International Justice Mission hopes to open office in Gulu
Imagine coming home for the first time in years and finding that someone else is living in your house. They tell you that it doesn’t belong to you anymore. Now you have to find somewhere else to live, even though you know that you still own the place. This scenario has played out hundreds of […]
Englishman held in custody for LRA massacre
In March, we launched our latest campaign for all the world to see. In the Communications Department we refer to that week as “that time the world exploded.” For one man from Great Britain, that phrase is a pretty accurate description of his experiences in the month of March. David Simpson, a 24-year-old pilot was […]
Global Post: Kony is always one step ahead
Ashley Benner and Kaspar Agger from the Enough Project wrote this article for the Global Post about “how forces fighting the LRA are unprepared, underfunded and incapable.” It’s called Joseph Kony: Always One Step Ahead Sounds bleak. But there very specific things that our leaders can do to give the current mission to arrest Joseph Kony and […]
A visit to Kony’s former home
Australian missionary Christopher White wrote a blog post for Operation Broken Silence about his travels in South Sudan and impromptu visit to the former home of Joseph Kony. Kony occupied the residence for most of the 15 years leading up to the Comprehensive Peace Agreement between Sudan and what is now South Sudan in 2005. Below is an […]
ICC sentences Lubanga to 14 years in prison
On July 10, the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued its first ever sentence from a courtroom in the Hague. The court found Thomas Lubanga Dyilo guilty of using children as soldiers in his rebel force, and sentenced him to 14 years in prison. Many people think that Lubanga’s sentence is too light, and that he […]
South Sudan celebrates first independence day
When South Sudan declared independence last year, the world rejoiced. The small, newly-formed and oil-rich nation had been plagued by civil war with the north for over twenty years. During that time, an estimated two million people had been killed. And now, even though independence is theirs, South Sudan is still facing loads of other […]
The International Criminal Court’s new chief prosecutor
Meet Fatou Bensouda. On June 15, 2012 she replaced Luis Moreno-Ocampo as the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC). The new prosecutor is a native of the African nation of Gambia and studied law in Nigeria. She has previous experience as an attorney and legal adviser during the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, […]
Women in the workplace
As a young and innovative organization, we’re always working towards shifting broken paradigms. Though we focus on permanently ending LRA atrocities, we encourage supporters to engage in other important conversations across the global sphere. In her recently published Atlantic article, Anne-Marie Slaughter describes her attempt to maintain a “work-family balance” throughout her two-year term as […]
On behalf of the youth
Two young Invisible Children supporters attended the United Nations Security Council’s briefing on the LRA last week. A few days before that, they accompanied our CEO Ben Keesey and assisted him in handing over the 3,729,816 signed pledges. Maya and Marcelo represented the millions of young activists that committed their support to see the end […]
Syrian soldiers defect to Turkey
In this age of revolution, uprising, and radical defiance, countries that don’t offer their citizens basic civil rights are being challenged in drastic ways. More and more, we are seeing that in order to achieve social change, conflict and violence are frequently used to achieve it – as is the current case in Syria. After […]