A new study undertaken in 13 refugee settlements in Uganda shows that more boys are adversely impacted by various bouts of violence.

The study report clustered the forms of violence into three categories of sexual, physical and emotional. Empirical evidence from the research shows that boys experienced more physical and emotional violence than their female counterparts.

Datapoints from the dataset that was put together between March and April 2022 as a “representative household survey of 13 to 24-year-old females and males” indicates that “the prevalence of violence against children in refugee settings in Uganda is high, with nearly half of females and males aged 18 to 24 years having experienced at least one form of violence (sexual, physical, or emotional) before age 18.”

The Uganda Humanitarian Violence Against Children and Youth Survey, 2022 released about a fortnight ago also indicates that “about a third (32 percent) of females and 40 percent of males aged 13 to 17 years experienced at least one form of violence in the past 12 months.”

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