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Videos
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Causecast featured organization Witness share the story of child soldiers in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Through the voices of child soldiers, this video explores the complexity of the war, the issues confronted by girl soldiers including rape and sexual exploitation, and the importance of the International Criminal Court to end the rampant impunity reigning in Eastern DRC.
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C60: Invisible Children-How It Ends, Lobby Days in D.C.
In Northern Uganda, rebel leader Joseph Kony has abducted over 30,000 children to fight as child soldiers in a war that has been in existence for 20 years. Causecast featured organization Invisible Children has been actively raising awareness about these issues and motivated to find solutions. This episode of Cause in 60 highlights Invisible Children and 1,700 supporters which met in Washington DC for Lobby Days. The goal is to get Senate Bill 1067 passed in order to create a strategy to end the 20 year war and rescue the abducted children. Take action now at causecast.org/howitends
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TRI is a campaign to give you the opportunity to mobilize our mission by pledging just $3 a week. To bring the 3000 child soldiers home it will take an army of at least 3,000 individuals to pledge $3 a week through TRI. Your $3 a week will go straight to advocacy, awareness and events that will lead to The Rescue of the child soldiers. Over the course of your membership, Invisible Children will send you exclusive products and updates. Your TRI donation will stop as soon as Joseph Kony’s child soldiers are set free. So if you believe in this movement, and you want to see an end to this war, sign up now. If you don’t TRI, who will?
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Invisible Children The Rescue - Together We Are Free
Causecast featured organization Invisible Children organized The Rescue, a worldwide movement to raise awareness about the child abductions in Uganda.
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Child Soldiers | Human Rights Month
Join Causecast, Human Rights Action Center, Jack Healey and Aung San Suu Kyi in celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on Human Rights Day, December 10, 2008. Human Rights day is celebrated to promote the universal human right, to live and to do so peacefully. This day was declared to raise awareness of human rights and of those who are deprived of these rights. Get involved by signing the petition at HumanRightsActionCenter.org which will be presented to Obama and his administration in January, requesting that he give the order to print the declaration in every US passport, setting a precedent that other governments will hopefully adopt.
Articles
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US Limits Military Aid to Nations Using Child Soldiers
Governments involved in the use of children as soldiers may no longer be eligible for US military assistance, Human Rights Watch said today.
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Mai Mai militia frees 85 child soldiers in Congo
A pro-government militia group in the Democratic Republic of Congo has released some 85 child soldiers, UNICEF has announced.
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Cambodian Landmines Defused By Former Child Soldier
A former child soldier, responsible for setting thousands of landmines in Cambodia, now works to clear his homeland of these devastating devices.
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More U.N. Member States Pledge Not To Use Child Soldiers
The United Nations reported today that eight more nations have agreed to endorse the U.N. declaration against the use of child soldiers.
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Over 3,000 Children Are Forced To Become Soldiers In Congo
A human rights atrocity is happening in the Democratic Republic of Congo. A huge amount of children are being forced to become soldiers.
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Ten Things You Should Know About Child Labor
Child labor. We all know it's an issue, but what do we really know? Get the facts here and learn what you can do to make the world safer for our children.
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More Human Rights Are Violated In Congo, Somalia & Zimbawe
10 humanitarian agencies including Human Rights Watch and Oxfam have urged the UN to send more troops to protect civilians in East Congo.
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Slavery Today - Yes, It Still Does Exist
Statistics show that a million to four million kids are trafficked into slavery every year, and that there could be as much as 30 million slaves in the world.
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Nkunda and I: My Day With The Charismatic Congolese Warlord
Less than a year ago, at 25 years old, I went deep into the war-zone on a motorcycle to meet Nkunda. This is my story from that day.
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Become a Secret Shopper for Burma!
Why do we need “secret shoppers”?
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Salon PURE and Citizen LA present: Falling Whistles Runway Hair Show
The Los Angeles Community Coming Together to Celebrate Fashion, Art, and Expression for Child Soldiers in the Congo.
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Brownback Calls for Action Against "Conflict Coltan"
Brownback says mineral coltan is source of conflict in Congo, U.S. must do its part.
Events
- CAUSECAST/INVISIBLE CHILDREN - LA RESCUE EVENT Location: Causecast Headquarters 902 Colorado Ave. Santa Monica, CA 90401
- HOW IT ENDS Location: Washington, D.C.
People
- katy84 TX
Blog posts
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"I LIVE HERE" the book launches October 14!
It's hard to believe that I LIVE HERE is done. When I first met with Michael Simons and Paul Shoebridge in a café in Vancouver, I told them this would be an easy project and would take seven months...
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This comment was sent to me by an Unknown Soldier... "Your comment was right on target. Your second to last line is so very true. I am a Soldier, who's will to fight for our country has been cru...
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Love--Falling Whistles--Feb 7th Dallas
Coming to Dallas Feb 7th....a benefit for Falling Whistles...featuring music, art, and LOVE...details coming...Veritas will be there as well as members of the Veritas Artist Collective- in the mean...
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Here is the link for the story at Reuters http://af.reuters.com/article/drcNews/idAFLN34164620090123 Please read my friend Seans encounter with Nkunda in the DRC before he started his organi...
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This is the story of a single day. A single, shape-shifting, life-changing, perspective-altering, never.be.the.same.kinda day. I originally went to Africa to put shoes on kid’s feet. My fri...
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My first day in Northeast Congo marks the first day of preparation for the Peace Conference. After 11 years of war, America called a cease-fire and peace talks have begun. There are five gener...
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We do what we can to support charities on a personal level and as a band. What is going on with the child soldiers is an atrocity. If donating a song to a benefit compilation will help make the w...
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Vallon has chosen to participate in The Rescue because we feel that Invisible Children are providing a glimpse of hope for the child soldiers in Uganda. No person, especially a child, should be tak...
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Aaron Cohen tweeting in the Burmese jungle
Human rights activist and Causecast leader Aaron Cohen has been tweeting up a storm in Burma, where he unexpectedly had the opportunity to travel and is negotiating the release of child soldiers fr...
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Honorable MENtion: Jimmie Briggs
In commemorating women who have left a mark in our nation’s history, it’s important to also acknowledge men who have taken on women’s issues. That’s the very reason once a week during Women’s Histo...
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fiN. wholeheartedly support the efforts Invisible Children are making to rescue child soldiers in Uganda. The campaign is doing a great job at raising awareness of the awful situation in Uganda tha...
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The abduction of children for the purposes of turning them into soldiers is a great injustice. War, in all its forms, is one of the great evils of humanity, but making children part of war is an e...
