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Purpose and legislative effect
“This section provides definitions for terms used in the Act, including “child”, “debt bondage”, “currency point”, “exploitation”, “forced labour”, “Gazette”, “human sacrifice”, “Minister”, “prostitution”, “public office”, “public officer”, “public service”, “pornography”, “sex tourism”, “sexual exploitation”, “slavery””
This section provides definitions for terms used in the Act, including “child”, “debt bondage”, “currency point”, “exploitation”, “forced labour”, “Gazette”, “human sacrifice”, “Minister”, “prostitution”, “public office”, “public officer”, “public service”, “pornography”, “sex tourism”, “sexual exploitation”, “slavery”, “slave trade”, “trafficking in persons”, and “victim of trafficking”. Prohibits any person from recruiting, transporting, transferring, harbouring or receiving a person for the purpose of exploitation; establishes penalties including death (for human sacrifice), life imprisonment, ten years imprisonment, and fines/closure for legal persons; trafficking of a child is an offence even without the specified means. Any person who commits aggravated trafficking in persons under specified circumstances (including victim being a child, organised syndicate, offenders who are relatives, public officers, military or law enforcement personnel, or acts involving harmful rituals or causing death/serious harm) is liable on conviction to imprisonment for life. Any person must not commit acts involving a child such as those listed (acts under section 2 in relation to a child; using a child in armed conflict; removing parts for human sacrifice; using a child to commit a crime; abandoning a child outside the country; or using a child or body part in witchcraft or rituals). Anyone who, knowing or having reason to believe a person is a victim of trafficking, engages that victim's labour or services commits an offence and faces up to ten years' imprisonment on conviction.
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This section provides definitions for terms used in the Act, including “child”, “debt bondage”, “currency point”, “exploitation”, “forced labour”, “Gazette”, “human sacrifice”, “Minister”, “prostitution”, “public office”, “public officer”, “public service”,…
Section 1
Any person is prohibited from committing or attempting various acts of trafficking in persons, including recruitment, transport, harbouring, matching for sexual exploitation, confiscation of documents to deny movement or services, and illicit adoption.
Section 7
Specified actors must recognise and respect the privacy of trafficking victims; certain publications identifying victims without authority are an offence punishable by a fine of two hundred fifty currency points.
Section 12
The Act applies to certain offences committed outside Uganda (including where the offender is a Ugandan citizen or permanent resident, where the victim is a Ugandan citizen, where the offence is partly inside and partly outside Uganda, or where substantial…
Section 18
Section 23 has been deleted by section 3(b) of General Notice 2917 of 2024.
Section 23
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Source and current-law status
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