Rape in Ugandan Camps
A judge in northern Uganda has ordered the army to pay two girls who say they were raped by soldiers in an internally displaced persons' camp. The decision spotlights rights workers' charges of rampant rapes in these camps:
"...The girls said the two soldiers threatened to shoot them and then took turns raping them as their mother looked helplessly on.
The eldest sister, who was 18 at the time, later tested negative for the HIV virus. But her sister tested positive. She was 13."
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Thursday, May 18, 2006
Meditation On Darkness
A Poem For The Children Of Northern Uganda
Bring me back those nights, and the moon too,
And let me whirl and dance and be a child again;
Return me to the savannah, to the heart of my Africa
Where I can be a child again on a moonlit summer night....
But now I hear the moon comes no more
And darkness shrouds the summer night....
Children, too young to walk
Are stalked by death and fear worse than death...
Where we used to run and walk and dance--
There, they tell us, death now struts,
Licking its lips and mowing down the future
...Read the complete poem
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Wednesday, May 17, 2006
uNight takes on Hitchens on HuffPo - READ THE POST
Bring me back those nights, and the moon too,
And let me whirl and dance and be a child again;
Return me to the savannah, to the heart of my Africa
Where I can be a child again on a moonlit summer night....
But now I hear the moon comes no more
And darkness shrouds the summer night....
Children, too young to walk
Are stalked by death and fear worse than death...
Where we used to run and walk and dance--
There, they tell us, death now struts,
Licking its lips and mowing down the future
...Read the complete poem
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Wednesday, May 17, 2006
uNight takes on Hitchens on HuffPo - READ THE POST
uNight’s first blog post is now up on the Huffington Post, check it out.
Genocide in Uganda: The African Nightmare Christopher Hitchens Missed
In the January 2006 edition of Vanity Fair, in a piece titled "Childhood's End," Christopher Hitchens proclaims to expose the cynical politics behind one of Africa's greatest nightmares: the twenty-year war in northern Uganda. For those of us dedicated to bringing the humanitarian catastrophe in northern Uganda to the attention of the international community, any exposure of the conflict by a high-profile journalist such as Hitchens is welcome. But Hitchens's account of the two-decade-long war is dangerously misleading ...Read on and contribute to the debate. (0) comments
uNight Blogs on the acclaimed Huffington Post - JOIN THE DEBATE
uNight is delighted to announce its special Huffington Post blog on northern Uganda.
Other contributors to the Huffington Post range from high-profile politicians to
comedians, to public intellectuals. Huffington Post bloggers include:
Sen. John Kerry, Al Franken, and Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, among
others. This is a great opportunity for uNight and all those who want to
actively engage the American public and policy makers about the
humanitarian catastrophe in northern Uganda. I hope you and your
circle of concerned citizens help uNight take advantage of the
interactive and lively debate that the blogosphere enables.
SPREAD THE WORD. Read and contribute by posting your own comments to our HuffPo blog.
Thanks for your support and commitment to ending the suffering in northern Uganda. (0) comments
Sunday, May 14, 2006
Night for uNight
Genocide in Uganda: The African Nightmare Christopher Hitchens Missed
In the January 2006 edition of Vanity Fair, in a piece titled "Childhood's End," Christopher Hitchens proclaims to expose the cynical politics behind one of Africa's greatest nightmares: the twenty-year war in northern Uganda. For those of us dedicated to bringing the humanitarian catastrophe in northern Uganda to the attention of the international community, any exposure of the conflict by a high-profile journalist such as Hitchens is welcome. But Hitchens's account of the two-decade-long war is dangerously misleading ...Read on and contribute to the debate. (0) comments
uNight Blogs on the acclaimed Huffington Post - JOIN THE DEBATE
Other contributors to the Huffington Post range from high-profile politicians to
comedians, to public intellectuals. Huffington Post bloggers include:
Sen. John Kerry, Al Franken, and Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, among
others. This is a great opportunity for uNight and all those who want to
actively engage the American public and policy makers about the
humanitarian catastrophe in northern Uganda. I hope you and your
circle of concerned citizens help uNight take advantage of the
interactive and lively debate that the blogosphere enables.
SPREAD THE WORD. Read and contribute by posting your own comments to our HuffPo blog.
Thanks for your support and commitment to ending the suffering in northern Uganda. (0) comments
Sunday, May 14, 2006
Night for uNight
Join the uNight team welcome in the spring with a mojito on a New York garden patio. On Wednesday, May 31st come to a uNight happy hour.
SAVE THE DATE
Cooper 35 - Asian Pub
Cooper Square, (5th Street and 3rd Ave)
Wednesday, May 31st, 6 PM onwards
Nibble on spicy edamame and try Cooper 35's specialty cocktails, the Lycheetini or the Funny Honey. (0) comments
Donated boxes of clothing make their way to northern Uganda
SAVE THE DATE
Cooper 35 - Asian Pub
Cooper Square, (5th Street and 3rd Ave)
Wednesday, May 31st, 6 PM onwards
Nibble on spicy edamame and try Cooper 35's specialty cocktails, the Lycheetini or the Funny Honey. (0) comments
Donated boxes of clothing make their way to northern Uganda
Through a collaboration between the University of Connecticut, the Full Belly Project, the Rotary Club and uNight, half a dozen boxes of donated clothing and shoes make their way by container to northern Uganda.
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