Children in Uganda are being kidnapped by rebel soldiers and are forced to kill people. They are beaten, and many girls are used as slaves and are constanly raped by the rebel commanders. Oprah has talked about this! The children walk 6 miles a day, all around the country, to a save place, to hide from the rebels, who attack them at night!\nGo to invisiblechildren.com\nYou can write to your congressmen!!!Every time you can get a chance, write a letter every day, send the same letter every day, anything!\nSpread the word!
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While this is disturbing, it is is not surprising.\nSimilar things have taken place in other African nations, especially Sierra Leone.\n\nSpeaking of good books on Africa, Paul Rusesbagina (of Hotel Rwanda fame) has a new book called "An Ordinary Man."\nAn interesting book on a terrible time.
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If your homeless a night in jail is better than a night on the street. Just kidding.  But seriously, out of all the human rights injustices going on around the world, this is the one you chose to ask about?  There is genocide in the Darfur, innocent Iraqi's are getting tortured and blown away.  Honestly, call me when they start killing these people for being homeless otherwise i would say its a bad law but not a human rights violation.
199592
God doesn't leave people to kill each other, unless they choose to.  God did not make man a robot but a creature who can choose right or wrong.  He doesn't want people to starve but many starving nations do not believe in Him, nor call on Him for intervention.  However, missionaries are going into those places and doing a good work.  Others who are Christians and being tortured are victims of an evil power over them in the form of govt.  They are martyrs for their faith.  Many of us have prayed for our brothers and sisters in Sudan for years and we see our prayers answered.  Other Christians have gone in and rescued those being tortured as slaves by the govt.  They are receiving help.  It doesn't matter where you are born, you can always chose to believe in God.  God knows us even before we are designed in our mother's womb.  I came from a non-christian home but I chose to follow after Him, seek Him, serve Him.  I am not exempt from trials, persecution and sorrows of life but I have divine joy and peace because of the hope He brings me.  It is all a matter of faith.  Either believe or not believe.  I'm one who says there are vast rewards to having faith where there is otherwise total hopelessness.  Press on!
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America is not alone in their disregard of African atrocities. It's got nothing to do with being Muslim. It has to do with the fact that there isn't an economic necessity to go in there and do anything unfortunately. Unless we stand up as humans and say something our governments won't do anything about it.
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I think so.  And it's a shame that more people haven't answered this question.  It's horrible what goes on in those regions, and people don't seem to care because Africans tend to be seen as lesser people.  Hence, the lack of action.
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First of i would like to add one thing verbal abuse is pretty darn bad i know this first hand.\n\n\nI say rid any human that is mean and harms children with abuse build another Prison big enough to house them all strict sentence's without parole and appeal's.\n\nNow children are not big enough to take a hit from a grow up, if the people knew this laws was changed and they would face this new law maybe they would think before slugging it out with a child.\n\nPrisons or over populated and they come out as fast as they go in if we can feed other country's spend all that money fighting  other people's wars we could darn well build 500 ace'r prison to put these abuser's  where they belong.\n\nSure nobody will end that one person who lost their temper and hit a child to hard or even stop someone from ending their owe family's.\n\nBut you want a curb on abuse this way.
197577
i think maybe it's a case of 'the oppressed ending up as oppressors', kinda like the theory that says that abused kids are more likely to become abusers as adults. still, SA tells us they're the rainbow nation so i don't get what's going on there. or maybe SA is not the problem at all and it's simply human nature no matter from where. that after too much abuse we humans naturally try to put abuse on others once we get some power. i dunno.
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I found these 2 articles that will hopefully help.  You should honestly check out www.allafrica.com they have a lot of Africa's papers conglomerated.\n\noff our backs, July-August 2005 v35 i7-8 p4(2) \nKenya: all-women village thrives. (news)(Brief Article) Priya Verma; Sara Schoenleber; Carol Anne Douglas; Rachel Pleatman; Jen Mainville; Annsley Chapman; Jennifer Chapin-Harris; Tess Mueting. \nFull Text: COPYRIGHT 2005 Off Our Backs, Inc. \n\nSeeking to escape domestic violence, rape, forced marriage, and other abuse, several dozen women have founded a matriarchal, women-only village that is drawing both economic prosperity, and hatred and jealousy of local men. \n\nThe village of Umoja, meaning "unity" in Swahili, was founded 10 years ago on an abandoned plot of land among dry grasslands. Their dung-and-mud huts are built in a circular pattern and house several dozen women in a thriving and happy village. The women have built a cultural center, a camping site for hikers destined for the nearby Samburu National Reserve, and a business making and selling traditional beadwork necklaces. \n\nIn response local men tried founding their own, men-only village and tourist center. The tourism plan flopped and the men have turned to spying on the women's village, filing a court case to try and shut down the village, and physically attacking the women. The village leader, Rebecca Lolosoli, has even received death threats after attending the recent United Nations world conference on gender. \n\n"We do not have peace in the village now. These men are so angry because we have money and we do not give them any," said Lolosoli. \n\n--info from Worldpulse Magazine 7/05, news.telegraph 8/1/05 \n\nnews compiled by Priya Verma, Sara Schoenleber, Carol Anne Douglas, Rachel Pleatman, Jen Mainville, Annsley Chapman, Jennifer Chapin-Harris and Tess Mueting \n\nAfrica News Service, March 24, 2005 pNA \nSpeed Up Empowerment of Women, Kenya Urged. \nFull Text: COPYRIGHT 2005 Africa News Service. News Provided by Comtex. \n\nNairobi, Mar 25, 2005 (The East African Standard/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- A Ugandan Member of Parliament Ms Miriam Matembe has challenged the Kenya Government to commit itself to the regional instruments agreed upon by other African countries that recognise Affirmative Action for women. \n\n"As a member of the Pan African Parliament, it saddens me that Kenya is not moving in line with the African Union by not having a woman in the regional parliament. The AU recognises that there can be no meaningful development without women's participation," she said. \n\nKenya has not ratified the AU Protocol to the African Charter on Human and People's Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa that was adopted in 2003. \n\nThis protocol is a regional supplement the UN Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women. \n\nIn her opinion, as long as Kenya remains reluctant to streamline policies and laws that promote gender equality it will be difficult to catch up with developments in Uganda and Tanzania. \n\n"How can we enter regional integration when our laws, policies and political systems are not harmonised?" she posed. \n\nCopyright The East African Standard. Distributed by All Africa Global Media(AllAfrica.com) \n\nNews Provided by COMTEX (http://www.comtexnews.com)
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I refuse to pay for something that people I didn't know did 200 years ago. The people now alive should receive nothing... what harm was done them? The issue you mentioned in Namibia is totally different in that some of the victims of WWII are still alive or their immediate descendants. You list slavery as the reasons African nations are so poor.... check on the numbers of slaves that were actually taken from Africa.... it's much less than you think. The reason African nations are so poor is the lack of emphasis given to education then and now.
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Reading the news on what happened to the two soldiers have saddened me deeply. It's horrible to hear how some people, people without regards for morals or sympathy, would do something as terrible as this to two young soldiers. Its disheartening to hear something like this because they are young citizens, a human being like you and me, taken away from this world by means of extreme violence. These soldiers have family and friends who will have to suffer from their loss. These soldiers will no longer have the ability to live life further than they have lived it. Its disheartnening to hear about something like this. May they rest in peace.\nI commend the two soldiers who have died serving our country, and to all members of the armed services who have, had, and will defend our country.
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I don't have specific numbers for you.  Perhaps if you visit Www.goodnewsmagazine.com, they may be able to help you.  THey ran an article some months ago on these child soldiers.
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It is very scary. I have four children. My 2 daughters are teens and it's extremely difficult to try to teach them morals when they are bombarded with negative images and attitudes almost every where they go. I often wonder the same thing you do...what does our future hold? We have to, as a society, start taking this seriously and make some serious changes. A lot of people have become apathetic, not realizing how damaging this all is. Keep speaking up and hopefully, we'll eventually be heard above all the chaos and craziness.
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Good point, but there are more things these slimy fools are doing in Africa.  Raping women, killing Christian women and children, burning churches, torturing kids that refuse to memorize their unholy book and more.  Want proof?  Seek it on this link then!
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I could tell you stories till you beg me to stop. Most children go to State homes-they are not adopted and many do not have family here to take care of them. A few in numbers do fine.\n State homes--you would not believe what happens to many here-especially if they go to Foster homes. I listened to stories on a daily work basis--they are sad. Visit a home and ask them. 8 out of 10-wish they were not left here. Sad but true. I won't go into what happens to most-because of adult content. Oprah once said when she interview some--it is one of America's dirty secrets. Most parents leave them for selfish reasons-I heard them too. they hope they will all benefit. If Mother's would listen they would not leave their children with other people.  I don't know where you are headed with this-but yes go talk to the children who grew up on the State-there are many-more than are left with family. \n That is the bad side-but there are some good stories-but if you weight them out -the worst happens.\n So who have babies and have kept them here--how many are doing very well. Few in numbers I bet.\n\nCan you hear a pin drop  in here?
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Yeah, and why do they wish to stay there to finish their mission so that more Iraq children can be safe?  If they just up and leave, there will be no hope for those children.  I pity the closed-minded people who think that it is our soldiers who are rampantly killing those children and adults.
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I don't agree on any country turning their backs on another holocaust (that is what is happening in Darfur). As the most powerful nations we owe it to help these people get out of the suffering and torture. If we turn our heads away we are no different than those who torture because we see it and did nothing. We cannot afford to do nothing and say we are fighting for peace and stabilization in Iraq.
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I didn't see any reports about Sudan by either George Clooney, Lisa Ling, or Oprah Winfrey, but the Islamist genocide and the fact that Osama has vowed to send members of Al-Qaida to protect the government if we protect the people has further cemented my belief that radical Islam is the cause of the problem, as it is in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, the Palestinian territories, Thailand, the Philippines, and other hot spots in the Muslim world, not to mention parts of the west where Fifth-Columnist Jihadists advocate war against the west, like in the USA, UK, and Continental Europe. In this case I say we should do the same thing in Sudan that we're doing in Iraq -- Overthrow the regime and kill any terrorists who try to take over!