Tag: child soldiers
The LRA manages to survive, cause havoc
I got the following press release this morning from the International Crisis Group, which points out the continued, bloody existence of the Lord’s Resistance Army. As much as I respect the crisis group, the conclusions in its new report aren’t new at all. The LRA has been a regional menace for years. Think tanks and humanitarian groups [...]
Posted: April 28th, 2010 under Africa, Central African Republic, Foreign policy, U.S. politics, United Nations, civil wars, human rights, humanitarian, international children's issues, slavery.
Tags: child soldiers, Democratic Republic of Congo, Joseph Kony, Lord's Resistance Army, northern Uganda, Uganda, UN peacekeepin mission
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Bumping up the plight of children caught in war
The story below about child soldiers just came in this morning from IRIN. The media and activists who care about this issue need to figure out a way to get the plight of child soldiers into the international consciousness to a degree that promotes real action. This story will probably get picked up in numerous publications [...]
Posted: June 18th, 2009 under Media, NGOs, Outraged, international children's issues.
Tags: child soldiers, children's rights, Radhika Coomaraswamy, UN Special Representative for Children and Armed Confli
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You can’t have it both ways
My head is going to explode from the criticism I’m hearing now about the U.S. helping the Ugandan government and neighbors militarily pursue Joseph Kony and his Lord’s Resistance Army rebel elite.
Look, in 1993, I was one of the earliest journalists in this country to write — and write consistently — about the war in [...]
Posted: February 8th, 2009 under Africa, Foreign policy, International Criminal Court, civil wars, human rights, international children's issues, northern Uganda.
Tags: child soldiers, girls' rights, International Criminal Court, Joseph Kony, Lord's Resistance Army, northern Uganda
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