Blog Updates and inspiration

The UN Security Council is holding a press conference on the Lord’s Resistance Army on Tuesday, June 26 at 3pm EDT, and Invisible Children will be there representing you (watch it live online). 3,729,815 people from countries all over the globe signed this pledge: Joseph Kony is one of the world’s worst war criminals, and I call on […]

[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.] We don’t just tour with the greatest bands known to man or make life changing […]

From June 20-22, the United Nations hosted a gathering of world leaders, NGOs, and brilliant minds in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The conference was called Rio+20: The Future We Want, and according to conference organizers, there were a few core goals that they intended to focus on: “The official discussions will focus on two main […]

This past week saw 805 women and men graduate from Invisible Children’s (IC) Functional Adult Literacy (FAL) program. The graduation came after members of IC’s Village Savings and Loan Associations successfully completed a one-year course on basic subjects of numeracy, reading and writing. Due to insecurity from the past war in northern Uganda, many members […]

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 […]

For the past year and a half, our world has seen more protests, revolutions and uprisings than ever before. It’s been a time of action, justice and change, and people around the world have been taking a stand to advocate for their right to live as free citizens in their own countries. Though so much […]

I had never been to a Congressional hearing before yesterday. The highlights: * The room was packed. It was standing room only by the time the event started. * Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA), Chairman of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission, presided over the hearing. I got the feeling that he really cares about this […]

Picking out music to drown my “inbox is so full I’m paralyzed” sorrows this morning just wasn’t happening. Nothing I was skimming through was working. I was getting highly frustrated because I needed some sort of new muse to get me motivated to get a move on this mountain of replies awaiting to be written*. […]

We are a generation who will not stand for the brutality against our brothers and sisters, wherever that may be. As a part of a global connectivity, there is a responsibility that flows from it. Invisible Children stands behind the Cinema for Peace Foundation in its release of “Siege on Syria”, a new short film […]