• the UN estimates that up to 2 million people have been displaced by war in the whole country
• ongoing conflict violates children's rights to survival and development
• basic services such as health and education have broken down
• separated children from previous conflicts are still awaiting reunification

• conflict has led to destruction of the health infrastructure
• poverty, war, enlistment in the forces

Table of Contents
1. Preface
2. Summary of issues and action proposals
3. NGO/CSO views as expressed in their responses to the questionnaire

DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO: Council urges end to fighting

The UN Security Council on Thursday called on the Ugandan and Rwandan armies in the Katanga and Equateur provinces of the DRC to stop fighting and withdraw from both areas. In a statement presented to the press by the Council's president, Ambassador Sergey Lavrov

For more than a decade, civil strife has adversely affected northern Uganda, primarily the districts of Gulu and Kitgum. Since 1987, the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) has used Gulu and Kitgum as staging grounds for attacks on the Government of Uganda's military (UPDF) and civilians. Amidst intensified fighting in Gulu and Kitgum districts between UPDF forces and LRA rebels in late 1996, the UPDF encouraged the conflict-affected population to move into protective camps. By early 1997, more than one quarter of the population of

Attached herewith is a letter which the Government of Uganda would like to have circulated as a document of the Security Council (see annex).

(Signed) J. D. Semambo Kalema
for the Chargé d'affaires a.i.

Annex to the letter dated 29 December 2000 from the Chargé d'affaires a.i. of the Permanent Mission of Uganda to the United Nations addressed to the President of the Security Council

On instructions from my Government, I have the honour to draw the special attention of the Security Council to the resurgence of military activities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

My Government invites the Security Council to note for itself once again the arrogance with which Rwanda and Uganda

DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO: Fighting in the southeast

Rebels of the Rwandan-backed Rassemblement congolais pour la democratie (RCD)last week began fighting their way towards two key government supply lines with a view to taking control of the DRC's border with Zambia. Reuters on Sunday quoted Zambian, rebel and intelligence