Countering Human Trafficking

Uganda is a source, transit and destination country for victims of Trafficking in Persons (TIP). Human trafficking in Uganda is exacerbated by diverse push unemployment, poverty, and pull demand for body organs, opportunities to work in urban centers, high demand for cheap labor, among others.

 Children, youth and women are Victims of TIP in Uganda who regularly face exploitation in different forms including but not limited to labor exploitation, sexual exploitation and sometimes, illegal organ harvesting and human sacrifices.

Majority of victims of TIP especially transnational TIP, are women and girls between the ages of 15 – 30 years who are trafficked mainly for labor exploitation purposes. victims of trafficking are not only subject to a specific type of exploitation but often times face a combination of different forms of cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment including sexual exploitation.

OUR PROGRAMS.          

OMUSDI ensures that all counter-trafficking work takes a gender-sensitive and child-friendly approach and addresses the situations of men as well as children and women in our sample, gender     roles have a powerful influence over         the type of work females and males engage in since they are not absolute.

We explore possibilities of engaging these sectors in efforts to prevent trafficking the vast majority of victims in our survey were transported using public means.

We incorporate teaching for trafficking in persons into the education curriculum to increase knowledge and awareness amongst children in schools. We link victims of trafficking to attainment of education for both girls and boys our strategy is to keep them in school longer for a better livelihood, education is protective and reduces ignorance among the victims.  

We Undertake research. On what makes some individuals, families and communities resilient to recruitment for trafficking in the face of many risk factors how victim opportunity before, during, and after being trafficked and exploited with a view to designing better services and improving interaction between victims, the law enforcement and judicial system; the impact of trafficking on families and communities; of victim support services with a view to creating a comprehensive strategy that can be used to identify gaps, improve coordination, and provide suitable  referrals system to victims.