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charliemielczarek: I had the idea of making this self-portrait the next day. I woke up feeling dreadful. The image of people in the courtyard avoiding my eyes as I am asking for a witness haunts me still. In New York City!? (via Photographer’s Gay-Bashing In Brooklyn Leads To Haunting Image - New York News - La Daily Musto) View high resolution

charliemielczarek:

I had the idea of making this self-portrait the next day. I woke up feeling dreadful. The image of people in the courtyard avoiding my eyes as I am asking for a witness haunts me still. In New York City!? (via Photographer’s Gay-Bashing In Brooklyn Leads To Haunting Image - New York News - La Daily Musto)

(Reblogged from charliemielczarek)

thedailywhat:

African Stereotype of the Day: Gabriel, Benard, Brian, and Derrik, who live in Kenya, were inspired to poke fun at the way African men are portrayed by Hollywood: “If people believed only what they saw in movies,” they said, “they would think we are all warlords who love violence.” Mama Hope — an organization that partners with African organizations to help transform their communities — was more than happy to hand them a mic as part of a video campaign to “Stop the Pity, Unlock the Potential.”

Good stuff.

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(Reblogged from nsglobalstudies)
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The military slang for a man killed by a drone strike is ‘bug splat,’ since viewing the body through a grainy-green video image gives the sense of an insect being crushed.

Michael Hastings, The Rise of the Killer Drones: How America Goes to War in Secret

You know, from the ground, individuals who are killed by drones don’t exactly look like “bug splat.” This drone culture is perverse because warfare is being made to look more and more like a video game and without having to see the disturbing realities of war, we become disconnected from our fellow man, dehumanizing the so-called targets and inviting less calculated violence.

(via mohandasgandhi)

(Reblogged from mohandasgandhi)
doctorswithoutborders: DRC: Civilians and Aid Workers Victims of Renewed Fighting in the Kivus Civilians and aid workers are increasingly the targets of violence in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where armed conflicts and large troop movements have recently intensified, and where security risks have made it increasingly difficult to continue to provide medical care, said the international medical humanitarian organization MSF on Wednesday. National and international stabilization forces in DRC have never been more important, but MSF questions their effectiveness given the worsening situation. “The situation is not stabilizing in Kivu,” said MSF program manager Dr. Marcela Allheimen. “It is deteriorating again, and has been deteriorating over the last several months. We are noticing renewed violence, but what is most alarming is the commonplace nature of violence on civilian populations and aid actors.”Read the whole MSF press release.Photo: DRC 2011 © Ben Milpas Children at the Mweso hospital, where MSF is continuing to work despite the threat of continuing violence View high resolution

doctorswithoutborders:

DRC: Civilians and Aid Workers Victims of Renewed Fighting in the Kivus

Civilians and aid workers are increasingly the targets of violence in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where armed conflicts and large troop movements have recently intensified, and where security risks have made it increasingly difficult to continue to provide medical care, said the international medical humanitarian organization MSF on Wednesday.

National and international stabilization forces in DRC have never been more important, but MSF questions their effectiveness given the worsening situation.

“The situation is not stabilizing in Kivu,” said MSF program manager Dr. Marcela Allheimen. “It is deteriorating again, and has been deteriorating over the last several months. We are noticing renewed violence, but what is most alarming is the commonplace nature of violence on civilian populations and aid actors.”

Read the whole MSF press release.

Photo: DRC 2011 © Ben Milpas
Children at the Mweso hospital, where MSF is continuing to work despite the threat of continuing violence

(Reblogged from doctorswithoutborders)
vicemag: Is Syria the New Bosnia? View high resolution

vicemag:

Is Syria the New Bosnia?

(Reblogged from nsglobalstudies)
united-nations: The Office of the UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict answers questions about UN work to address LRA operations. We hope this conversation will encourage people to learn all of the facts about the hundreds of thousands of children affected by conflict around the world. How does the LRA recruit children and what is their role? Where is the LRA operating? What are the aspirations of the LRA? What are other violations are committed against children by the LRA? What has the United Nations done to address the violations committed against children by the LRA? Why is a military action against the LRA risky? What can I do for the children affected by the LRA? Report of the UN Secretary-General on the Lord’s Resistance Army-affected areas (November 2011, S/2011/693) UNICEF has been working for decades to protect children from violence/abuse. But there’s still much to be done. UNICEF: Video on The Paris Principles: agreement to end the use of children in war UNICEF: More on child soliders International Criminal Court on the Situation in Uganda Find out if your country has signed the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Involvement of Children in armed conflict. Statement from Special Representative Ms. Radhika Coomaraswamy: I am pleased to see such a lively discussion on an issue that is often under-reported. If people want to help, they can support programs for children—-who have escaped the LRA—-to rebuild their lives and their communities throughout Central Africa. Any military action against LRA should pay heed to the fact that Kony’s army is largely comprised of children.

united-nations:

The Office of the UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict answers questions about UN work to address LRA operations. We hope this conversation will encourage people to learn all of the facts about the hundreds of thousands of children affected by conflict around the world.

How does the LRA recruit children and what is their role?

Where is the LRA operating?

What are the aspirations of the LRA?

What are other violations are committed against children by the LRA?

What has the United Nations done to address the violations committed against children by the LRA?

Why is a military action against the LRA risky?

What can I do for the children affected by the LRA?

Report of the UN Secretary-General on the Lord’s Resistance Army-affected areas (November 2011, S/2011/693)

UNICEF has been working for decades to protect children from violence/abuse. But there’s still much to be done.

UNICEF: Video on The Paris Principles: agreement to end the use of children in war

UNICEF: More on child soliders

International Criminal Court on the Situation in Uganda

Find out if your country has signed the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Involvement of Children in armed conflict.

Statement from Special Representative Ms. Radhika Coomaraswamy:

I am pleased to see such a lively discussion on an issue that is often under-reported. If people want to help, they can support programs for children—-who have escaped the LRA—-to rebuild their lives and their communities throughout Central Africa. Any military action against LRA should pay heed to the fact that Kony’s army is largely comprised of children.

(Reblogged from united-nations)
theeconomist: Daily chart: UN data on attitudes among women to domestic violence suggests that in many places, international women’s day is not much to celebrate. Jordan comes top of this (non-comprehensive) list of bad places to be female today. View high resolution

theeconomist:

Daily chart: UN data on attitudes among women to domestic violence suggests that in many places, international women’s day is not much to celebrate. Jordan comes top of this (non-comprehensive) list of bad places to be female today.

(Reblogged from theeconomist)

Takeout story: Behind bulletproof glass and out on a bike for a chinese restaurant in Mott Haven

soupsoup:

You go to that drawer full of menus with dragons or pandas or bamboo on them, and the random Chinese characters, and the obligatory promise of fast and free delivery. And in 25 minutes or so a Chinese man on a bike will come to your door and you’ll maybe drop him a xie xie with your tip and he’ll give you a bye bye and he’s gone. End of story.

But there’s a different version of that story that goes on in many parts of this city. And that version is about money, class, race, and education. And in that version people are robbed, assaulted and killed, and people live in fear, constantly on guard and under threat over Chinese food.

(Reblogged from soupsoup)
captainjhwatson: Since Uganda is getting a lot of interest on the internet right now, I figured it was important to try to present an alternative source of information. Invisible Children is, as many already know, a highly problematic organization, but that shouldn’t stop you from trying to help. Here are some other sources of information, statistics, and ways to donate/help. American Progress’s 2007 report, “What to Do About Joseph Kony” Amnesty International’s 2011 report on Uganda Global Security’s page on the Lord’s Resistance Army Washington Post, “A Child’s Hell in the Lord’s Resistance Army,” May 2006. HRW: “Protect civilians from LRA abuses,” May 2011 AllAfrica.com, “Amnesty International wants Kony arrested,” May 2010 AI’s Uganda Portal Human Rights Watch’s Uganda portal Democracy Now!’s Uganda portal View high resolution

captainjhwatson:

Since Uganda is getting a lot of interest on the internet right now, I figured it was important to try to present an alternative source of information. Invisible Children is, as many already know, a highly problematic organization, but that shouldn’t stop you from trying to help. Here are some other sources of information, statistics, and ways to donate/help.

(Source: earthsmightiestheroes)

(Reblogged from crookedindifference)

steveagee:

please watch this and don’t click “like”, click “reblog”. 

Getting involved with Invisible Children in 2007 is why I’m at the New School studying conflict/post-conflict societies, and specifically focusing on the Democratic Republic of Congo and the surrounding region. I am 26 years old. The Lord’s Resistance Army and Joseph Kony have been terrorizing people as long as I’ve been alive.

(Reblogged from spytap)