The Crisis in Northern Uganda
Presentation of a living condition survey on Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Northern-Uganda

At this Fafo-breakfast the 6th of December the fafo-researchers Morten Bøås and Anne Hatløy presented the report The Northern Uganda Internally Displaced Persons Profiling Study which is conducted by Fafo in cooperation with UNDP, is the first systematic survey on the Northern Ugandan IDPs' living conditions. The report shows intolerable human conditions:

• 1.3 million people live in camps
• The camp residents are extremely poor, completely dependent on development aid
• The camps are attacked several times weekly and civilians outside camps are abducted
• The IDPs are constantly afraid, both inside and outside the camps
• 55 percent of IDPs believe the situation will be even worse next year
• Most IDPs are very young, more then 50 percent are under 15
• 25 percent of the children have lost one or two parents

In the panel were, Jens Petter Kjemprud from The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Marit Sørheim, from the Norwegian Refugee Council and Aina Bergstrøm from Redd Barna

See comment by Morten Bøås in Dagbladet 5 October, Flyktninger i fengsel

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