for infrastructural development. However, pastoralists' concerns have not yet been adequately addressed, due to the simple fact that pastoralist are not comprehensively consulted in the development of the programmes specifically designed for their region, hence the programmes are failing to meet the expectations and economic development of Karamoja. The economic disadvantage of the pastoralist is most felt by the marginalised and vulnerable pastoral women of Karamoja who are economically discriminated within their community due to cultural domains of power limiting them from inheriting resources and assets despite national legislation enforcing equitable inheritance of property. This has caused direct impact on their economic rates and sustainable livelihood. Pastoral women have therefore failed to build an independent economic status, generally unable to benefit from the principal output from the pastoralist economy, despite contributing numerously to key tasks in pastoralism. In addition to that, pastoralist women have little or no access to financial services; female headed households succumb more quickly to this effect and take longer to recover economically. For those who have lost their entire livestock herd, abandoning the pastoralist economy is often the only option and they are forced to settle on the outskirts of urban areas. I therefore concur with the Secretariat of the Human Rights Council to adopt the drafted recommendations for the 3rd session of the Forum on "Minorities and effective participation in economic life"; specifically: Recommendations 14, multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination against minorities;  Recommendation 15, adoption of special and concrete measures to prevent and to remedy the effects of direct and indirect discrimination;