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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 October 21, 2010 by admin in Voices from the Ground
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Our team is indebted to the great work that Human Rights Watch has done to investigate LRA atrocities in Congo and the Central African Republic. They recently released a video that highlights ongoing violence in Congo, including brutal attacks committed by the LRA, and provides insight into how they expose human rights violations and work [...] Posted October 20, 2010 by admin in From the Team
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The release of President Obama’s LRA strategy is now just 35 days away, and we are eagerly waiting to see if it will really have what it takes to help bring an end to LRA atrocities in central Africa. News of continued LRA attacks in the Central African Republic (CAR), troubling reports about the LRA’s [...] Posted October 15, 2010 by admin in Resolve Roundup
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Earlier this week, Human Rights Watch Executive Director Kenneth Roth wrote in Foreign Policy that President Obama should do more to fulfill his responsibility as an international leader to help protect people facing mass atrocities anywhere in the world. He goes on to argue that “there is no better case for the humanitarian use of [...] Posted by admin in News & Analysis
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Last month, religious leaders from Uganda, DR Congo, the Central African Republic (CAR), and Sudan met for a conference in Yambio, South Sudan, to discuss the impact of the LRA on the region. They issued a statement outlining recommendations for dealing with the LRA threat. Many of their recommendations mirror those we discussed in our [...] Posted October 14, 2010 by admin in Voices from the Ground
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This week, we’ve been charging ahead with the From Promise to Peace campaign, aimed at making sure President Obama follows through on his recent promises with an LRA strategy that can actually achieve peace. Activists around the country have already had dozens of local lobby meetings, and Members of Congress are responding with pledges to read [...] Posted October 8, 2010 by admin in Resolve Roundup
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South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a longtime voice for peace and reconciliation in Africa and around our world, retired from public life today. I once had the privilege of meeting Archbishop Tutu after hearing him speak on my college campus. Few interactions, especially so brief, have ever left such an impression. More than recounting the [...] Posted by admin in From the Team
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This week, we launched an exciting new campaign, From Promise to Peace, focused on making sure that President Obama’s LRA Strategy, due in just 50 days, includes the major investment of new resources and leadership needed to achieve peace. Over 1000 people have already pledged to read and respond to Obama’s LRA strategy when it [...] Posted October 2, 2010 by admin in Resolve Roundup
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Since President Obama signed the LRA Disarmament and Northern Uganda Recovery Act into law on May 24, his Africa team has been hard at work developing a strategy to guide the U.S. in helping to put a stop to LRA atrocities. With just 52 days remaining until the strategy is due, we’re waiting for its [...] Posted September 29, 2010 by admin in From the Team | News & Analysis
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Last year, the efforts of tens of thousands of people and hundreds of Members of Congress secured the passage of a bill that requires President Obama and his team to develop a comprehensive strategy to help see an end to LRA atrocities. But as the President’s team develops their plan, a major question remains unanswered: [...] Posted September 28, 2010 by admin in Advocates in Action | From Promise to Peace
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We’ve changed our name: Resolve Uganda is now Resolve, and we have a new website to boot. As a weekly roundup reader, you know that there has been a geographic shift in the front lines of the LRA war from northern Uganda to remote areas of northeastern DR Congo, southeast Central African Republic, and South [...] Posted September 27, 2010 by admin in Resolve Roundup
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On Monday, several of us here at Resolve attended a speech by South Sudanese President Salva Kiir, who is currently in the U.S. to discuss the upcoming South Sudanese referendum on independence and to attend meetings at this week’s U.N. General Assembly. The referendum, which is slated to take place in January as a final [...] Posted September 23, 2010 by admin in News & Analysis