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Kony 2012

Index Kony 2012

Kony 2012 is a short documentary film produced by Invisible Children, Inc. (authors of Invisible Children). [1]

152 relations: Academi, Acholi people, ActionAid, Adolf Hitler, African Union, Alex de Waal, AllAfrica.com, Amama Mbabazi, Amnesty International, Angelina Jolie, Anneke Van Woudenberg, Anthony Lake, Associated Press, Atiak massacre, Barack Obama, Betty Oyella Bigombe, Bill Gates, Brisbane, British Columbia, Canberra, Catholic Relief Services, Cease and desist, Central Africa, Central African Republic, CHAN-DT, Child soldiers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, ChildFund, Children in the military, Chris Coons, Christina Milian, Clark University, Condoleezza Rice, Consumerism, Contactmusic.com, Counter-terrorism, Democratic Party (Uganda), Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Republic of the Congo, Dinaw Mengestu, Doves as symbols, Dungu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, E!, East Africa, Ellen Page, Entertainment Weekly, Ethiopian Americans, Facebook, Financial Times, Foreign Policy, George Clooney, ..., George W. Bush, Global Television Network, Goma, Gotham Chopra, Gulu, Henry Oryem Okello, HuffPost, Human rights, Human Rights Watch, Impressment, International Criminal Court, International Criminal Court investigation in Uganda, Invisible Children, Invisible Children, Inc., Jane Bussmann, Jason Russell, Jay Carney, Jim Inhofe, John Kerry, Joseph Kony, Joshua Keating, Justin Bieber, Kampala, Kelowna, Kickstarter, Kim Kardashian, Lindsey Graham, Lira, Uganda, London School of Economics, Lord's Resistance Army, Lord's Resistance Army Disarmament and Northern Uganda Recovery Act, Los Angeles Times, Luis Moreno Ocampo, Makerere University, Matthew Green (journalist), Metro (British newspaper), Near-sightedness, New York Daily News, Nicholas Kristof, Nicki Minaj, Non-governmental organization, Norbert Mao, Occupy Wall Street, Oprah Winfrey, Osama bin Laden, PBS, Penn State Altoona, Peter Bradshaw, Phoenix, Arizona, Pierre Johannessen, Political corruption, Politico, Popular culture, President of Uganda, Prime Minister of Uganda, Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Radhika Coomaraswamy, Republican Party (United States), Rihanna, Robert Thompson (media scholar), Roger Cohen, Roy Blunt, Rwandan genocide, Ryan Seacrest, San Diego, Second Congo War, Sexual slavery, Slacktivism, South Sudan, Special Forces (United States Army), Staff writer, Taylor Swift, The Canberra Times, The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, The New York Times, The Post-Journal, The Washington Post, The White Man's Burden, Time (magazine), Twitter, Uganda, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations, UNICEF, United Nations, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, United Nations special rapporteur, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, United States National Security Council, United States Senate, Vancouver, Vimeo, Viral video, War Child (charity), War in Darfur, Wetpaint, White House, White House Press Secretary, Wired (magazine), Yambio, YouTube, Yoweri Museveni. Expand index (102 more) »

Academi

Academi is an American private military company founded in 1997 by former Navy SEAL officer Erik Prince as Blackwater, renamed as Xe Services in 2009 and now known as Academi since 2011 after the company was acquired by a group of private investors.

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Acholi people

Acholi (also Acoli) is a Luo Nilotic ethnic group from the eastern Part of South Sudan Magwi County and Northern Uganda (an area commonly referred to as Acholiland), including the districts of Agago, Amuru, Gulu, Kitgum, Nwoya, Lamwo, and Pader.

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ActionAid

ActionAid is an international non-governmental organization whose primary aim is to work against poverty and injustice worldwide.

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Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was a German politician, demagogue, and revolutionary, who was the leader of the Nazi Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei; NSDAP), Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945 and Führer ("Leader") of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945.

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African Union

The African Union (AU) is a continental union consisting of all 55 countries on the African continent, extending slightly into Asia via the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt.

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Alex de Waal

Alexander William Lowndes "Alex" de Waal (born 22 February 1963), a British writer and researcher on African issues, is the executive director of the World Peace Foundation at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.

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AllAfrica.com

AllAfrica.com is a website that aggregates news produced primarily on the African continent about all areas of African life, politics, issues and culture.

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Amama Mbabazi

John Patrick Amama Mbabazi, SC (simply known as Amama Mbabazi, born 16 January 1949) is a Ugandan politician who served as the ninth Prime Minister of Uganda from 24 May 2011 to 19 September 2014.

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Amnesty International

Amnesty International (commonly known as Amnesty or AI) is a London-based non-governmental organization focused on human rights.

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Angelina Jolie

Angelina Jolie (born Angelina Jolie Voight, June 4, 1975) is an American actress, filmmaker, and humanitarian.

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Anneke Van Woudenberg

Anneke Van Woudenberg is a senior researcher for Human Rights Watch, Africa Division.

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Anthony Lake

William Anthony Kirsopp Lake (born April 2, 1939) is the Executive Director of the United Nations International Children's Fund (UNICEF), author, academic, and former American diplomat, Foreign Service Officer, and political advisor.

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Associated Press

The Associated Press (AP) is a U.S.-based not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City.

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Atiak massacre

The Atiak massacre occurred on April 20, 1995, when a group of estimated 300 Lord's Resistance Army soldiers led by Vincent Otti entered the northern Ugandan town of Atiak, Amuru District.

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Barack Obama

Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who served as the 44th President of the United States from January 20, 2009, to January 20, 2017.

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Betty Oyella Bigombe

Betty Oyella Bigombe, also known as Betty Atuku Bigombe (born 21 October 1952), is the Senior Director for Fragility, Conflict, and Violence at the World Bank.

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Bill Gates

William Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American business magnate, investor, author, philanthropist, humanitarian, and principal founder of Microsoft Corporation.

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Brisbane

Brisbane is the capital of and most populous city in the Australian state of Queensland, and the third most populous city in Australia.

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British Columbia

British Columbia (BC; Colombie-Britannique) is the westernmost province of Canada, located between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains.

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Canberra

Canberra is the capital city of Australia.

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Catholic Relief Services

Catholic Relief Services (CRS) is the international humanitarian agency of the Catholic community in the United States.

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Cease and desist

A cease and desist letter is a document sent to an individual or business to stop purportedly illegal activity ("cease") and not to restart it ("desist").

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Central Africa

Central Africa is the core region of the African continent which includes Burundi, the Central African Republic, Chad, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Rwanda.

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Central African Republic

The Central African Republic (CAR; Sango: Ködörösêse tî Bêafrîka; République centrafricaine, or Centrafrique) is a landlocked country in Central Africa.

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CHAN-DT

CHAN-DT, virtual channel 8 (UHF digital channel 22), is a Global owned-and-operated television station located in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, which serves as the West Coast flagship station of the network.

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Child soldiers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

During the first and second civil conflicts which took place in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), all sides involved in the war actively recruited or conscripted child soldiers, known locally as Kadogos which is a Swahili term meaning "little ones".

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ChildFund

ChildFund, formerly known as Christian Children's Fund, is a child development organization based in Richmond, Virginia, United States.

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Children in the military

Children in the military are children (defined by the Convention on the Rights of the Child as persons under the age of 18) who are associated with military organisations, such as state armed forces and non-state armed groups.

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Chris Coons

Christopher Andrew Coons (born September 9, 1963) is the junior United States Senator from Delaware and a member of the Democratic Party.

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Christina Milian

Christine Flores (born September 26, 1981), better known as Christina Milian, is an American singer, songwriter and actress.

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Clark University

Clark University is an American private research university located in Worcester, Massachusetts.

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Condoleezza Rice

Condoleezza Rice (born November 14, 1954) is an American political scientist and diplomat.

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Consumerism

Consumerism is a social and economic order and ideology that encourages the acquisition of goods and services in ever-increasing amounts.

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Contactmusic.com

Contactmusic.com is an online magazine of cultural criticism based in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.

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Counter-terrorism

Counter-terrorism (also spelled counterterrorism) incorporates the practice, military tactics, techniques, and strategy that government, military, law enforcement, business, and intelligence agencies use to combat or prevent terrorism.

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Democratic Party (Uganda)

The Democratic Party (DP) is a moderate conservative political party in Uganda led by Norbert Mao.

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Democratic Party (United States)

The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party (nicknamed the GOP for Grand Old Party).

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Democratic Republic of the Congo

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (République démocratique du Congo), also known as DR Congo, the DRC, Congo-Kinshasa or simply the Congo, is a country located in Central Africa.

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Dinaw Mengestu

Dinaw Mengestu (born 30 June 1978) is an Ethiopian-American novelist and writer.

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Doves as symbols

Doves, usually white in color, are used in a lot of settings as symbols of love, peace or as messengers.

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Dungu, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Dungu is a town in Haut-Uele Province located at the confluence of the Dungu and Kibali Rivers where they join to form the Uele River, south of the Garamba National Park.

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E!

E! (originally an initialism of Entertainment Television) is an American basic cable and satellite television channel that is owned by the NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment Group division of NBCUniversal, all owned by Comcast.

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East Africa

East Africa or Eastern Africa is the eastern region of the African continent, variably defined by geography.

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Ellen Page

Ellen Grace Philpotts-Page (born February 21, 1987) is a Canadian actress.

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Entertainment Weekly

Entertainment Weekly (sometimes abbreviated as EW) is an American magazine, published by Meredith Corporation, that covers film, television, music, Broadway theatre, books and popular culture.

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Ethiopian Americans

Ethiopian Americans are Americans of Ethiopian descent, as well as individuals of American and Ethiopian ancestry.

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Facebook

Facebook is an American online social media and social networking service company based in Menlo Park, California.

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Financial Times

The Financial Times (FT) is a Japanese-owned (since 2015), English-language international daily newspaper headquartered in London, with a special emphasis on business and economic news.

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Foreign Policy

Foreign Policy is an American news publication, founded in 1970 and focused on global affairs, current events, and domestic and international policy.

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George Clooney

George Timothy Clooney (born May 6, 1961) is an American actor, director, producer, screenwriter, and businessman.

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George W. Bush

George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States from 2001 to 2009.

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Global Television Network

Global Television Network (more commonly called Global, or occasionally Global TV) is a privately owned Canadian English-language broadcast television network.

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Goma

Goma is the capital city of North Kivu province in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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Gotham Chopra

Gotham Chopra (born Gautama Chopra on February 23, 1975) is an American author, filmmaker and entrepreneur.

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Gulu

Gulu is a city in the Northern Region of Uganda.

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Henry Oryem Okello

Henry Oryem Okello is a Ugandan lawyer and politician.

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HuffPost

HuffPost (formerly The Huffington Post and sometimes abbreviated HuffPo) is a liberal American news and opinion website and blog that has both localized and international editions.

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Human rights

Human rights are moral principles or normsJames Nickel, with assistance from Thomas Pogge, M.B.E. Smith, and Leif Wenar, December 13, 2013, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy,, Retrieved August 14, 2014 that describe certain standards of human behaviour and are regularly protected as natural and legal rights in municipal and international law.

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Human Rights Watch

Human Rights Watch (HRW) is an international non-governmental organization that conducts research and advocacy on human rights.

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Impressment

Impressment, colloquially "the press" or the "press gang", is the taking of men into a military or naval force by compulsion, with or without notice.

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International Criminal Court

The International Criminal Court (ICC or ICCt) is an intergovernmental organization and international tribunal that sits in The Hague in the Netherlands.

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International Criminal Court investigation in Uganda

The International Criminal Court investigation in Uganda or the situation in Uganda is an ongoing investigation by the International Criminal Court (ICC) into the Lord's Resistance Army insurgency which has been taking place in northern Uganda and neighbouring regions since 1987.

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Invisible Children

Invisible Children is a 2006 American documentary film which depicts the human rights abuses by the Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda.

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Invisible Children, Inc.

Invisible Children, Inc. is an organization founded in 2004 to increase awareness of the activities of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in Central Africa, and its leader, Joseph Kony.

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Jane Bussmann

Jane Bussmann (born 1969 in Marylebone, London) is an English comedian and author, who has written for television and radio.

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Jason Russell

Jason Russell (born October 12, 1978) is an American film and theater director, choreographer, and activist who co-founded Invisible Children, Inc. He is the director of Kony 2012, a short documentary film that went viral in the beginning of March 2012.

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Jay Carney

James "Jay" Carney (born May 22, 1965) is an American journalist who served as White House press secretary for President Barack Obama.

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Jim Inhofe

James Mountain Inhofe (born November 17, 1934) is an American politician serving as the senior United States Senator from Oklahoma, a seat he was first elected to in 1994.

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John Kerry

John Forbes Kerry (born December 11, 1943) is an American politician who served as the 68th United States Secretary of State from 2013 to 2017.

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Joseph Kony

Joseph Rao Kony (born July 24, 1961) is the leader of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), a guerrilla group that formerly operated in Uganda.

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Joshua Keating

Joshua Keating is a foreign policy analyst, staff writer and author of the World blog at Slate, and a former writer and editor at Foreign Policy magazine.

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Justin Bieber

Justin Drew Bieber (born March 1, 1994) is a Canadian singer, actor and songwriter.

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Kampala

Kampala is the capital and largest city of Uganda.

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Kelowna

Kelowna is a city on Okanagan Lake in the Okanagan Valley in the southern interior of British Columbia, Canada.

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Kickstarter

Kickstarter is an American public-benefit corporation based in Brooklyn, New York, that maintains a global crowdfunding platform focused on creativity and merchandising.

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Kim Kardashian

Kimberly Kardashian West (born October 21, 1980) is an American reality television personality and socialite.

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Lindsey Graham

Lindsey Olin Graham (born July 9, 1955) is an American politician and retired U.S. Air Force colonel serving as the senior United States Senator from South Carolina, a seat he has held since 2003.

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Lira, Uganda

Lira is a city in the Northern Region of Uganda.

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London School of Economics

The London School of Economics (officially The London School of Economics and Political Science, often referred to as LSE) is a public research university located in London, England and a constituent college of the federal University of London.

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Lord's Resistance Army

The Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), also known as the Lord's Resistance Movement, is a rebel group and heterodox Christian group which operates in northern Uganda, South Sudan, the Central African Republic, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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Lord's Resistance Army Disarmament and Northern Uganda Recovery Act

The Lord's Resistance Army Disarmament and Northern Uganda Recovery Act was a 2010 US act of Congress promoted by the Obama administration that makes it American policy to kill or capture Joseph Kony and to crush his Lord's Resistance Army rebellion.

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Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper which has been published in Los Angeles, California since 1881.

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Luis Moreno Ocampo

Luis Gabriel Moreno OcampoMoreno Ocampo's surnames are often hyphenated in English-language media to distinguish Moreno as a surname, rather than a given name.

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Makerere University

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Matthew Green (journalist)

Matthew Green (born 17 October 1975) is a British journalist and author.

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Metro (British newspaper)

Metro is the United Kingdom's highest circulation newspaper, published in tabloid format by DMG Media.

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Near-sightedness

Near-sightedness, also known as short-sightedness and myopia, is a condition of the eye where light focuses in front of, instead of on, the retina.

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New York Daily News

The New York Daily News, officially titled Daily News, is an American newspaper based in New York City.

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Nicholas Kristof

Nicholas Donabet Kristof (born April 27, 1959) is an American journalist and political commentator.

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Nicki Minaj

Onika Tanya Maraj (born December 8, 1982), known professionally as Nicki Minaj, is a Trinidadian-born American rapper, singer, songwriter, model, and actress.

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Non-governmental organization

Non-governmental organizations, nongovernmental organizations, or nongovernment organizations, commonly referred to as NGOs, are usually non-profit and sometimes international organizations independent of governments and international governmental organizations (though often funded by governments) that are active in humanitarian, educational, health care, public policy, social, human rights, environmental, and other areas to effect changes according to their objectives.

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Norbert Mao

Norbert Mao is a Ugandan politician and lawyer.

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Occupy Wall Street

Occupy Wall Street (OWS) was a protest movement that began on September 17, 2011, in Zuccotti Park, located in New York City's Wall Street financial district, receiving global attention and spawning a surge in the movement against economic inequality worldwide.

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Oprah Winfrey

Oprah Winfrey (born Orpah Gail Winfrey; January 29, 1954) is an American media proprietor, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist.

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Osama bin Laden

Usama ibn Mohammed ibn Awad ibn Ladin (أسامة بن محمد بن عوض بن لادن), often anglicized as Osama bin Laden (March 10, 1957 – May 2, 2011), was a founder of, the organization responsible for the September 11 attacks in the United States and many other mass-casualty attacks worldwide.

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PBS

The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcaster and television program distributor.

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Penn State Altoona

Penn State Altoona is a commonwealth campus of The Pennsylvania State University.

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Peter Bradshaw

Peter Bradshaw (born 19 June 1962) is an English writer and film critic.

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Phoenix, Arizona

Phoenix is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Arizona.

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Pierre Johannessen

Pierre Soheil Johannessen is an Australian Human Rights activist, journalist and recipient of the ACT Young Australian of the Year award for 2010.

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Political corruption

Political corruption is the use of powers by government officials or their network contacts for illegitimate private gain.

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Politico

Politico, known earlier as The Politico, is an American political journalism company based in Arlington County, Virginia, that covers politics and policy in the United States and internationally.

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Popular culture

Popular culture (also called pop culture) is generally recognized as a set of the practices, beliefs, and objects that are dominant or ubiquitous in a society at a given point in time.

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President of Uganda

The President of the Republic of Uganda is the head of state and head of government of Uganda.

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Prime Minister of Uganda

The Prime Minister of Uganda chairs the Cabinet of Uganda, although the President is the effective head of government.

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Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court

The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court is the officer of the International Criminal Court whose duties include the investigation and prosecution of the crimes under the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court, namely genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes as well as the crime of aggression once that crime comes under the Court's jurisdiction which will not be the case before 2017.

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Radhika Coomaraswamy

Deshamanya Radhika Coomaraswamy (born 1953) was the Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations, Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict until 13 July 2012.

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Republican Party (United States)

The Republican Party, also referred to as the GOP (abbreviation for Grand Old Party), is one of the two major political parties in the United States, the other being its historic rival, the Democratic Party.

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Rihanna

Robyn Rihanna Fenty (born 20 February 1988) is a Barbadian singer, songwriter, actress, and businesswoman.

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Robert Thompson (media scholar)

Robert J. Thompson (born August 3, 1959 in Hinsdale, Illinois) is an American educator and media scholar.

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Roger Cohen

Roger Cohen (born 2 August 1955) is a journalist and author.

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Roy Blunt

Roy Dean Blunt (born January 10, 1950) is an American politician who serves as the junior United States Senator from Missouri, having been in office since 2011.

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Rwandan genocide

The Rwandan genocide, also known as the genocide against the Tutsi, was a genocidal mass slaughter of Tutsi in Rwanda by members of the Hutu majority government.

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Ryan Seacrest

Ryan John Seacrest (born December 24, 1974) is an American radio personality, television host, and producer.

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San Diego

San Diego (Spanish for 'Saint Didacus') is a major city in California, United States.

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Second Congo War

The Second Congo War (also known as the Great War of Africa or the Great African War, and sometimes referred to as the African World War) began in August 1998 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, little more than a year after the First Congo War, and involved some of the same issues.

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Sexual slavery

Sexual slavery and sexual exploitation is attaching the right of ownership over one or more persons with the intent of coercing or otherwise forcing them to engage in one or more sexual activities.

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Slacktivism

Slacktivism (slactivism or slackervism, a portmanteau of slacker and activism) is a pejorative term for "feel-good" measures in support of an issue or social cause.

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South Sudan

South Sudan, officially known as the Republic of South Sudan, is a landlocked country in East-Central Africa.

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Special Forces (United States Army)

The United States Army Special Forces, colloquially known as the Green Berets due to their distinctive service headgear, are a special operations force tasked with five primary missions: unconventional warfare (the original and most important mission of Special Forces), foreign internal defense, special reconnaissance, direct action, and counter-terrorism.

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Staff writer

In journalism, a staff writer byline indicates that the author of the article is an employee of the periodical, as opposed to being an independent freelance writer.

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Taylor Swift

Taylor Alison Swift (born December 13, 1989) is an American singer-songwriter.

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The Canberra Times

The Canberra Times is a daily newspaper, published by Fairfax Media in Canberra.

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The Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph, commonly referred to simply as The Telegraph, is a national British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed across the United Kingdom and internationally.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Post-Journal

The Post-Journal is a conservative daily newspaper, serving the area around Jamestown, New York.

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The Washington Post

The Washington Post is a major American daily newspaper founded on December 6, 1877.

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The White Man's Burden

"The White Man's Burden: The United States and the Philippine Islands" (1899), by Rudyard Kipling, is a poem about the Philippine–American War (1899–1902), in which he invites the United States to assume colonial control of that country.

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References

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