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[NEW YORK, 7 May 2007] - The present report has been prepared in accordance with the provisions of Security Council resolution 1612 (2005). It is presented to the Council and its Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict as the first country report on Uganda from the monitoring and reporting mechanism referred to in paragraph 3 of that resolution. The report, which covers the period from 8 June 2006 to 15 March 2007, specifies incidents of grave children’s rights violations and abuses, indicative of their nature and trends in Uganda. The report explicitly identifies parties to the conflict that were referred to in my 2006 report on children and armed conflict (S/2006/826 and Corr.1): the Uganda People’s Defence Forces and its allied local defence units, as well as the Lord’s Resistance Army. The report also contains a series of recommendations with a view to securing strengthened action for the protection of war-affected children in Uganda. Further information
The report highlights the work of the Uganda Task Force on Monitoring and Reporting in establishing relevant mechanisms to carry out its functions in accordance with Security Council resolution 1612 (2005) and the preliminary steps taken by the Government of Uganda to address violations against children, in particular the drafting of an action plan to eliminate the use and recruitment of children in armed conflict. The limited number of cases reported in the report is attributable to the fact that the Task Force was only recently in a position to rely on a network of monitors specifically trained to report on six grave violations and abuses of children’s rights in implementation of resolution 1612 (2005).