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Hillary Clinton Condemns Antigay Uganda Bill

Advocate. | Advocate | Posted 12.14.2009 | Home

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While addressing a room full of students at Georgetown University, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton took the opportunity to speak out against Uganda...

Conflict Minerals: A Cover For US Allies and Western Mining Interests?

Kambale Musavuli | Posted 12.14.2009 | World


Kambale Musavuli

Advocates of the conflict mineral approach would be far more credible if they had ever called for any kind of pressure whatsoever on mining companies that are directly involved in fueling the conflict.

US Right-Wing Charities Silent On Uganda Bill

Gay City News | Gay City News | Posted 12.14.2009 | Home

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While revelations concerning the role that American conservatives played in spawning Uganda's "anti-homosexuality bill" have focused largely on Rick W...

The Death Penalty as Punishment for Being Gay - Apparently Uganda Doesn't Know it's 2009

Jenny Block | Posted 12.10.2009 | Politics


Jenny Block

In television and film they call it jumping the shark. In real life we generally call it ridiculous. In this case the only word is appalling. On second thought, disgusting fits too.

The U.S. Christian Right and the Attack on Gays in Africa

Rev. Kapya Kaoma | Posted 12.10.2009 | World


Rev. Kapya Kaoma

For two days in early March 2009, Ugandans flocked to the Kampala Triangle Hotel for the Family Life Network's "Seminar on Exposing the Homosexuals' Agenda."

Maddow: More on Uganda, "Conversion Therapies"

Advocate. | Advocate | Posted 12.10.2009 | Home

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Rachel Maddow continued her look into Uganda's "kill the gays" bill on her show last night, starting with yesterday's news that the death penal...

Death Penalty Dropped From Uganda Antigay Bill

Advocate. | Advocate | Posted 12.09.2009 | Home

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Life imprisonment and the death penalty will be dropped from a revised version of Uganda's antigay bill, which is expected to be presented to Parliame...

Richard Cohen: Gay-To-Straight 'Therapist' Spars With Rachel Maddow (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Adam J. Rose | Posted 12.08.2009 | Media


Richard Cohen claims he has helped thousands of people come out of ... homosexuality. His work has drawn the ire of the LGBT community, and has als...

Christians Against Antigay Ugandan Bill

Advocate. | Advocate | Posted 12.08.2009 | Home

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Organized by Faith in Public Life and Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good, Christian leaders from across denominations united on Monday to denou...

Uganda Considering Death Penalty For Gays

AP | KATHARINE HOURELD and GODFREY OLUKYA | Posted 12.08.2009 | World


KAMPALA, Uganda — Proposed legislation would impose the death penalty for some gay Ugandans, and their family and friends could face up to seven...

Pepsi Sponsors Antigay Concert in Uganda?

Advocate. | Advocate | Posted 12.07.2009 | Home

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Did Pepsi sponsor the antigay reggae artist Beenie Man at a concert in Uganda? ...

Killing Uganda's Gays: The Long Reach of American "Reconstructionist" Fascism

Frank Schaeffer | Posted 12.04.2009 | Politics


Frank Schaeffer

The ideological link between the members of the Family on C-Street to the Ugandan fascists wanting to kill gays can be best summed up by looking at several quotes from RJ Rushdoony.

LA Families Send A Message Of Hope

Willow Bay | Posted 12.01.2009 | Los Angeles


Willow Bay

Since the 1990s, I have supported the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation. While we've virtually eliminated new cases of HIV in infants in the United States, globally the need is still great.

Maddow on Uganda and The Family

Advocate. | Advocate | Posted 12.01.2009 | Home

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Journalist Jeff Sharlet joined Rachel Maddow to discuss the connections between American conservatives and the prospective deadly bill against gay peo...

Abysmal UN Report On Congo Leaked To Media

David Sullivan | Posted 11.30.2009 | World


David Sullivan

Africa Confidential reports that China is pushing to delay the Security Council's discussion of the U.N. Group of Experts report on Congo. Let's hope the United States pushes back on these efforts.

Fundamentalists Tied to Uganda's Antigay Law

Advocate. | Advocate | Posted 11.25.2009 | Home

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An antigay conservative group with high-powered political allies has used its influence to support a proposed Ugandan law that would impose the death ...

Gold Addiction Fuels Brutal Congo War (VIDEO)

Posted 11.25.2009 | World


This Sunday "60 Minutes" will present an investigation into how the global gold industry is helping fuel violence and chaos in the Congo. CBS repor...

Uganda President: Gays "Recruiting" in Africa

Advocate. | Advocate | Posted 11.23.2009 | Home

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Uganda President Yoweri Museveni warned youths that 'European homosexuals" were recruiting in his country. ...

Uganda Heads Toward Humanity in Security Council

Sarah Holewinski | Posted 11.18.2009 | World


Sarah Holewinski

Uganda reminded us that the distinction between lawful and unlawful harm shouldn't give warring parties an excuse to walk away from civilian suffering.

The Hometown Shakedown: Your Chance to Help Co-Stop the War in Uganda

Jason Russell | Posted 11.17.2009 | Impact


Jason Russell

We at Invisible Children are trying to end Africa's longest running war. This Wednesday, we're meeting members of Congress who haven't yet co-sponsored the bill. This is your chance to help us.

At Kawolo Hospital

Alexander Vreeland | Posted 11.07.2009 | Impact


Alexander Vreeland

The stories and medical realities in some poor African Hospitals today are not so different from my first experiences in the Pediatric AIDS clinics at New York Hospital and Bellevue Hospital in the late 1980s.

CNN Heroes: Bartender's Nonprofit Turns 'Wine Into Water' For Developing Countries

Huffington Post | Tam Vo | Posted 11.06.2009 | Impact


You can get your cabernet and pinot from North Carolina-based bartender Doc Hendley, but you'll also get a side of water and some sobering news. Wine...

Think It's Over Once You're 60? Check Out The Purpose Prize

Julia Moulden | Posted 11.02.2009 | Living


Julia Moulden

This is the true story of a couple of ordinary Americans who thought, once they turned 60, that life would be uneventful. Instead, they've just won a prestigious award that honours their world-changing work.

New African Union Convention Protects Internally Displaced People

Refugees International | Refugees International | Posted 10.26.2009 | Home


On October 23rd the cause of protecting internally displaced people made a major advance. At the conclusion of a Special Summit in Kampala, Uganda, th...

Somalia: Al Shabab Threatens Uganda And Burundi

Al Jazeera. | Al Jazeera | Posted 10.23.2009 | Home


Somalia's al-Shabab fighters have said they will attack the capitals of Burundi and Uganda in revenge for rocket attacks by peacekeepers from the two ...