Resource List Reports by NGOs

1) Xpose Uganda's Genocide is a coalition campaign created to bring to light the truth about the despotic regime of Yoweri Museveni and the ongoing secret genocide in northern Uganda, with the aim of advocating for the restoration of human rights and peace.
; please visit http://www.exposeugandasgenocide.blogspot.com

2) Victims of the 20 year war in Uganda have been almost exclusively civilians. They have been killed, abducted, mutilated and sexually violated by the LRA; Uganda’s national army, the Uganda People’s Defense Force (UPDF) has similarly committed massive human rights abuses, including murders and rapes against the civilians. Atrocities by both sides are well documented, including in the recent June 2007 report, "Making Peace our Own," by the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR); please see http://www.ohchr.org/english/docs/northern_Uganda_august2007.pdf

3) "Not a Crime to Talk, Give Peace a Chance" Legal Analysis of Legitimacy of the Peace Talks, Vs ICC indictments
http://www.refugeelawproject.org/resources/papers/others/press.Juba.pdf Both Human Rights Focus and Refugee Law Project, the latter with an office at Makerere University, Uganda Faculty of Law give reasons why the Peace Talks hosted by Government of South Sudan are legitimate and important. Legal reasons given include the UN Charter's emphasis on settling conflicts by peaceful means and The Rome Statute's Principle of Responsibility. Most importantly to emphasize peace is not to ignore justice.

4) Friends for Peace in Africa, www.friendsforpeaceinafrica.org interactive website and news, includes videos, interviews, press report with former UN Under-Secretary General, Children and Armed Conflict, Dr. Olara Otunnu (Sept 05 address, Lehman College)

5) Karen Parker Assessment, Forced Displacement in Northern Uganda Legal assessment brought before UN sub-commission on Protection of Human Rights
http://www.webcom.com/hrin/parker/sub01wsu.html This one page assessment reports on such subjects as UPDF Ugandan defense force impunity, no justice in the camps for imprisoned people of the North, statistics on "protection" such as 40-50 troops used to "protect" 50,000 people against LRA abduction in one camp, how the Rights given to Ugandans in their Constitution do not apply in the North.

6) Foreign Policy in focus/peace talks �U.S. Ambivalence Undermining Historic Uganda Peace Talks� pushing the U.S. to take a Stand and ACT (http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/3425)

7) "Cost of War": by Coalition of 50 Civil Society Organizations for Peace with Support of OXFAM
http://www.oxfam.org/en/policy/briefingnotes/report_CSOPNU_nuganda_060330 A PDF file is attached to this 3 page summary report that details the misery of the mainly Acholi (also Teso and Lango people) over a 20 year time period. Graphs are used to look at the cost of war on Uganda's budget, needless loss of life, (1,000 per week due mainly to squalid camp conditions) destruction of peoples' of the North including lack of education for 250,000 children. A list of policy recommendations are included in the summary for Gov of Uganda, International Community and LRA. Among recommendations include Responsibility to Protect, UN Resolution 1653 which must be implemented, as well as control of arms must be stopped to all parties.

8) "Generation at Risk, Acholi Youth in Northern Uganda" Liu Institute at University of British Columbia, Gulu NGO Forum
http://www.ligi.ubc.ca/?p2=modules/liu/publications/view.jsp&id=17A Generation at Risk presents the voices and experiences of internally displaced youth (IDY) and their protection needs while living in the Gulu District of Northern Uganda. The report found three main factors that foster IDY vulnerabilities. First, the Lord�s Resistance Army (LRA) and Uganda�s People Defense Force (UPDF) often recruit youth into their forces. Their age group is viewed as ideal fighters or �wives.� Second, IDY are often the labor force in their communities, making them responsible for sustaining family members; when trying to fulfill these obligations this group is susceptible to a series of physical threats and dangers, including widespread sexual abuse. Suicide also not uncommon.

9) http://hrw.org/reports/2003/uganda0303/uganda0403-04.htm Original sources given by Church of Uganda interviews by HRW researchers Legislation Against the Use of Child Soldiers before House International Relations Committee. The Recruitment of Children into the Local Defense Units and Their Use by the UPDF Ugandan government forces who also recruit children. Typically, children are recruited into the Local Defense Units (LDUs), also known as "home guards, "which are intended to provide security for local villages or camps. However, after being trained, many children do not return to their home areas and are reportedly used to fight with the UPDF against the LRA. The use of LDUs outside their home areas led one activist to note, "It is the broadest definition of the word `local' when describing the activities of the LDUs in the Congo or the Sudan.

10) Amnesty International, www.amnestyusa.org , Small Arms Trafficking, Lord of War film, child soldiers, DRC, Uganda Report

11) Human Rights Watch, www.hrw.org �Uprooted and Forgotten,� human rights abuses by both sides in conflict, lack of civilian protection in camps, UNICEF documentation.

12) Refugee Law Project, www.refugeelawproject.org Makerere University, Uganda Working Paper #11 Behind the Violence, Search for Solutions to War in Northern Uganda. Arming of ethnic based militias as government policy (Arrow Boys, Amuka, Frontier Guards),.Working Paper,# 13: �Child Protection, Northern Uganda�

13) Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children, http://www.womenscommission.org/pdf/Ug_Resil.pdf Update on Child and Adolescent Night Commuters in N. Uganda (Feb, 05) Update, continued lack of security for night commuters, incidence of sexual harassment and rape, girls dropping out of school, gangs.

14) International Rescue Committee, http://www.theirc.org/uganda New Mortality Survey, by WHO,IRC,Uganda's Ministry of Health, WFP, UNICEF 1,000 die weekly in displacement camps in Gulu, Kitgum, and Pader, from preventable conditions faced by 1.6 million in camps (malaria,HIV/AIDS,cholera, rapes) & war related violence, Uganda Testimony before US Congress

15) Alliance for African Assistance, www.alliance-for-africa.org Services provided in Gulu, Kitguma and Pader Districts in N. Uganda. (psychosocial, orphans aid., HIV/AIDS)