Kony 2012: Be informed

'KONY 2012 is a film and campaign by Invisible Children that aims to make Joseph Kony famous, not to celebrate him, but to raise support for his arrest and set a precedent for international justice.'


There is considerable controversy around the validity of this organisation. It is best to get further information on this subject from more than one source. Some alternate resources are listed below:

•American Progress’s 2007 report, “What to Do About Joseph Kony”
http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2007/10/pdf/kony_report.pdf
•Amnesty International’s 2011 report on Uganda
http://www.amnestyusa.org/research/reports/annual-report-uganda-2011?page=show
•Global Security’s page on the Lord’s Resistance Army
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/para/lra.htm
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/09/AR2006050901907.html
•Washington Post, “A Child’s Hell in the Lord’s Resistance Army,” May 2006.
http://www.hrw.org/news/2011/05/23/uscentral-africa-protect-civilians-lra-abuses
•HRW: “Protect civilians from LRA abuses,” May 2011
http://allafrica.com/stories/201005280352.html
•AllAfrica.com, “Amnesty International wants Kony arrested,” May 2010
http://www.amnestyusa.org/our-work/countries/africa/uganda
•AI’s Uganda Portal
http://www.hrw.org/africa/uganda
•Human Rights Watch’s Uganda portal
http://www.democracynow.org/search?query=uganda&commit=Search
•Democracy Now!’s Uganda portal






Sources/Quotes:

• http://katewax.tumblr.com/post/18899584769