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Gender Violence In Uganda Essay

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The situation in Northern Uganda is an impoverished post conflict region that was confronted with challenges on gender imbalances, intensified by the war that succeeded on immense physical, sexual and psychological violence against women and men. From 1986 to 2007, the region was very much affected by a brutal war between the self - proclaimed 'Lord's Resistance Army' (LRA) and the Uganda People's Defence Forces of the Government of Uganda. The population suffered casualties of irregular warfare, apart from human and arms trafficking, abductions, child sex slavery and loss of men and boys through forced recruitment, but nearly more than a million people were displaced from their ancestral homes by the Government of Uganda and moved to Internally Displaced Persons' (IDPs) camps. Finally, the GoU and LRA signed the Agreement of Accountability and …show more content…

As a consequence, certain forms of violence against genders that are considered 'inferior' or secondary, is a normalised aspect of social dynamics and interaction. Studies on GBV, focusing on violence against women, show violence can happen at any stages of one’s life – cycle, though the nature of vulnerability and one’s access to protection may change over their life time. It generally includes but not limited to; sex-selective abortion, differential access to food and services, sexual exploitation and abuse, including trafficking, child marriage, female genital mutilation/cutting, sexual harassment, dowry/bride price abuse, honour killing, domestic or intimate partner violence, deprivation of inheritance or property, forced recruitment to become soldier and elder abuse. During instances of prolonged violent armed conflict, as experienced in Northern Uganda during the insurgency, widespread sexual violence is used as a weapon of war to destabilise and control

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