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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

Ongoing attacks by Kony's LRA fighters remain a tragic reality for communities in the DR Congo and South Sudan, but this week our attention is focused on the situation within northern Uganda.  For three years communities there have been free from LRA attacks, allowing thousands of displaced families to return to their homes. Though so far they've received inadequate support to help them rebuild ...  Read full post

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

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

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

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

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

(Washington, D.C. 19 June 2009) --- Nearly two thousand citizens from across the country will converge on the U.S. Capitol June 23rd to urge their elected officials to pass landmark legislation focused on ending violence against civilians carried out by Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebel forces in central Africa. The lobby efforts are part of a two-day event aimed at increasing ...  Read full post

This coming Tuesday, June 23rd, Resolve Uganda and several partners are hosting How It Ends, the largest ever Lobby Day for an African issue in our nation's capital. More than 1,500 participants from across the country will conduct over 400 meetings with Members of Congress, focused on ending violence against children and families in central Africa being carried out by Joseph Kony's Lord's ...  Read full post

This week one US Senator and three Representatives stepped up to cosponsor the LRA Disarmament and Northern Uganda Recovery Act, joining 13 other members of Congress who've already backed this landmark legislation. However, news of increased LRA attacks on civilians in recent weeks and the inability of regional militaries to protect them demonstrates more than ever the need to permanently ...  Read full post