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Uganda “Get the Gun!” Human Rights Violations by Uganda’s National Army in Law Enforcement Operations in Karamoja Region
HRW Index No.: A1913 September 11, 2007 Download PDF, 729 KB, 99 pgs Purchase online Download E-Book Letting Them Fail Government Neglect and the Right to Education for Children Affected by AIDS This 55-page report is based on firsthand testimony from dozens of children in three countries hard-hit by HIV/AIDS: South Africa, Kenya, and Uganda. It documents how governments fail children affected by AIDS when they leave school or attempt to return. Churches and community-based organizations provide critical support to these children, but these groups frequently operate with little government support or recognition. HRW Index No.: A1713 October 11, 2005 Download PDF, 372 KB, 59 pgs Purchase online Uprooted and Forgotten Impunity and Human Rights Abuses in Northern Uganda This 76-page report documents how the ongoing lack of accountability and civilian protection in the north has fueled atrocities by both sides. In each of the displaced persons camps visited, Human Rights Watch found cases of abuse by Ugandan government forces as well as rebel combatants. HRW Index No.: A1712 September 20, 2005 Download PDF, 410 KB, 78 pgs Purchase online The Less They Know, the Better Abstinence-Only HIV/AIDS Programs in Uganda This 80-page report documents the recent removal of critical HIV/AIDS information from primary school curricula, including information about condoms, safer sex and the risks of HIV in marriage. Draft secondary-school materials state falsely that latex condoms have microscopic pores that can be permeated by HIV, and that pre-marital sex is a form of “deviance.” HIV/AIDS rallies sponsored by the U.S. government spread similar falsehoods. HRW Index No.: A1704 March 30, 2005 Download PDF, 466 KB, 81 pgs Purchase online State of Pain Torture in Uganda This 76-page report documents cases of torture committed by military, intelligence, and security agents in the government’s pursuit of armed rebels. However, politicians challenging the de facto single-party state and the 18-year rule of Uganda’s president, Yoweri Museveni, are often detained, severely beaten and threatened with death by the uncontrolled security apparatus. HRW Index No.: A1604 March 29, 2004 Download PDF, 224 KB, 76 pgs Purchase online Uganda: Child Soldier Use 2003 A Briefing for the 4th UN Security Council Open Debate on Children and Armed Conflict In March 2003, Human Rights Watch documented on-going recruitment of children into Local Defence Units (LDUs), which were intended to provide security to local villages, but were reportedly used to fight with the Ugandan People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) against the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) in northern Uganda, and even in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Sudan. Recent reports from Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers partners on the ground indicated on-going child recruitment into the UPDF, including of children who had escaped from the LRA. January 16, 2004 Just Die Quietly Domestic Violence and Women's Vulnerability to HIV in Uganda The Ugandan government's failure to protect women from domestic violence and discrimination increases women's risk of contracting HIV. This 77-page report documents widespread rape and brutal attacks on women by their husbands in Uganda, where a specific domestic violence law has not been enacted and where spousal rape is not criminalized. Many women told Human Rights Watch that a fear of violent repercussions impeded their access to HIV/AIDS information, HIV testing, and HIV/AIDS treatment and counseling. The Human Rights Watch report says that HIV/AIDS programs focusing on fidelity, abstinence, and condom use do not account for the ways in which domestic violence inhibits women's control over sexual matters in marriage. In the report, Human Rights Watch urges the Ugandan government to enact domestic violence legislation, and to make women's health, physical integrity, and equal rights in marriage a central focus of AIDS programming. HRW Index No.: A1515 August 13, 2003 Download PDF Purchase online Abducted and Abused Renewed War in Northern Uganda Abductions, torture, recruitment of child soldiers, and other abuses have sharply increased in the past year in northern Uganda due to renewed fighting between Ugandan government forces and rebels, a coalition of national and international organizations. This 73-page report details how a slew of human rights abuses have resulted in a humanitarian crisis. Since June 2002, the rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) has abducted nearly 8,400 children and thousands more adults, a sharp rise from 2001. The LRA has also escalated the seventeen-year war against northern Uganda's civilians by targeting religious leaders, aid providers, and those living in internally displaced persons (IDP) camps. The report draws on interviews with recently abducted children who escaped from the LRA. It gives voice to internally displaced persons living in the IDP camps that have been attacked by the LRA, and the aid workers attempting to reach these victims despite frequent LRA ambushes on relief convoys. HRW Index No.: A1512 July 15, 2003 Download PDF Purchase online Stolen Children: Abduction and Recruitment in Northern Uganda Children are being abducted in record numbers in northern Uganda by the rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), Human Rights Watch said in a new report released today. The children are subjected to brutal treatment as soldiers, laborers and sexual slaves. Since June of 2002, an estimated 5,000 children have been abducted-a striking increase from 2001, when fewer than 100 children were abducted. In total, an estimated 20,000 children have been abducted during the 16-year conflict between the LRA and the Ugandan government. Children abducted by the LRA are frequently beaten, and forced to carry out raids, burn houses, beat and kill civilians, and abduct other children. They must carry heavy loads over long distances and work long hours as virtual slaves. Many are given weapons training and some are used to fight the Ugandan army, the Uganda People's Defense Force (UPDF). Girls are sexually enslaved as "wives" to LRA commanders, and subjected to rape, unwanted pregnancies, and the risk of sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV/AIDS. The LRA uses brutal tactics to demand obedience from abducted children. Children are forced to beat or trample to death other children who attempt to escape, and are repeatedly told they will be killed if they try to run away. HRW Index No.: 1507A March 28, 2003 Download PDF Purchase online Hidden in Plain View: Refugees Living Without Protection In Nairobi And Kampala "Hidden in Plain View," is based on 150 in-depth interviews with refugees from Ethiopia, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Rwanda, Somalia, Sudan and elsewhere. Refugees described being subjected to beatings, sexual violence, harassment, extortion, arbitrary arrests and detention. The perpetrators are criminals, persecutors trailing them from their countries of origin, and even the Kenyan police and Ugandan military. The refugees have no option but to sleep on the streets or in unsafe shelters, leaving them vulnerable to violence and illness, according to the Human Rights Watch report. Since international relief efforts are minimal, food is scarce and medical treatment is difficult to obtain. HRW Index No.: 2815 November 21, 2002 Download PDF Purchase online Uganda: Child Soldiers Global Report 2001 From the Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers There are continuing reports of government recruitment of child soldiers despite legislation to the contrary. Several opposition forces, especially the Lord’s Resistance Army, forcibly abduct children as young as nine who are compelled to fight and to serve as domestics and sex slaves. In April 2001 the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights reported that about one third of the more than 26,000 cases of abduction recorded to date in Uganda involved children under the age of 18.[2] In February 2001, child soldiers recruited from the Democratic Republic of Congo were handed over to UNICEF by the Government of Uganda for reunification with their families. However, an agreement between the governments of Sudan, Uganda, Egypt and Canada has seen little progress in freeing children held by the LRA in camps located in Sudan. June 12, 2001 Uganda in Eastern DRC: Fueling Political and Ethnic Strife Ugandan authorities have fueled political and ethnic strife in eastern Congo with disastrous consequences for the local population. In this fifty-page report, "Uganda in Eastern DRC: Fueling Political and Ethnic Strife," documents how Ugandan authorities meddled in rivalries among factions of the rebel Congolese Rally for Democracy (RCD). HRW Index No.: A1302 March 1, 2001 Download PDF Purchase online Not a Level Playing Field: Government Violations in the Lead-Up to the Election There are serious human rights concerns in the lead-up to Uganda's March 12, 2001 presidential elections that shed doubt on whether the election will be free and fair. Not only is President Yoweri Museveni relying on a biased legal framework, but he is also using the state machinery to obstruct a transparent and fair electoral process. HRW Index No.: A1301 February 1, 2001 Purchase online Uganda: Government Human Rights Commissions in Africa The Uganda Human Rights Commission (UHRC), established under the 1995 constitution, is a permanent independent body with quasi-judicial powers. It is one of the most active and autonomous state commissions in Africa, contributing significantly towards the respect of human rights, despite limited resources. The UHRC has broad powers that allow it to subpoena information, order the releases of detainees, and order payment of compensation for abuses, but it may not intervene in cases pending before a court. The UHRC has generally fostered a collaborative working relationship with local and international human rights groups and has not shied away from taking on sensitive issues such as abuses by the security forces. The commissioners have publicly called on other government agencies to take action in a number of areas including a treason trial, abductions, police brutality, and prison conditions. January 1, 2001 UGANDA: Landmine Monitor Report 2000 Key developments since March 1999: The Mine Ban Treaty entered into force for Uganda on 1 August 1999. There have been allegations of Ugandan use of mines in the Democratic Republic of Congo, particularly in the June 2000 battle for Kisangani. Uganda denies any use. There is evidence of use of antipersonnel mines in 1999 and early 2000 by Lord's Resistance Army rebels entering Uganda from Sudan. There is no organized mine clearance underway in Uganda, but mine awareness activities are better coordinated and expanding. Mine casualties dropped significantly in 1999. Uganda has not submitted its Article 7 report, due on 28 January 2000. August 1, 2000 Hostile to Democracy The Movement System and Political Repression in Uganda Government harassment and discriminatory legislation are suppressing independent political activity in Uganda, Human Rights Watch charged in a report released today. President Yoweri Museveni and his ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) are likely to entrench this restrictive system even further in a referendum scheduled for June 2000.At the same time, the report recognizes that Uganda had made significant progress in many reas of human rights. HRW Index No.: 1-56432-239-4 October 1, 1999 Purchase online The Scars of Death Children Abducted by the Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda The Scars of Death documents the abduction and killing of children in northern Uganda by a rebel group calling itself the Lord's Resistance Army. The heavily-armed rebels abduct children as young as eight from their schools and homes. Once abducted, the children undergo a brutal initiation into rebel life. Those who survive the journey are given rudimentary military training and then forced into combat against the Ugandan army and the rebel Sudan People's Liberation Army. Many of the children are killed during the fighting. HRW Index No.: 1-56432-221-1 September 1, 1997 Purchase online The Scars of Death Children Abducted by the Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda In northern Uganda, thousands of children are victims of a vicious cycle of violence, caught between a brutal rebel group and the army of the Ugandan government. The rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) is ostensibly dedicated to overthrowing the government of Uganda, but in practice the rebels appear to devote most of their time to attacks on the civilian population: they raid villages, loot stores and homes, burn houses and schools, and rape, mutilate and slaughter civilians unlucky enough to be in their path. The rebels prefer children of fourteen to sixteen, but at times they abduct children as young as eight or nine, boys and girls alike. They tie the children to one another, and force them to carry heavy loads of looted goods as they march them off into the bush. Children who protest or resist are killed. Children who cannot keep up or become tired or ill are killed. Children who attempt to escape are killed. In effect, children abducted by the Lord's Resistance Army become slaves: their labor, their bodies and their lives are all at the disposal of their rebel captors. September 1, 1997 Download PDF, 665 KB, 167 pgs Printer friendly version
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