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A Big Thank YOU To Warped Fans Another amazing summer on the Vans Warped Tour has come and gone and well there’s just one thing left to say… THANK YOU!! Thank you to all of the bands, the production staff, security, non-profits, sponsors, and of course the fans! The Vans Warped Tour would not be […]

Since January of 2011, Invisible Children has been working diligently with its partners to establish the very first rehabilitation center in DR Congo focused on LRA-affected youth. Even during construction, the Centre (appropriately named Centre Elikya, meaning “hope” in Lingala), has been counseling traumatized children from the local Dungu area since October 2011. An exciting […]

We couldn’t be happier for Abbé Benoît Kinalegu. He has been awarded the Alison Des Forges Award for Extraordinary Activism by Human Rights Watch (HRW), an organization dedicated to defending and protecting human rights. Extraordinary, indeed. A priest and director of the Commision Diocesaine Justice et Paix (CDJP), Abbé Benoît has done an immense amount of work to assist LRA-affected communities. Invisible […]

The field of crisis mapping is a relatively new field, but there’s no denying that it’s growing and having a significant impact on the world. The advantages of crisis mapping are extensive: they offer a way for information to be published directly and instantly from the target region (called crowd-sourcing), they allow for massive amounts […]

The LRA Crisis Tracker, a joint project of Invisible Children and Resolve, just released its Mid-Year Security Brief (PDF). Below we highlight a couple of trends and conclusions that we can see in LRA activity. Resolve’s blog has a full summary of the conclusions. LRA abductions are increasing, but trends indicate they’re mostly abducting people […]

[AUCTION NOW LIVE – Click here] It’s taken us a long while to write this post because we haven’t even come to terms about thinking of what to say, but we no longer can hoard this treasure… Dustin Kensrue’s guitar from our secret acoustic shows during Thrice’s Farewell Tour 2012 is going up for auction. […]

We’ve had some very special connections with a lot of folks over the years, but the bond with our friends in Thrice might take the cake. Simply put, we would not be where we are today without their longstanding support and dedication. It’s such an honor to commemorate their influence on us as an organization […]

The LRA Crisis Tracker is a real-time mapping platform and data collection system created to bring an unprecedented level of transparency to the atrocities of the Lord’s Resistance Army. Using information sourced from Invisible Children’s Early Warning Radio Network, UN agencies, and local NGOs, this tool allows for better response from governments, policy-makers, and humanitarian […]

Since January of 2011, Invisible Children has been working diligently with its partners to establish the very first rehabilitation center in DR Congo focused on LRA-affected youth. With thousands of kids facing trauma at the hands of the LRA over the the past 4 years in DR Congo, the need for highly-specialized care has been […]

[Invisible Children Music: We firmly believe that music has a necessary role in giving social movements tremendous amounts of momentum. It is a universal language, and at Invisible Children, it’s important for us to be a part of that language.] For those of you who haven’t ventured on to the interwebs recently, Thrice’s Farewell Tour has […]