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Leaders in House of Representatives Circulate Letter to Secretary Clinton Urging Action to Stop LRA Attacks
Represenatives Jim McGovern (D-MA) and Ed Royce (R-CA), longtime champions in the U.S. House of Representatives for human rights in Africa and for an end to Joseph Kony's attacks on children and families, are currently circulating a Congressional letter addressed to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to urge the Secretary to take immediate action to protect civilians from LRA violence and to ... Read full post
Weekly Roundup June 27 - July 3: Plan to help rebuild northern Uganda is relaunched amongst allegations of new rebel group
Record number of Senators write to Secretary Clinton to express concern over LRA violence
An unprecedented number of Senators have signed onto a letter to Secretary Clinton drafted by Senators Sam Brownback (R-KS) and Russ Feingold (D-WI) to express their concern over ongoing violence being committed by the LRA and to inquire as to the US's plans (if any) to help bring an end to the conflict now affecting four countries.
"We believe we have a responsibility to help ... Read full post
How It Ends gets media to pay attention to ignored crisis
At the start of the How It Ends lobby day this week in DC, Michael asked the 2,000 people gathered if any of them had read stories in their newspapers about the 135 people who had been abducted by the LRA the week before. No hands went up. While the media may not want to cover what's happening to innocent families in central Africa, it seems that they will pay attention when thousands of US ... Read full post
Up to the minute information on who has signed onto the legislation
I know a lot of you have been anxiously waiting to find out who has signed on to cosponsor the bill over the past few days.
I just updated our special legislation page (www.resolveuganda.org/legislation) with all of the new cosponsors in both the House and the Senate. The current count is 13 Senate cosponsors and 60 House cosponsors. This is great news and a testament to the kind of ... Read full post
'How it Ends' results are already beginning to show
Just two days after the historic "How it Ends" lobbying efforts in Washington, DC, the results are already beginning to show.
Since Tuesday, when 1600 event participants conducted more than 400 meetings with Senators and Members of Congress, the LRA Disarmament and Northern Uganda Recovery Act has gained dozens of new cosponsors. The bill now has 13 Senate sponsors and 55 ... Read full post
How It Ends Lobby Day picked up on Huffington Post
The Huffington Post published an editorial today authored by Maria Burnett, Uganda researcher for Human Rights Watch, about next week's How It Ends Lobby Day and the need for bold leadership from President Obama to put an end to LRA atrocities.
"US - not Ugandan - leadership is a key component in any multilateral strategy to protect civilians from LRA attacks and to apprehend ... Read full post

