Encampment and Its Effects to the Surrounding and the Right to a Healthy Environment in Kapelebyong, Amuria District, Uganda.
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2011-11
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Kampala International University, School of law
Abstract
The people of Kapelebyong have been victims of cattle rusting, which has
culminated in the creation of the congested Camps in Kapelebyong. The camps have no
basic facilities such as schools, health centres, toilets and clean drinking water. This has
led to out breaks for diseases, high infant mortality and high levels of poverty due to
loss of the cattle to raiders and destruction of the surrounding environment.
The researcher concludes that the people of Kapelebyong and the surrounding
area do not enjoy aright to a healthy environment and recommends that the public be
sensitized on environment, education and all the necessary facilities be put in place by
government. The government must not close the camp but rather must get involved in
the provision of security and basic facilities.
This study concludes that in order to achieve the full recognition of the right to a
healthy environment in Kapelebyong, the following need to be done. In order to reverse
the situation in Kapelebyong which increasingly appears to be desertifying?
Training of experts in environmental management is absolutely necessary.
Sensitization of the public is long overdue. Awareness of the environment, its
pollutants, general damage, erosion and de-a forestation. The applicable laws should be
promoted in order to spur evolutional change in behaviour, technological investment
and institutional will to build the necessary infrastructure. In this connection, research,
information gathering and sharing regarding Kapelebyong must be encouraged to
create environmental awareness. This in turn calls for international and national
cooperation in environmental protection.
In order to move towards the realization of this right for the people of
Kapelebyong, it is important that the role of the individual and the public in general is
enhanced. Education, public awareness and uplifting of standards of living are
important ingredients in the realization of the right.
The government of Uganda, the international NGOs and the people of
Kapelebyong have a lot to learn from their own experiences and that of international
community in a bid to improve the environment and to prevent further degradation of
the environment in Kapelebyong amidst insecurity.
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A Thesis Paper presented to the School of Post Graduate Studies and Research Kampala International University Kampala, Uganda in partial fulfillment of the Requirements for The Award of Master’s Degree in Law.
Keywords
Environment, Healthy, Encampment, Amuria District