Uganda: International community must avert growing crisis as number of South Sudanese refugees reaches a million


       In addition to the commitments made at the Uganda solidarity summit, states have obligations under international human rights law and refugee law to provide support to each other to host refugees, known as ‘responsibility sharing’. This includes significantly increasing funding to enable access basic services such as food, water, sanitation, shelter, education and healthcare
       The international community must also consider longer term solutions, including increasing the number of resettlement places in other countries and establishing other avenues to allow people to leave the region safely such as: community sponsorship, work and student visas.
       Over 64% of refugees are children under the age of 18. Together with women, they make up 86% of the entire refugee population in Uganda.
       The full list of Amnesty International recommendations is featured in the report: Uganda: “Help has not reached me here”: Donors must step up support for South Sudanese refugees in Uganda
       A podcast by Sarah Jackson on the crisis in South Sudan is available here.