This paper examines the social, economic, and political situation of urban refugees in Kampala. In Uganda, refugees are expected to become self-reliant, and refugees who live in refugee settlements are given initial assistance to help them achieve this objective. The majority of refugees who reside outside of settlements, however, are not eligible for such assistance.
The following report analyses the process of amnesty as characterised in Uganda’s Amnesty Act 2000. It does so primarily from the perspective of those who have experienced the process first hand – either as combatants who have come out of the bush and received legal and social pardon for their actions, or as community members who have suffered, both directly and indirectly, from the brutal impact of civil conflicts.
This paper examines the Government of Uganda’s (GoU) local settlement policy which requires refugees to live in formal camps, and examines its implications for refugees’ livelihoods and their enjoyment of their legal rights in Uganda.Based on field research in Arua and Moyo districts, findings below explore the relative positions of refugees residing in settlements as well as those who have left or avoided the settlement system altogether
Against the contextual backdrop of conflict and displacement in western Uganda and neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), this report highlights child protection issues in Ntoroko County, Bundibugyo District. Using participatory, qualitative methods, a team of six researchers gathered data from refugee and national adults and children in Kanara, Rwebisengo and Karagutu sub-counties.
This report considers the issues that led to the creation and eventual dissolution of the four main groups of insurgents that have operated in West Nile – the Former Uganda National Army (FUNA), the first Uganda National Rescue Front (UNRF), the UNRF II, and the West Nile Bank Front (WNBF).The conflict has been played out primarily within West Nile and has had a serious impact on the stability of the region.
BEHIND THE VIOLENCE: Causes, Consequences and the Search for Solutions to the War in Northern Uganda
The war in northern Uganda is now entering its eighteenth year. Initially rooted in a popular rebellion against President Yoweri Museveniís National Resistance Movement (NRM) government, the conflict has since been transformed by Joseph Konyís Lordís Resistance Army (LRA) into a brutally violent war in which civilians are the main victims
