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Uganda Unveils Online Gorilla Tracking

nytimes.com | Pete Browne | Posted 11.14.2009 | Green

Read More: friendagorilla.org, Animal Rights, Extinction, Animal-Protection, Africa, Gorillas, Online Video, Uganda, Uganda Wildlife Authority, Wildlife, Green News

"The project aims to bring attention to the plight of gorillas," said Lillian Nsubuga, a spokeswoman for the Uganda Wildlife Authority, "and any money...

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Uganda: Deadly Riots Erupt In Capital For 2nd Day

AP | GODFREY OLUKYA | Posted 11.11.2009 | World

Read More: Uganda Rebels, Unrest Uganda, Uganda Fighing, Africa, Riots in Uganda, Uganda Riots, Riots in Africa, Congo Uganda, Uganda, Uganda Africa, Kampala, World News

KAMPALA, Uganda — Rioters angry over political and land issues clashed with government forces for a second day Friday, and at least six people w...

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From Idi Amin to Al-Bashir: A Critical Moment for International Criminal Justice

Rahim Kanani | Posted 11.08.2009 | World

Read More: Darfur, Idi Amin Uganda, Sudan, Africa, Criminal Court of Justice, Icc, Al-Bashir's Sudan, Uganda, Idi Amin, International Criminal Court, World News
Rahim Kanani

With a number of outstanding arrest warrants and many more countries on the cusp of becoming active ICC investigations, the system of international criminal justice is at a crossroads.

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Empowering Butikiro, Uganda To Secure Sustainability

GroundReport.com | GroundReport.com | Posted 09.14.2009 | Home

Read More: Empowering Butikiro, Uganda, Home News

SLINT-Uganda's mission is to empower people to secure sustainable incomes, food security and  improved quality of life while at the same time mai...

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Hillary Clinton in Congo: Tempers, Human Rights, and Media Cliché

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 09.11.2009 | World

Read More: Women, Uganda, Mugunga I, Georgianne Nienaber, New York Times, Kabila, Congo Rape, Democratic Republic of Congo, War, Chilren, Radio Okapi, Refugees, Mugunga II, World News
Georgianne Nienaber

Media reports of Hillary Clinton's visit to Congo have so far focused on her testy remark to a Congolese student. But what about human rights and continuing corruption in the Kabila government?

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Lord's Resistance Army Attacks Villages, Kidnaps Children On Sudan-Congo Border (VIDEO)

Doctors Without Borders | Posted 09.10.2009 | World

Read More: Video, Human Rights, Sudan, Lra, Ugandan Rebels, Southern Sudan, Uganda, Congo, Lord's Resistance Army, Refugees, World News

By Doctors Without Borders With photography and video by photojournalist Brendan Bannon, Doctors Without Borders brings you the underreported story o...

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Helping Women: Eliminating Obstetric Fistula in Developing World

Jim Luce | Posted 08.28.2009 | World

Read More: George Bush, Facebook, Mexican National Institute of Health, Ronald Reagan, Myspace, “Global Gag Rule”, Women’s Health, Pregnancy, Thought Leaders, Vaginal Fistula, Global Citizens, South Africa, Clinton Global Initiative, Roe v. Wade, Argentina, World Health Organization, Abortion, Uganda, Bill Clinton, Developing World, M.D., Roman Catholic Church, EngenderHealth., Mexico, Twitter, AIDS Prevention, Barack Obama, Ana Langer, Women, Population Control, Reproductive Health, Smith Barney, India, Obstetric Fistula, Orphans International Worldwide, Frances D. Alleman-Luce, Usaid, Pep Far, Engenderhealth, World News
Jim Luce

EngenderHealth focuses on far more than fistula repair and prevention. They are dedicated to improving the overall health and well-being of people in the countries where they work.

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All Children Are Our Children

Lissa Coffey | Posted 08.25.2009 | Living

Read More: Uganda, Foster Care, Volunteering, Charity, Children, India, Giving, Usa, Congo, Adoption, Living News
Lissa Coffey

More and more we are learning that we live in a global community. Because of the internet and ease of travel, it's easier for us to reach out and help children not only in our hometowns, but around the world.

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Uganda To Outlaw Female Circumcision

Yahoo! News | Fri Jul 3, 7:45 Am ET | Posted 08.23.2009 | Living

Read More: Female Circumcision, Outlaw Female Circumcision, Uganda, Health, Africa, Genital Mutilation, Genital Cutting, Living News

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Uganda Child Sacrifices To Become A Capital Offense

Huffington Post | Posted 08.17.2009 | World

Read More: Uganda, Africa Witches, Africa, Uganda Child Sacrifice, Foreign Affairs, Witchcraft, Africa Witch Hunt, Africa Witchcraft, Africa Child Sacrifice, Advocacy, World News

As ritualistic child sacrifices continue to rise in Uganda, lawmakers in the parliament are just now drafting a bill to make the act a capital offense...

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UN Envoy's Term Ends, but Rebels Go On and On

Maria Burnett | Posted 08.14.2009 | World

Read More: U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, Democratic Republic of Congo, United Nations Security Council, Obama, Kofi Annan, Mozambique, Joseph Kony, War Crimes, Lord's Resistance Army, Un Peacekeeping Congo, Sudan, Human Rights Watch, Central-African-Republic, Obama Africa, Obama Africa Foreign Policy, Lra, Icc, Joaquim Chissano, Uganda, International Criminal Court, Juba, World News
Maria Burnett

Several members of congress support a bill that would oblige the White House to develop a detailed strategy to protect civilians from the brutal Lord's Resistance Army in east and central Africa.

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Uganda: Bashir Will Be Arrested If He Comes Here

AP | GODFREY OLUKYA | Posted 08.13.2009 | World

Read More: Sudan, Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, Uganda, Darfur Sudan, Sudan Genocide, Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir, Genocide in Sudan, Omar Al-Bashir, Omar Al Bashir, Bashir Arrest Warrant, Al Bashir Arrest Warrant, Icc, International Criminal Court, Uganda Bashir, World News

KAMPALA, Uganda — Uganda said Monday it would arrest Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir if he enters the country, an unusual stance after a summi...

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We Need a Strategy, Not a Silver Bullet, to Stop the LRA

Sen. Russ Feingold | Posted 08.07.2009 | World

Read More: Resolve-Uganda, Uganda, Senator Russ Feingold, Invisible Children, Joseph Kony, Jim McGovern, Sam Brownback, Enough Project, World News
Sen. Russ Feingold

The Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda has forcibly abducted tens of thousands of children to fill their ranks as soldiers and sex slaves. Until recently, the international community has paid little attention.

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Could This Be Africa's Next Cash Crop?

Lola Olley | Posted 07.30.2009 | World

Read More: Uganda, Developing World, Africa, Agriculture, Agribusiness, Bill-and-Melinda-Gates-Foundation, Burundi, Kenya, Congo, Rwanda, World News
Lola Olley

Cassava can be made into everything from flour to tapioca and could create a positive domino effect in Africa with economic empowerment leading to a reduced need for foreign food aid.

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Italy Hosts Child Soldiers Symposium

Jim Luce | Posted 07.28.2009 | World

Read More: U.N. Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), Tamil Tigers, Giulio Terzi, Sri Lanka, Paris Principles, Iraq, Italian Government, Sri Lanka Human Rights Commission, Rome Symposium on Children and Armed Conflict, U.N. Resolution 1612, Ban Ki-Moon, Warlords, U.N. International School, Sexual Violence, Early Mortality, Francis Deng, Uganda, Suicide Bombing, N.Y.U. School of Law, Poverty, Democratic Republic of Congo, Rome, Unicef, U.N. Security Council”, Child Soldiers, International Save the Children Alliance, Kofi Annan, Save the Children Italy, Radhika Coomaraswamy, u.n. Human Rights Council, Education, Prevention of Genocide, Columbia University, Illiteracy, U.N. General Assembly, Harvard University, Child Rape, Health, Colombo, Innocenti Research Centre, Yale University, United Nations’ Millennium Declaration, Afghanistan, Human Rights, Special Representative of the Secretary General, Special Court for Sierra Leone, U.N. Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women, Convention on the Rights of the Child, Explaining the Tamil Tigers, Children and Young People Affected by Armed Conflict, World News
Jim Luce

With the changing nature of armed conflict, the impact of war on children and young people has become more brutal than ever.

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Africa's Longest War Still Taking Lives

Maria Burnett | Posted 07.20.2009 | World

Read More: Democratic Republic of Congo, Human Rights Watch, Central-African-Republic, Lords-Resistance-Army, Lra, Resolve Uganda, Uganda, International Criminal Court, World News
Maria Burnett

In Congo last December, Human Rights Watch documented how small groups of rebels rounded up civilians in several villages and hacked to death entire families as they gathered for their Christmas meal.

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A Near-Zero-Cost Approach to Do-Gooding: My 375th Kiva Loan

Bob Harris | Posted 07.16.2009 | Business

Read More: Microloans, Uganda, Philippines, Yunus, Grameen, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Maria Shriver, Mozambique, Third World, Muhammad Yunus, Costa Rica, Kiva.org, Peru, Microfinance, Grameen Bank, Kiva, Developing World, Hillary Clinton, Development, Nicaragua, Business News
Bob Harris

Metaphorically, micro lending is not giving someone a fish, and it's not teaching someone to fish; it's helping a fisherman patch a hole in his rowboat so he can get on with life.

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Lifestyle Melts Away With Uganda Peak Snow Cap

Yahoo! News | Ben Simon | Posted 07.16.2009 | Green

Read More: Melting Ice Caps, Uganda, Africa, Global Warming, Climate Change, Green News

"Man-made global warming is here. We are smelling it and we are touching it." Uganda's National Environmental Management Authority (NEMA) believes ...

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World Day Against Child Labor Highlights The Need To Do More For Africa's Children (SLIDESHOW)

International Rescue Committee | Posted 07.13.2009 | World

Read More: Education, Africa, Exploitation, Children, Work, Child Labor, Labor, Child Exploitation, Uganda, Schools, Slideshow, World News
International Rescue Committee

African nations are witnessing a different kind of labor crisis -- the use of young children and teenagers as cheap workers in exploitative jobs and industries.

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Ethiopian-American Lawyer on Conflicts Along the Nile

Jim Luce | Posted 06.25.2009 | World

Read More: Egypt, Uganda, Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz, Lawyer, Thought Leaders, Global Citizens, Ethiopia, Fasil Amdetsion, Lake Victoria, Harvard University, Jim Luce, Yale University, Water Rights, Sudan, Tanzania, Mediterranean, River Nile, Ethiopian-American, World News
Jim Luce

Fasil Amdetsion, an attorney from Ethiopia, thinks the Nile basin will be the most likely site of a future "water war" because the Nile embodies "all the challenges that transnational management of fresh water could possibly present."

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Rwanda: Returning Refugees Need More Than Comforting Words

Refugees International | Refugees International | Posted 06.18.2009 | Home

Read More: Rwanda, Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, Home News

During the 1994 mass migration of Rwandan refugees into the neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo, what many people didn't realize was that there w...

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My journey to every country on the planet

CNN / Anderson Cooper 360° | CNN / Anderson Cooper 360° | Posted 06.14.2009 | Home

Read More: Portland-Oregon, Seattle-Washington, Zimbabwe, Macau, Yemen, Jordan, Uganda, Brunei, Andorra, Home News

A city in Yemen, one of the countries Guillebeau plans on visiting this year. Chris Guillebeau AC360° Contributor On a six-hou...

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Mothers Who Make A Difference

Kari Henley | Posted 06.10.2009 | Living

Read More: Games for Change, Martha Hoffman, Uganda, Video Games, Susan Seggerman, Mothers Day, Featured Contributor, The Giving Life, Living News
Kari Henley

Celebrating Mothers. Clearly one day is not nearly enough to do the job justice. I believe the simple act of mothering a child is Herculean enough for...

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Child Soldiers on Film: "Kassim the Dream" (I)

Karin Badt | Posted 06.05.2009 | World

Read More: Uganda, Mamdani, Museveni, Child Soldiers, Kassim the Dream, Trauma and Theater, Lords-Resistance-Army, Joseph Kony, Save the Children, Kampala, Gulu, World News
Karin Badt

The situation of child soldiers remains the same: and the finger points back -- many argue -- at Museveni himself.

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Child Soldier Recruitment Prevention A Hopeless Cause For UN

Inter Press Service | Thalif Deen | Posted 05.30.2009 | World

Read More: Afghanistan, Child Soldiers, Foreign Affairs, Burma, United Nations, Middle East, Taliban, Congo, Philippines, Child Soldier, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Africa, Byanmar, Taliban Child Soldier, Somalia, Uganda, Asia, Iraq, Child Soldier Recruitment, Advocacy, World News

UNITED NATIONS, Apr 29 (IPS) - The United Nations remains virtually helpless as an increasing number of armed groups - described as "non-state actor...

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