Tag: humanitarian affairs
Remembering genocide
Tuesday is the annual commemoration among Jews of those who died in the Holocaust. Although too much looking backward can numb the senses, it is worth remembering what Hitler and the Nazis did to 12 million people whose only crime was to be Jewish, or a gypsy, or disabled or gay. The Nazis erected an [...]
Posted: April 19th, 2009 under Africa, Cambodia, Foreign policy, Myanmar, Sudan, U.S. politics, Uncategorized, human rights, humanitarian.
Tags: Genocide, humanitarian affairs, Obama administration, U.S. politics
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Resolve Uganda on children caught in Kony search
This just in from the very good folks at Resolve Uganda. The group is urging that, as regional militaries hunt for LRA leader Joseph Kony, they target only Lord’s Resistance Army leaders and not the children. As richly as Kony deserves to be caught, the pragmatic problem always has been that in using force to capture him, [...]
Posted: December 16th, 2008 under Africa, civil wars, human rights, humanitarian, international children's issues, northern Uganda.
Tags: children's rights, Democratic Republic of Congo, human rights, humanitarian affairs, international humanitarin policy, Joaquim Chissano, Joseph Kony, northern Uganda, Resolve Uganda, Sudan, the Lord's Resistance Army, United Nations Security Council
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