Advocacy
Sustainable, equitable progress in the agreed global development agenda cannot be achieved without the inclusion of persons with disabilities. Having been isolated and largely rejected by families and communities, explosive ordnance survivors find a place within Disabled Persons Organisations (DPOs), where advocacy enables them to feel valued, find a sense of identity and from which they can help others like them.
Advocacy campaign in Uganda as a Party appears to be performing under par on its track to implementing its obligations, such as clearance, assistance to victims, mine risk education and treaty reporting, as explicitly required by 2008 Convention on Cluster Munitions and Mine Ban Treaty Article 7 report.
Reparations
Statistics put it between 60,000-90,000 victims of the LRA war responsible for plunging the region into abject poverty. Some reflections of these is the number and nature of crime reported at police. Youths shun traditional work in the garden opting to go drinking through the day. Little education attainment in most households is setting the future generation challenges of even acquiring blue collar jobs within their parishes and Sub Counties. Extenuating effect of the long conflict appears to be a sitting time bomb for the community and nation.
“Ironically, recent conviction against Domini Ongwen, implies reparations awarded to only those victims directly linked to ongwen registered areas of operations as prosecuted namely; Lukodi, Abok, Odek and Pajule respectively. It is no secret Atiak massacre, Barlonyo massacre, kitgum Matidi and several other atrocities were committed during the war, yet the Rome Statute cannot legally order such reparations.
