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Check out this video from our friends at Human Rights Watch. Anneke van Woudenberg and Ida Sawyer have conducted five research missions in recent months to remote villages in northern Democratic Republic of Congo and the Central African Republic that have been hard hit by LRA violence. While in the region, they listen to the [...] Posted November 12, 2010 by admin in Voices from the Ground
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Put on your thinking caps and get our your crayons. It’s time to get creative.
(To our fellow DC wonks, we found the definition of creative here.) We’ve only got a few more days before President Obama releases his strategy to help end LRA violence in central Africa. We want to see 10,000 people pledge [...] Posted November 11, 2010 by admin in Advocates in Action
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Earlier this week, we posted statements from some of the thousands of constituents who have made a personal pledge to read the President’s strategy on the LRA when it is released in just two week’s time, as part of our From Promise to Peace campaign. We continue to be inspired by your dedication and resolve [...] Posted November 5, 2010 by admin in Advocates in Action
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This week the Senate bids farewell to two congressional champions on LRA issues, Senators Russ Feingold (D-WI) and Sam Brownback (R-KS). Feingold and Brownback, the original cosponsors of the LRA Disarmament and Northern Uganda Recovery Act, have both worked tirelessly for years to keep ending LRA violence and helping affected communities on the agenda of [...] Posted by admin in Resolve Roundup
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In just a couple of weeks, President Obama will be releasing the first ever U.S. strategy to help end LRA violence once and for all. Thousands of Americans across the country have made a personal pledge to read and respond to the President’s strategy when it is released. In doing so, these individuals have voiced [...] Posted November 3, 2010 by admin in Advocates in Action
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It’s a busy time in DC! In just 22 days President Obama will release his strategy on the LRA, and we’re delighted that two more Members of Congress—Representative John Boozman from Arkansas and Paul Tonko from New York—have shown their resolve to end LRA violence by committing to read and respond to the President’s strategy [...] Posted October 29, 2010 by admin in Resolve Roundup
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If you’re not yet familiar with Resolve’s Congressional Scorecards, this post might just change your life. OK, that might be a bit melodramatic, but we really do love this resource and we think you will, too. And with US Congressional elections just a week away, now is the perfect time to re-introduce you to this [...] Posted October 26, 2010 by admin in From Congress | From the Team | News & Analysis
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We just hit the 30 day mark on the countdown to President Obama’s LRA strategy release. That means that there’s less than a month to make as much noise as possible to let the President know that we are watching, and that we will hold him accountable to providing the leadership and commitment needed to [...] Posted October 22, 2010 by admin in Resolve Roundup
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We’ve posted several stories from Sister Giovanna Calabria, a Comboni nun who has worked for decades with LRA-affected populations in South Sudan, and northern Uganda. She wrote to us again recently to share the story of a young boy she met in Nzara, South Sudan, where she works, and we wanted to share the story [...] Posted by admin in Voices from the Ground
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30 days. 30 days before President Obama is required to release the first ever U.S. strategy to help permanently end LRA violence. That means we have 30 days to convey what’s really at stake as the Obama Administration readies its response to Congress and the people of central Africa. Here’s the deal: the more eyes [...] Posted by admin in Advocates in Action
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Cliffnotes version: Last week leaders from across Africa met to discuss how the continent can better cooperate to address the problem of LRA violence in central Africa. The leaders left the summit issuing bold proclamations about new joint initiatives to defeat the LRA and assist affected communities. But will these promises translate into effective action on [...] Posted October 21, 2010 by admin in News & Analysis
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Earlier this week, I had the privilege of meeting with with two Ugandan civil society leaders, Richard Mugisha, from the Open Society Initiative for Eastern Africa, and Patrick Tumwine, from Human Rights Network—Uganda. Mugisha and Tumwine are in DC to meet with US officials and NGO leaders to discuss troubling recent political trends that cast [...] Posted by admin in Voices from the Ground