It caused its creator to suffer a severe (naked) public breakdown, received over 100 million views in just under a week, and temporarily shone the world’s spotlight on an otherwise little known African warlord. With Joseph Kony still at large, what did Kony-2012 actually achieve? Just days after the release of last year’s most successful [...]
Tag Archives: Uganda
Press Review: Labor unions at Foxconn & Forcing Uganda’s gay population into exile
Contract manufacturer Foxconn will hold labor union elections for its Chinese factory employees. [CNN] Uganda’s gay population will be forced into exile if lawmakers pass a new law that would make homosexuality a capital offense. [The Guardian] The Burmese government and Kachin rebels start peace talks in China. [The Guardian] Questions arise about the ability [...]
Signs of the NY Times: Not too late for Global Cooling? The Taliban of Timbuktu. Gold and the Environment.
Op-Ed contributor Thomas E. Lovejoy – who in 1980 introduced the scientific community to the term “biological diversity” – is another widely respected scholar screaming for more attention to be paid to global warming. But unlike authors of many recent articles on the subject, he still has hope. Although he claims that the pre-determined allowable [...]
Kony remains at large
Invisible Children released their 11th film, KONY 2012, on March 5th and would never have known that it would lead to the most important year in the non-profit organisation’s eight-year history. 2012 was significant, but Joseph Kony remains at large.
Kauft Ziegen!
Ein Interview mit der Plan International-Chefin Maike Röttger über Transparenz, Bildung und Ziegen für Mali. Herzlichen Glückwunsch zum ersten Platz beim diesjährigen Transparenzpreis im Auftrag von PricewaterhouseCoopers. Was machen Sie besser als andere Organisationen? Vielen Dank! Der Preis ist für uns Ansporn und Verpflichtung zugleich, das Niveau nicht nur zu halten, sondern fortwährend zu verbessern. [...]
Hours to stop Uganda’s horrific anti-gay law
The Ugandan Parliament is set to pass a brutal law that may carry the death penalty for homosexuality. If they do, thousands of Ugandans could face execution or life imprisonment – just for being gay. We’ve helped stop this bill before, and we can do it again. After a massive global outcry last year, Ugandan President Museveni [...]
KONY 2012: campaign’s achievements and yet not to end
As our author Jack Bicker had reported in September 2012, the Kony 2012 campaign, after six months of great public interest and supported by many US-celebrities, had been constantly forfeiting its huge attention within the public memory. Joseph Kony was still free and children were still abused as soldiers of his Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA). [...]
Organic farming in East Africa
Organic farming has become much more important in East Africa in recent years. Environmentally friendly agricultural methods are a prerequisite for sustainable rural development. In order that organic farming represents a viable option for small farmers, it must also be economical for them. During the conversion from conventional to organic agriculture they are thus dependent [...]
Press Review: Guinea creates human rights post & Seed diversity program boosts food security
The Gaia Foundation’s seed diversity program aims to secure a more resilient and dependable food supply. [The Guardian] New technology can measure greenhouse gas emissions at street level, a breakthrough that could help pinpoint locations that produce the most pollution. [BBC] Corruption in India has caused a 20-year delay in the implementation of a labor [...]
Four Women Raped Every Five Minutes – Who Remembers Kony 2012?
Abducted young girls are initiated into a life in which their worth is defined by their sexual subservience to men. The young girls abducted by Joseph Kony are the mothers of Africa’s future, and the systematic crimes committed by his forces jeopardise their sexual and psychological health, their fertility, education, ability to enter into normal [...]
Signs of the NY Times: The dark side of the U.S. oil and natural gas boom, Corruption in Angola & The African elephant’s last stand.
Beware the U.S. oil and natural gas boom. Angolan corruption funded by U.S. aid. Elephant poaching in Africa reaches new heights.
Press Review: Ending high child mortality rates & Fighting for women’s rights in Afghanistan
Women’s advocacy groups in Afghanistan work to enforce laws that are often ignored by the justice system itself. [NPR] Transparency watchdogs: closed-door arbitration like this week’s private process between the Ugandan government and British Heritage Oil deprives citizens of their right to know how their country’s oil wealth is managed. [Washington Post] An immediate increase [...]
