{"id":4204,"date":"2014-07-17T17:46:35","date_gmt":"2014-07-17T10:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=4204"},"modified":"2014-07-17T17:46:52","modified_gmt":"2014-07-17T10:46:52","slug":"uganda-police-abuse-street-children-says-hrw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/uganda\/uganda-police-abuse-street-children-says-hrw\/","title":{"rendered":"Uganda police abuse street children, says HRW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Street children in Uganda face constant abuse from police and other government officials, a human rights group says.<\/p>\n<p>Police beat children with whips and wires, throw them into jail and extort bribes from them, a report by Human Rights Watch (HRW) said.<\/p>\n<p>Street boys and girls were also raped by men and older boys, it added.<\/p>\n<p>A Ugandan official, Mondo Kyateka, said some street children were &#8220;hard-core criminals&#8221; but police only used minimum force against them.<\/p>\n<p>The government should focus on improving the lives of street children, and prosecute those responsible for abusing them, HRW said.<\/p>\n<p>More than half of all Ugandans are under 15, and children are the single largest group living in poverty, HRW said&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Uganda News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-africa-28319499\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 News East Africa <a title=\"Uganda\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/uganda\/\">Uganda<\/a> News<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Street children in Uganda face constant abuse from police and other government officials, a human rights group says. Police beat children with whips and wires, throw them into jail and extort bribes from them, a report by Human Rights Watch (HRW) said. Street boys and girls were also raped by men and older boys, it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[745],"tags":[2878,258,256,4695,2880,2879,1463,1466,257,451,254,4707,2062],"class_list":["post-4204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uganda","tag-abuse-from-police","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-east-africa","tag-girls-raped","tag-girls-were-also-raped","tag-hrw","tag-human-rights-watch","tag-news","tag-raped","tag-south-africa-today","tag-uganda","tag-uganda-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}