Uganda And The Lord's Resistance Army

EDM number 1171 in 2010-12, proposed by Eric Joyce on 09/12/2010.
Categorised under the topics of Africa and Human rights.

That this House deplores the atrocities committed by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in Uganda, the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Central African Republic and Sudan, which include the systematic rape and mutilation of civilians and the kidnapping and abduction of thousands of children and young people; condemns the failure of the Ugandan government and the international community to bring Joseph Kony and the LRA leadership to justice; believes that this failure constitutes a humanitarian disaster which destabilises the region; recognises recent legislation on the LRA passed through the United States Congress in the week of 7 December 2010; urges the Government to make similar commitments; and calls on the Government to support the demobilisation of LRA members and act on the UK's duty as a State Party of the International Criminal Court(ICC)to help arrest Joseph Kony and those members of the LRA subject to ICC warrants.

This motion has been signed by a total of 32 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.