Understanding Breast “Ironing”
Breast “ironing” or “flattening” is a practice that impacts 1:4 Cameroonian girls and women, in which a heated object such as a grinding stone or pestle is used to massage or press a girl’s breasts to retard or reverse breast development. The practice seeks to prolong...
Milk Matters
This report presents the findings of two cohort studies assessing the impact of small-scale livestock interventions, designed to sustain access to and availability of animal milk at the household level over the dry season, on the nutritional status of children under 5 years of age.
Life in Town: Migration from rural Karamoja to Moroto and Mbale
Migration from rural Karamoja to towns, cities and other rural areas has long been part of local livelihood strategies, but attention to this phenomenon by national and international actors in Uganda has grown in recent years. Much of this attention is focused on the...
The Dust Has Not Yet Settled: Victims’ Views on The Right to Remedy and Reparation
This report outlines the views and priorities of victims of serious violations of human rights law and international humanitarian law which resulted from the conflict between the Government of Uganda and the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army,