According to activists, widow inheritance has forced many women into unwanted marriages with their late spouse's brothers or sons from another wife. The women are now demanding the right to choose their partners after their husband's death.
The Artisanal Miners who have been the main employers of children in the mines have agreed to join the fight against the exploitation of children and take them to school so that they have a better future. The miners formed a steering committee that oversees all the activities of the groups that are mining and protecting children from any form of abuse.
A locally-led mode of development assistance or localization is preferred because it allows local actors to implement activities based on the needs of the communities where the civil actors are based.
Charles Donaldson Ogira, the Coordinator for Karamoja Human Rights Network noted that there are several cases of land grabbing and extrajudicial killings which are not brought to the attention of the public in the region.
Before colonial times, the Karamojong had a system of regulating community rules led by the Council of Elders at the Akiriket. However, the powers of the traditional systems for regulating conflicts declined after the colonialists created a new structure of leadership that sidelined the elders.
Dr Doreen Kobusingye, the co-principal investigator at LEMU says that it is never too late to organize the communities and empower them with legal approaches to protecting their land and avert those who seek to exploit people and their environment.
John Bosco Akore, the secretary for Kotido Elders Council, says that the elders have eliminated all the bad cultures that violate the rights of women, and formulated bylaws to protect women against any harm.
Grace Pelly, the UN Human Deputy Country Director said that the major cases recorded include torture, arbitrary arrest during the cordon, and search operations against illegal guns.
The children heading families say that the inability to provide adequate food to feed the family forced them to drop out of school to find other alternatives for survival.
Micheal Longole, the Karamoja regional police spokesperson said the deployed forces along the borders will be checking all people who enter and go out of Uganda to Kenya and South Sudan via Karamoja routes.
Major Peter Mugisa, the UPDF 3rd Division spokesperson told URN on Sunday the weapons were recovered in cordon and search operations and sometimes through direct gunfire exchange between the rustlers and UPDF soldiers.