THE INSIGNIFICANT ROLE OF THE UNITED NATIONS IN COMBATING THE CHILD SOLDIERS RECRUITMENT IN UGANDA (2002-2006)

Abstract

This research aims to analyze the significant roles of the United Nations and its Agencies to help the situation in northern part of Uganda that cause by the Ugandan rebel group, Lord's Resistance Army in fight with the Government of Uganda since 1986. The Lord's Resistance Army is reported to recruit, abduct, and use children as their soldiers. This study is essential to deliver the issue of child soldiers and the role of UN in combating this issue. The timeframe of this research is from 2002 until 2006 to give an overview of the time when the Optional Protocol on the Rights of the Child on the Involvement of the Children in Armed Conflicted has come into force in Uganda, at the same time when the Lord's Resistance Army is actively abducting and recruiting the children. This research is descriptive research with qualitative approach and conducts the library research, by analyzing the reports and resolutions from the United Nations as Primary Source, and also the other journals and documents related with this issue as the additional source. This research explores the beginning of the problem until the United Nations showed its efforts in dealing with this issue as well as the role of the UN's Agencies in helping the victims.