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POPSProgressive Media I just watched "Very Young Girls" last night. I cried. There are too few people who know anything about what poverty is truly like in the US. Although this documentary is about prostitution in NYS, it is also really about being poor and being a minority girl.
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POPSMediastorm Each photograph represents a different project and a different story...
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POPSCatholic charity CARITAS supplied LRA rebels Why in the world would CARITAS agree to supply the thugs of the Lord's Resistance Army with food and supplies? How much are they getting paid by the "international sponsors" for fulfilling this contract? Is it worthwhile to give murderous thugs an incentive?
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POPSTackling sexual terrorism in Congo You know, we should have some sort of world organization, one that could draw on sements of each member countrys military to prevent or end such horrible atrocities as this, you know something akin to the UN but with balls enough to actually do something.
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POPSwoman International woman's day 2009. What do we do when the scope of violence against women is so unimaginable, so extreme and enormous, that it is beyond our vision? Beyond our realm of thinking? How is it possible that we live in a world where one doctor has treated 25,000 victims of rape for mutilation and suffering? For those of us who are safe from the world of the Congo, who are unable to go there, to physically help the thousands of women who are victims of rape as a tactic of war, we read about it. We learn about it. We bear witness to it. So that we can help in other ways. So that we can stop it from ever happening in other places, in future wars. To make rape a tactic of war IS NOT ACCEPTABLE. ANYWHERE.
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POPSUgandanInsomniac: US Helps Failed Mission Just remember the very real African people who are being decimated throughout all of this. And remember the babies and children with the LRA. Surely the number of babies killed by bombs will never be counted.
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POPSUS helped Ugandan assault on LRA rebels US apparently aided the recent Operation Lightning Thunder as troops from Uganda, the DR of Congo and Sudanese rebels SPLA attacked Ugandan rebels Lords Resistance Army in the DR of Congo.
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POPSDoes talking peace End War? Dissident CDNP leader Bosco Ntaganda, wanted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes, is pursuing separate peace negotiations as talks about the eastern DR Congo crisis resume. More than 3,000 extra UN peacekeepers are needed in the eastern DR Congo to protect civilians there. Will this help the crisis? What can be done to stabilise eastern DR Congo? Are you satisfied with the performance of the UN peacekeepers? Are you in DR Congo or Rwanda?
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POPSSudan accuses LRA of more killings Forces led by Uganda and including Congolese and south Sudanese troops began bombing LRA bases in Congo's Garamba National Park on Dec. 14 after Kony again failed to sign a final peace agreement with the Ugandan government.
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POPSKenya Calls on Congo Peacekeepers to Use Force “The current situation in Eastern DRC calls on all of us to work together to bring a lasting political solution to the conflict,” he said. “A united, peaceful and vigorous Congo is not only good for the development and future of Africa but also for international peace and security.”
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POPSUN: Nearly 1 Billion Live with Hunger The lion's share of the problem is food prices. While prices have dropped recently, the report tells us "they still remain high compared to previous years." "FAO’s Food Price Index is still nearly 30 per cent higher as of October 2008 than it was two years before," according to the UN. "Meanwhile, the prices of seeds, fertilizers and other inputs have more than doubled since 2006, leaving poor farmers unable to produce food." Over two-thirds of the world's hungry live in just seven nations: India, China, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Bangladesh, Indonesia, Pakistan, and Ethiopia.
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POPSMashup on DR Congo This is a an interesting site that allows information to be published on a map, and people on the ground to submit updates by text. The site is called ushahidi.com
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POPSUN Aircraft attack rebels in DR of Congo Hostilities have continued in eastern DRC despite stabilization in much of the rest of the vast country, which was torn by years of civil war. On Monday, the DRC called for UN peacekeepers to be given a clear mandate and the resources necessary to impose peace by force if necessary. “Confronted by the drama occurring in the east of the Congo, MONUC must be authorized to act, and can act in a convincing manner,” Permanent Representative Ileka Atoki told the General Assembly’s annual General Debate.
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