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...once visited D.C. and talked to a congressman who said he hadn’t heard anything about Uganda—but everyone has heard of Darfur,” she said, mentioning that the western region of Sudan is rich in oil deposits...
...genocide in Darfur is half the situation in northern Uganda and one wonders why the world does not know about it,” said a doctor who has worked in Uganda during the first of a new series of human rights events. Julian J. Atim, a native of northern Uganda who is a student at the School of Public Health, spoke last night at a screening of “Uganda Rising,” a documentary about the humanitarian crisis in northern Uganda. The screening kicked off the first “Human Rights 101” class...
...says. Wright himself scrawled lines of poetry on his white T-shirt. Popular T-shirt messages can range from the poetic to the political. These days, students can pick up a cause like they pick up laundry, with T-shirts meant to support Darfur (“Save Darfur”), Obama (“BaRock My World”), and awareness about AIDS (the newly-popular “HIV-Positive” tees). But sometimes, casual campaigning can underplay the seriousness of an issue. “I get mad when I see people wearing shirts...
...this?” Maya asked, holding up a flimsy piece of foam board. “It’s double-sided. This side says, End the genocide in Darfur...
...there may still be those who wonder how an environmentalist could be, as the Peace Prize's description goes, the person who has "done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations." They shouldn't. Climate change is already a key instigator of conflict in areas like Darfur, where drought likely worsened by global warming helped trigger a civil war that has claimed over 200,000 lives. (Nor are Gore and the IPCC the first greens to win the Peace Prize; that would be the Kenyan Wangari Maathai, a conservationist and political activist...