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The world's biggest gun show, NO BACKGROUND CHECK REQUIRED 27FEB13

THE U.S. has a chance to do something this Spring to help reduce gun violence in America and in conflict zones around the world. Pres Obama needs to hear from us, tell him to tell the American people the nra is lying about the Arms Trade Treaty and that America has a moral responsibility to do what it can to help lessen gun violence in the U.S. and around the world. Click the link.....

	Are some of these gun show exhibitors supplying bad guys?
	Dear Craig, Need an AK-47? How about 6,000 for an army of child soldiers? The International Defense Exhibition and Conference (IDEX), which concluded last week in Abu Dhabi, Dubai, bills itself as one of the biggest arms bazaars in the world. However, among the more than 1,100 companies exhibiting at IDEX were manufacturers whose products have made it a lot easier for bad guys to wreak havoc. After all, there are currently no global checks in place to keep guns out of the wrong hands. We've got less than a month to go before states convene at the United Nations in New York to finalize a historic Arms Trade Treaty. Take action now to make this Arms Trade Treaty strong so that no more weapons can fall through gaping loopholes and into dangerous hands. Amnesty International has been able to trace the flow of weapons from manufacturers exhibiting at IDEX to the very weapons used in countries where serious human rights abuses have taken place. There were no checks in place then to stop the free flow of weapons: from Pakistan to Sri Lanka, even though the country was embroiled in a brutal civil war that lasted three decades or from China to the Democratic Republic of Congo, where both armed groups and government forces alike use child soldiers  or from the United States to Bahrain, like the tear gas used by government forces against peaceful protesters But we can ensure that there are checks in place now if we urge the Obama administration to support a strong Arms Trade Treaty. All the while, NRA officials keep fueling a false#gunversation about the Arms Trade Treaty claiming that its purpose is to infringe on American gun owners rights -- knowing full well that it has no impact on gun rights within U.S. borders whatsoever. In fact, the gun lobby will be in D.C. today continuing to spread their misinformation campaign during Congressional hearings about gun control. So if NRA officials have their way and the Arms Trade Treaty is weakened, then we would see more children recruited as soldiers, more women raped in conflict zones, more families driven from their homes and more senseless deaths. We've got to make sure the record is set straight before March 18, when Arms Trade Treaty negotiations begin. We must do all we can to close dangerous loopholes, like the one that makes international gun shows an open bazaar for the suppliers of warlords and human rights criminals. The Arms Trade Treaty has the potential to protect families from gun violence on a global scale. Show President Obama that you care about protecting families worldwide against gun violence by taking action now. Your voice makes a difference in the global gun debate. Thank You, Michelle Ringuette Chief of Campaigns & Programs Amnesty International USA		No background checks needed  A strong Arms Trade Treaty would help keep guns from falling into the wrong hands.
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The children left out of Obama's inaugural speech 23JAN13

THE nra isn't just opposed to gun control in the U.S., keeping all of us, including our children,  exposed to a higher risk of gun violence that the people of all industrial countries. They are also opposed to any international arms control treaty that would impose controls on the international arms market (AND NOT ON ANY ASPECT OF GUN OWNERSHIP IN THE U.S.), protecting the profits of the gun industry in America and allowing the flow of American guns to Mexican drug cartels and keeping the international weapons trade open and flourishing. Terrorist will continue to have easy access to weapons and children around the world are exposed to gun violence as child soldiers and as victims of drug violence, political and economic violence and terrorism. Please sign the Amnesty International petition to Pres Obama calling on him to support the International Arms Control Treaty being drafted at the U.N. This from A.I.

	Children as targets? Children as soldiers? All children deserve to be protected from gun violence no matter where they live.
	The United States is not the only country where children are facing an epidemic of gun violence. While in the U.S., we continue to grapple with the tragic reality of children who routinely face gun violence in their communities and children who increasingly are the targets of mass shootings, in other places around the world, we see the heartbreaking consequences of children who also face thedaily horrors of armed conflict, many forced to become soldiers. During Monday's inaugural address, President Obama said: "Our journey is not complete until all our children, from the streets of Detroit to the hills of Appalachia to the quiet lanes of Newtown, know that they are cared for, and cherished, and always safe from harm." However, the President could have -- and should have -- broadened his statement to include children from the war-torn neighborhoods of Aleppo, Syria to valleys of Ituri in the Democratic Republic of Congo, because if protecting all children is our shared destination, then we can’t afford to let our concern be confined by U.S. borders. We must call on the President to lead efforts to establish a strong Arms Trade Treaty, one that will help stop irresponsible and illegal arms transfers around the world that directly contribute to the recruitment of child soldiers. You have probably heard about Joseph Kony and the Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda -- the group responsible for widespread murder, rape, maiming and amassing throngs of child soldiers. Fewer people know about the recruitment of child soldiers by Bosco Ntaganda, a commander of the FPLC armed group in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Fewer still realize that the armed groups who have taken control of the northern part of Mali, as well as the Malian army, are also using child soldiers. Why do children in Uganda, the DRC and Mali continue to have a target on their back?  Because a global free-for-all lets weapons flow into the hands of armed groups and governments who, in turn, recruit children and commit other grave abuses. By failing to make the establishment of a global Arms Trade Treaty a priority, President Obama is letting them get away with it. Protect all children from violence -- please call for a strong Arms Trade Treaty. It's simple; no child should be forced to stand on either side of a weapon. But the gun lobby in the U.S. is still trying to make you believe that this is about taking guns away from law-abiding Americans. It's not. The Arms Trade Treaty would put in place common-sense measures, like background checks on international arms sales, to stop or at least slow the sale of weapons between countries that fuel conflict, atrocities and instability as well as lead to the displacement and deaths of millions of civilians and the continued use of child soldiers. More than 43,000 of you have helped set the record straight for the NRA's leadership. Thanks for supporting children everywhere who are trapped by armed conflict. Your voice is so important as we prepare for the UN to hold its conference on the Arms Trade Treaty in March. Every child deserves that same right no matter where they live. With your help, we can make this Arms Trade Treaty "bullet-proof". Michelle Ringuette Chief of Campaigns & Programs Amnesty International USA		Protect children from the global arms trade President Obama, in his second term in office, can help protect all children from gun violence around the world by supporting a strong Arms Trade Treaty in March.
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Click. Boom. Why Amnesty's gone bananas; We need millions to sign the petition for a strong Arms Trade Treaty 28JUN12

BAHRAIN, Syria, Somalia, Yemen, The Democratic Rep of Congo, Uganda, The Central African Republic, Mali, Chad, Colombia, Mexico...just some of the countries being devastated by the world's rampant arms trade supplying every weapon imaginable to tyrants, despots, drug cartels and terrorist. The UN is meeting next week on this issue and Amnesty International has an ongoing campaign calling on the international community to take action to regulate and enforce restrictions on the arms trade. They face formidable opposition, here in the U.S. war is big business and the military-industrial complex often dictates our foreign and military policies, Check out the information below and sign Amnesty's petition to Pres Obama to be part of the solution, not part of the problem...

We need millions to sign the petition for a strong Arms Trade Treaty

World leaders are meeting in July to draw up the first ever international Arms Trade Treaty. This treaty could save countless lives and help prevent human rights abuses around the world – but we have just one shot to get it right. Sign the petition to demand a bulletproof Arms Trade Treaty! Most governments continue to permit irresponsible trade of weapons. Treaties regulate the global trade of many goods – even bananas and dinosaur bones – but not guns and bullets.
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Kony 2012: Invisible Children Campaign Pressures U.S. Government To Capture Joseph Kony (TAKE ACTION) 7MAR12 & Invisible Children responds to criticism about ‘Stop Kony’ campaign 8MAR12

HERE is a campaign for children we should all participate in, so please read the story and click the link to go to their website, sign the petition and take other action to support the Kony 2012: Invisible Children Campaign. You should also read the Washington Post article that follows and check out Invisible Children on Charity Navigator.....

Joseph Kony is not exactly a household name in the United States. Of course, few rebel leaders in sub-Saharan Africa are -- even ones like Kony, whom the International Criminal Court branded a war criminal. But one American filmmaker is determined to raise Kony's profile, for the express purpose of bringing him to justice.
Documentarian Jason Russell is shining the spotlight on Kony, who is the leader of the vile Lord's Resistance Army, a notoriously bloodthirsty group in Uganda that, in an effort to destabilize the government, turns young Ugandan girls into sex slaves and young boys -- more than 30,000 of them -- into cold-blooded killers in his force.
When the U.S. Congress told Russell that Kony didn't present enough of a financial threat or a security issue to pursue, Russell formed a nonprofit (Invisible Children), produced a film ("Kony 2012") and created a social-media campaign bent on toppling Kony. That strategy showcased its power this week. The film made its online world premiere Monday, and the hashtags #stopkony and the phrases "Uganda" and "Invisible Children" have each been a trending topic on Twitter in the last 24 hours -- sometimes two at the same time. At press time, the film had received nearly 250,000 Facebook likes.
Russell founded Invisible Children in 2006. The organization uses storytelling to inform and galvanize. It was this type of advocacy tool that pressured President Barack Obama to act, which he did by deploying 100 American military advisors to Uganda in October, according to Russell's film.
"We used to think that we could not do it and now that I see that we can do it," Jolly Okot, one of Invisible Children's executives, said then when Obama announced his decision. "I am overwhelmed."
Russell's mission continues to gain considerable traction.
"Kony 2012" -- which details how Ugandan children live in fear of being abducted and are forced, among other horrific acts, to murder their parents -- has gone viral. And Invisible Children's online pledge to bring Kony to justice, which just went up online on Tuesday, has since already collected 105,000 signatures.
But the activist knows he can't get complacent.
In the film, Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) tells Russell, "If we take the pressure off, if we're not successful, [Kony] is going to be growing his numbers. If interest wanes, it'll just go away. It's got to be 2012."
To fulfill his mission to capture Kony in the Ugandan jungle this year, Russell continues to open the eyes and minds of advocates who can spread the word and pressure the government to work even harder.
Part of the campaign also hinges on encouraging 20 cultural tastemakers and 12 policy makers, including the likes of Angelina Jolie and Oprah Winfrey, to take a stand.
"I'd like indicted war criminals to share the same celebrity as me," said George Clooney in the film. "That seems fair."
To get involved in the mission to make Kony a household name and a priority of the U.S. government, consider getting involved in the following ways:
Sign the pledge.
Get the advocacy kit.
Donate.
Share the movie.
"If the government doesn't believe that people care," Russell said in his film, "the mission will be canceled."
CORRECTION: An earlier version of this story stated that Kony 2012 is seeking the help of 20 culture makers and 20 policy makers. The campaign is targeting 20 culture makers and 12 policy makers


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Invisible Children responds to criticism about ‘Stop Kony’ campaign

By Elizabeth Flock

This post has been updated.
A new campaign spreading across the Internet says it has one goal in mind: To bring to justice Joseph Kony, the Ugandan leader of the violent, child-recruiting Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA).

Joseph Kony. (Stuart Price - AP)
The viral film, with tens of millions of views in the last day alone, was created by Invisible Children, a charity that seeks to end the conflict in Uganda and raises awareness about human rights abuses by Kony and the LRA.
But some activists have voiced concerns about the methods used by Invisible Children, such as manipulating the facts, to promote its cause.
Jedediah Jenkins, director of idea development for Invisible Children, called the criticism “myopic” and said the film represented a “tipping point” in that it got young people to care about an issue on the other side of the planet that doesn’t affect them.
#StopKony has been trending worldwide on Twitter since Tuesday, and, as of this writing, the video “Kony2012” has a combined 47 million views on YouTube and Vimeo — 32 million of which were in the last 20 hours alone.
Kony is undeniably brutal, and the World Bank estimates that under his leadership the LRA has abducted and forced around 66,000 children to fight with them during the past two decades. In October, President Obama committed 100 U.S. troops to help the Ugandan army remove Kony.
But in November, a Foreign Affairs article pointedly challenged the tactics used by Invisible Children and other nonprofits working in the region. “Such organizations have manipulated facts for strategic purposes, exaggerating the scale of LRA abductions and murders and emphasizing the LRA’s use of innocent children as soldiers, and portraying Kony — a brutal man, to be sure — as uniquely awful, a Kurtz-like embodiment of evil,” the magazine wrote.
One of Invisible Children’s partner organizations, Resolve, responded to the accusation at the time in a blog post, calling it a “serious charge ... published with no accompanying substantiation.”
Jenkins maintained Wednesday that the numbers of child abductions the charity uses are not exaggerated. They are often the same numbers as the ones used by Human Rights Watch and the United Nations, he said.
Charity Navigator, a U.S.-based charity evaluator, gives Invisible Children mixed rankings. The charity received four of four stars financially and two stars for the category of accountability and transparency.
Invisible Children received two stars, Jenkins said, because the charity has only four independent board members instead of five. He said it is currently interviewing for a fifth position.
A bill Invisible Children helped pass into law in 2009 has also been criticized. The bill is designed to support stabilization and peace in Uganda and areas affected by the LRA. Critics say it has strengthened the hand of the Ugandan president, whose security forces have a human rights abuse record of their own. The Enough Project, an NGO that fights genocide and human rights abuses, has said the bill’s bipartisan support showed people “come together for peace.”
“There is a huge problem with political corruption in Africa,” said Jenkins. “If we had the purity to say we will not partner with anyone corrupt, we couldn’t partner with anyone.”
Human rights activists agree, however, that the abuses of the LRA are far worse than those of Uganda’s security forces. Over the past two decades, the LRA made it common practice to enter towns and kill the adults, take the male children as soldiers, and sexually abuse the female children.
Lt. Col. Mamadou Gaye, a military spokesman for a United Nations stabilization mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo, said recently that the LRA “has been weakened” by military efforts. The group is believed to now have only about 250 armed members. Gen. Carter Ham, the head of U.S. Africa Command, said recently that Kony was no longer in Uganda.
On April 20, Invisible Children is calling on its supporters to stop Kony and the LRA’s campaign once and for all — by using the social media and viral tactics that have made “Kony2012” so widespread.
“This is the day when we will meet at sundown and blanket every street in every city until the sun comes up,” Jason Russell, who directed the film for Invisible Children, says in the video. “The rest of the world will go to bed Friday night and wake up to hundreds of thousands of posters demanding justice.”
But “Visible Children,” a Tumblr blog that has received much attention for questioning the efforts of Invisible Children, wrote Wednesday that those social media tactics aren’t helping. “These problems are highly complex, not one-dimensional and, frankly, aren’t of the nature that can be solved by postering, film-making and changing your Facebook profile picture, as hard as that is to swallow,” the blog wrote.
Jenkins doesn’t agree. “There is only so much policymakers and foundations can do,” he said. He thinks that if a high schooler and a adult were asked today who Joseph Kony is, only the high schooler would know the answer, as a result of Invisible Children’s film.
“The film has reached a place in the global consciousness where people know who Kony is, they know his crimes,” Jenkins said. “Kids know and they respond. And then they won’t allow it to happen anymore.”

View Photo Gallery: President Obama announced last year the deployment of about 100 troops to target the leadership of the insurgent group from northern Uganda. Here’s a look at some of the members, and victims, of the Lord’s Resistance Army.

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By Elizabeth Flock  |  11:40 AM ET, 03/08/2012

Obama Aide Backs Child Soldier Policy 1NOV10 from MOJO

THE PRESIDENT should consider what life would be like for his daughters if they lived in any of these countries, as girls, as women, as child soldiers. Maybe if he would have put that kind of human face on this issue he would take a strong stand on the human rights aspect instead of standing up for the greed of the corporations with profit interest in these countries......Hey Michele Obama, as a mother, do you approve of child soldiers??????
Last week, Foreign Policy's Josh Rogin broke the story that the Obama White House had decided to quietly waive sanctions against four countries—Chad, Yemen, Sudan, and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)—that use child soldiers. Through the International Military Education and Training (IMET) fund, the United States supports a number of military training and counter terrorism programs in each of these countries. If the Obama adminstration had adhered to 2008's Child Soldiers Prevention Act—a law the president himself co-sponsored when he served in the Senate—that funding should have been yanked. Instead, the administration effectively gave the four offending countries a pass, with the State Department arguing that withdrawing the assistance would jeopardize America's ability to "positively influence the negative behavoir patterns currently exhibited."
Naturally, the decision to waive sanctions angered human rights activists and others who believed the adminstration was caving on a key issue. On Friday the White House hosted a conference call to smooth things over with Hill staffers and represenatives of NGOs, including Human Rights Watch, Oxfam, and World Vision. On the White House end of the line was Samantha Power, the National Security Council's senior director for multilateral affairs and human rights. "Given the way you all heard about the implementation of the statute," she said on the call, "I can understand why some of the reactions that you had were prevalent."
Power covered the wars in the Balkans in the mid-'90s before attending Harvard Law School. She's also a professor at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, and authored the Pulitzer-prize winning A Problem From Hell: America and the Age of Genocide, a sweeping history of the persisting causes of genocide. In it, Power argues that countries like the United States must consider how their interests in other parts of the world profoundly shape those countries' human rights equations.
Power's book doesn’t let anyone off the hook, so it's more than a little jarring to hear that Power was forced to defend the White House's non-announcement of the controversial waiver. Participants on the call argued that the four countries have had plenty of time to adapt to the Child Soldier Prevention Act's rules on child soldiers, and that military aid hasn't had any palpable impact on reforming their practices so far. Even worse, the United States loses leverage over those four countries by forgoing sanctions. Power said that the Obama administration still plans to fight the use of child soldiers, and warn Chad, Yemen, Sudan, and the DRC that they wont get off so easy next time.
From Rogin:

Power repeatedly attempted to argue that the attention over the president's decision to waive sanctions was exactly the kind of public pressure needed to spur violator governments to change. However, her argument was complicated by the fact that the administration failed to tell anyone about the decision and announced it with no rollout or explanation whatsoever.

Power's knack for spin isn't why she was brought onto the Obama campaign as an advisor back in 2008 and later given a job on the NSC. Presumably it was her staunch commitment to human rights, which was in line with Obama's own campaign pledges on the subject. Working as a top aide to the president, though, she's required to sell his policies. But you have to wonder if she's actually on board with this one.

HUMAN RIGHTS FIRST RIGHTS WIRE E MAIL NEWSLETTER 13AUG10

ARTICLES on Blood Diamonds & Sierra Leone and charles taylor, Gitmo, Egypt, elections, the Omar Khadr trial, human rights, labor......

HRF'S E-NEWSLETTER August 13, 2010 EMAIL TO A FRIEND» DONATE» From the President and CEO» Naomi Campbell and Blood Diamonds» Egyptian Activist Promoting Election Transparency through New Media» HRF Founding Executive Director Mike Posner on Colbert Report» Prop 8 Victory Reminds of Need for Progress Abroad» HRF in the News» From the President and CEO Hitting the Campaign Trail to Close Guantánamo This week marks a new low at Guantánamo, as the United States begins the trial of Omar Khadr, who was picked up in Afghanistan at age 15 and has spent more than a quarter of his life at Guantánamo. International law prohibits the use of children under 18 in armed conflict and requires states to rehabilitate child soldiers by assisting with their physical and psychological recovery and social reintegration. The United States has failed to abide by these obligations; instead it began jury selection in Khadr's trial, undermining a fundamental norm and setting a dangerous precedent for children forced into armed conflict around the world. This development underscores what we know from our years of observing military commissions at Guantánamo: setting up a trial system that depends on coerced confessions, redefining the laws of war, and violating fundamental human rights standards is not only wrong, it's counter-productive. And in terms of convicting those who have committed terrorist acts, military commissions are a poor substitute for our federal courts. Not only have they failed to guarantee due process, they have only managed to convict four people, while the federal courts have convicted more than 400 terrorism suspects since 9/11. As the election season gets underway, we're sharing the facts about military commissions with congressional candidates. Next week we will be in Illinois with retired military leaders who continue to speak out against torture and Guantánamo. They will make the case to candidates from both parties that closing Guantánamo and relying on our time-tested federal courts for terrorism trials will make our nation stronger and more secure. You can join us in Illinois next week by signing our petition which we'll deliver personally to the candidates. Watch the retired military leaders making the case for federal courts in our video-and join them in Illinois by signing the petition! Sincerely, Elisa Massimino President and CEO Human Rights First Naomi Campbell and Blood Diamonds Last week Naomi Campbell appeared as a witness in the war crimes trial of Charles Taylor. How does a supermodel end up in an international tribunal? In 1997, Taylor allegedly gave Campbell the gift of a blood diamond.  Prosecutors sought Campbell's testimony to help establish the timing of Taylor's possession of diamonds from Sierra Leone, which he allegedly exchanged for weapons that armed Sierra Leonean rebels who used them in brutal attacks against civilians. HRF's President and CEO Elisa Massimino explains in the Los Angeles Times why we need to pay attention to the supply chain for mass atrocities and how focusing on the enablers of these crimes can help prevent them in the future. Read the op-ed and listen to our podcast» Egyptian Activist Promoting Election Transparency through New Media 500 million. That's how many people are now on Facebook.  So it's no surprise that activists from around the world are adapting their strategies to the networked world. During a recent trip to Cairo, HRF's Neil Hicks interviewed Egyptian activist Esraa Abdel Fattah on how she is using social media and other online tools in support of democracy and government transparency in the lead-up to elections in Egypt. Like many netizens we work with, Esraa is enlisting new media technologies to organize a movement, risking retaliation by an often repressive Egyptian government. Listen to her describe how, and watch other video testimonials from netizens around the world» HRF Founding Executive Director Mike Posner on Colbert Report Mike Posner talked about democracy, human rights and labor (and which one is his favorite!) on the Colbert Report this month. Check it out!» Prop 8 Victory Reminds of Need for Progress Abroad In a victory for equal rights, California’s Proposition 8 was overturned last week, ending the ban on gay marriage in the Golden State. Ruling the proposition unconstitutional, Judge Vaughn Walker explained that the measure “enacts, without reason, a private moral view that same-sex couples are inferior to opposite-sex couples.” But around the world, gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people face legalized discrimination and threats far more severe than restrictions on marriage. Being gay is a crime in more than eighty countries. In Uganda, for example, existing law already criminalizes homosexuality, and a new bill would make “aggravated homosexuality” punishable by death. Human Rights First has been working with a broad coalition of partners to oppose this draconian legislation. In February, we invited the prominent Ugandan rights activist Julius Kaggwa to participate in our Human Rights Summit in Washington, DC. Julius explains what the proposed bill would mean for Ugandans in an exclusive interview to HRF»  HRF in the News Human Rights First is giving real-time updates from the Khadr trial on our blog, and we've been picked up by numerous media outlets including CNN, CBC News, and others. Check out our commentary in this round-up» Article of interest: Two prominent former judges, Eugene Sullivan and former FBI Director Louis Freeh, published an op-ed in the Washington Post supporting federal court trials for Guantánamo detainees... at Guantánamo. Read their argument»