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Unjust War - Features
Q&A: Invisible Children's Jason Russell
Written by Josh Loveless   
Wednesday, 03 March 2010 03:00

Q&A: Invisible Children's Jason RussellInvisible Children has been one of the more famous social justice organizations over the last few years. They made a movie about the plight of child soldiers in Uganda which turned into a global movement. Most recently, they were in the news for winning Chase Community Bank’s $1 million prize for a nonprofit. We recently talked to Invisible Children co-founder Jason Russell about what the million dollars will help with and how social justice can be more than a T-shirt trend.

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Forgiving the Unforgivable
Written by Catherine Claire Larson   
Wednesday, 24 February 2010 03:00

Forgiving the UnforgivableThe gash across the face of Emmanuel Mahuro, a 17-year-old Rwandan native, is no longer an open wound. Today, like a jagged boundary line on a map, a scar juts down the plateau of his forehead, across the bridge of his nose, and up the slope of his right cheek. It is impossible to look into Emmanuel’s eyes without seeing this deep cut, a mark of division etched across his face—and the face of Rwanda—15 years after the genocide.

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The Alien
Written by Erina Khanakwa   
Wednesday, 11 November 2009 12:00


Kani Ibrahim Mohamed sits perched on a chair with her black and gold gown covering her right past her toes. She keeps adjusting the headscarf over her henna hair while her 3-year-old, Guled, does his best to sit as close as possible to their old television. There are no pictures on the wall and only one large rug covers the floor. The place is so minimal it looks spartan; but for Kani, this is everything—her jewel, her pride, her America. It’s leagues away from her old life in Somalia and Ethiopia and it’s where she can live, as she says over and over, “a freedom life.”

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Beauty Among Ashes
Written by Anna Marie Hopewell   
Wednesday, 04 November 2009 00:00


When you first hear of the violent atrocities in the Democratic Republic of Congo, you can’t imagine that anything of beauty could ever exist there. A bleak thought perhaps, but one that Christine Schuler Deschryver must face every day.

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The Torture Question
Written by Travis Mamone   
Tuesday, 16 June 2009 03:09

altThis past April, President Barack Obama released several memos detailing enhanced interrogation techniques used on terrorism suspects during the Bush administration. Originally issued by the Office of Legal Counsel from 2002 to 2005, the memos state that C.I.A. operatives used such techniques as keeping terrorism suspects awake for eleven days straight, forced nudity, slamming detainees against a wall and waterboarding. While Obama has decided not to press any charges, the debate over torture rages on in America.

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