How Does Your State Rate on Human Trafficking?
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What's On Your Holiday Wish List?
December 11, 2009
It’s that time of year to pull out your holiday wish list and add to it the myriad things you’ve been dreaming of. I’m about to move into a new place with an underwhelming…
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NY Times Lens Blog – Showcase: Shining a light
December 10, 2009
Photographer Steven Alvarez is famous for shining light on dark places. And for the last several years, he has been taking pictures within this one: the war-torn area surrounding the border of…
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Displaced And Ignored: Sudanese Seeking Shelter From The LRA
December 10, 2009
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YAMBIO, “Southern Sudan” —As my colleague and I drove through the outskirts of Yambio, the capital of Western Equatoria state, we passed a large construction site where a…
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Hold The Sudanese Government Accountable For Peace, Now
December 10, 2009
_This is a guest post by Representative Christopher H. Smith, of New Jersey’s 4th District. He is a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and the Ranking Member on the Subcommittee on…
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More Protests in Sudan
December 10, 2009
Earlier today, an estimated group of 50,000 Sudanese hit the streets in opposition to Omar al-Bashir, and the National Congress Party. Bashir, who is an indicted war criminal governing on the run…
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Obama spotlights genocide in Nobel Peace Prize speech
December 10, 2009
Early this morning, President Obama accepted the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway. In “his acceptance…
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Releasing Ushahidi 1.0: “Mogadishu”
December 10, 2009
Every iteration of the Ushahidi engine gets better, and it seems with every big release target we’re even more excited with what this platform can do. Today, we’re excited to announce…
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"Orchestrating Sudan's Next Fateful Step": Fouad Hikmat and Donald Steinberg in The Boston Globe
December 09, 2009
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Day 16 of 16 Days of Activism: Spotlighting Las Mujeres Hablan
December 09, 2009
!http://www.nobelwomensinitiative.org/images/stories/16_Days_of_Action/16days_banner.jpg(16days_banner)!*Meet Las Mujeres Hablan (The Women Speaking). *Las Mujeres Hablan (The Women Speaking)…
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On the Road in Southern Sudan, Reminders of War
December 09, 2009
Driving southwest from “Juba” , the capital of “southern Sudan” , to the town of Yei, near the Congolese border, it’s hard to miss the clear signs—literal and otherwise—of…
