe that any person can go out of their way to insult and abuse a child.
As she shared her plight, she asked whether a mother who threw her two children in the River Nile has been punished and asked the government to enforce rules that protect children rights.
"Many children are abused. This day reminds me that we have rights and all children should know. I watched television and saw a woman who threw her children in a river," she said rather not amused.
A 26-year-old woman, in Kalagala village Kayunga District, on March 14, allegedly drowned her three children aged six, four and three-month-old in River Nile. The suspect has since been arrested.
A number of children attended the event organised by Uganda Local Governments Association (ULGA) at Kitante Primary School and tasked government to be firm on child sacrifice and abuse especially defilement, neglect and corporal punishment.
According to Ms Gertrude Rose Gamwera, ULGA secretary general, the event is to encourage children speak and ask what they feel the government, parents and leaders should do to improve their rights.
Winners for the year's World's Children's Prize for the Rights of the Child 2011 are: Cecilia Flores-Oebanda, from the Philippines, for her struggle against child labour, trafficking and her support for girls who have been sex slaves; Monira Rahman (Bangladesh) for her fight for girls - who have been attacked with acid or petrol and had their appearances ruined and Murhabazi Namegabe (DR Congo) for his work to free children forced to become child soldiers and bush war slaves.
It takes place every year since 2000 and it is coordinated by focal persons, teachers and organisations in different countries that signed the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.
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