Platform for Labour Action (PLA) is a National Civil Society Organization that was founded in the year 2000. PLA is focused on promoting and protecting the rights of vulnerable and marginalized workers through empowerment of communities and individuals in Uganda.
Lives impacted
years of service
Trafficking in persons is the illegal/unlawful movement of people from one place to another with the intention of exploitation.
For example
Village to town
Country to another country
Offences and punishments under the trafficking in persons act 2009
Imprisonment of fifteen years if it is an individual and for organisations and companies a fine of (one thousand currency points) twenty million Uganda shillings and temporary or permanent closure; deregistration, dissolution; disqualification from the practice of certain activities.
Aggravated trafficking in person- this is where a child is trafficked and it carries a penalty of life imprisonment
Trafficking in children- this is where children are used in armed conflicts or human rituals, organs removed and carry a penalty of death.
Engaging the labour or service of a victim of trafficking knowingly. This carries a penalty of imprisonment for ten years.
Promoting trafficking in person- this carries a penalty of a fine not exceeding (one hundred and twenty currency points) two million, four hundred thousand Uganda shillings or to imprisonment for five years, or both such imprisonment and fine
