Www.google.nl/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=6&ved=0CF8QFjAF&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nu.nl%2Fbinnenland%2F2765344%2Fuganda-bang-toeristen-wegblijven.html&ei=d2DLT_utCK-a1AXo9qm6AQ&usg=AFQjCNFqA0OTMbyKVQUoht7096YuKurDJA&sig2=pkEA1AxADiRfAGfiv7iPzw. Arresteer Joseph Kony met respect voor mensenrechten. De arrestatie van Joseph Kony, de prominente leider van het Verzetsleger van de Heer (Lord Resistance Army, LRA), moet met respect voor de internationaal geldende mensenrechtenstandaarden worden uitgevoerd.
Mensenrechten moeten worden gerespecteerd bij pogingen om Joseph Kony te arresteren. Uganda. April 20th Cover The Night. Kony 2012: Invisible Children prepares Cover the Night stunt amid criticism. "This Invisible Children campaign hurts.
It's offensive," says Victor Ochen, founder and director of the African Youth Initiative Network (Ayinet) that works to rehabilitate victims of violence perpetrated by Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army (LRA). "The people who have suffered at the hands of Kony don't want to promote him or make him famous. They want to rebuild their lives. " As supporters of Invisible Children's campaign prepared for the its Cover the Night stunt on Friday night – putting up wanted posters in cities across the US and elsewhere – the organisation faced more criticism from LRA victims in northern Uganda for oversimplifying the complex history of conflict in the region, for failing to clearly state that the LRA are no longer a threat there and for advocating a military solution to the problem.
"This is a day when communities are trying to heal broken hearts, but Invisible Children want to plaster Kony's face everywhere," he continued. Kony 2012 - Cover The Night - Rotterdam. Can "Cover the Night" save KONY 2012 on April 20? Gayle Falkenthal SAN DIEGO – April 19, 2012 – With no fanfare, “KONY 2012: Part II – Beyond Famous” was posted to YouTube on Wednesday, April 4 by the San Diego-based nonprofit organization Invisible Children.
Now the real test comes two weeks later with Invisible Children’s “Cover the Night” event scheduled for Friday, April 20. The 20 Least Effective KONY "Cover The Night" Signs. Vannacht is Kony 2012 Cover The Night ook in Amsterdam. Kony 2012 Day of Action: Will Protests 'Cover the Night' or Fizzle? (Video) "Cover the Night" project aims to put up posters, stickers and signs of the wanted Lord's Resistance Army leader "in every city, on every block" around the world It's easier to watch and forward a video than it is to leave your house, and the people behind the Kony 2012 campaign are about to find out whether they can transform a viral sensation into real-world action.
What Made Kony 2012 Viral. Kony 2012, made by Invisible Children, Inc. to promote its “Stop Kony” efforts, took a week to get more than 82 million views on YouTube only, making it the most viral video in history so far.
What’s behind its virality and what can CMOs learn from it? Celebrities The mini-documentary encourages its viewers to tweet culture-makers and policymakers so that they themselves tweet about Kony 2012 and talk about it in the media. Culture-makers who have already responded include Angelina Jolie, Oprah, Kim Kardashian, and Justin Bieber. The amount of followers they have, made the 30 minute documentary the most viral video in history. Emotion Just because celebrities are told to tweet about something, doesn’t mean they will do so without actually looking at the video. Despite the criticism surrounding Invisible Children and oversimplification of the video’s message, the celebrities tweeted about Kony 2012 because it touched their emotional buttons. An expert’s response to KONY 2012 « alyabroad. Can Uganda tourism survive 'Kony 2012'?
"It's taken nasty dictatorships and a brutal civil war to keep Uganda off the tourist radar, but stability is returning and it won't be long before visitors come flocking back.
" This 2006 file photo shows Joseph Kony, leader of the Lord's Resistance Army, during a meeting with a delegation of 160 officials and lawmakers from northern Uganda and representatives of non-governmental organizations in Congo near the Sudan border. An activist group based in Southern California is getting worldwide attention for a video that documents wartime atrocities in Africa. So wrote guidebook publisher Lonely Planet when it named the Central African nation - known for mountain gorillas, spectacular scenery and one of the continent's safest capital cities - its top travel destination for 2012. Maybe not. But as the 30-minute film's popularity explodes, so have critcisms about inacuracy and oversimplification. Steve Bramucci: Why The "Kony 2012" Campaign Should Make Travelers Uncomfortable.
In the past few days, "Kony 2012" has blown up the internet.
If you aren't familiar with the campaign, check in on Facebook or Twitter. Your friends are talking about it right this second. "Kony 2012" is part of Invisible Children's ongoing efforts to stop rebel violence in Northern Uganda and Southern Sudan and bring war criminal Joseph Kony to justice. Kony 2012 video-Misleading and Killing Tourism! I just returned from in the Northern Part of Uganda on Safari with a group of Canadian Visitors.we travelled through Kaabong, Kitgum, to Gulu district and connecting to Murchison falls National Park. I get back to my small room in Kampala with great anxiety of watching the campaign by this American Man called I sit down on my Computer to watch the most talked about film in the world today, I had got worried that there were Probably fresh up-risings of the infamous-now famous in the North with new attacks in an area that i had just left only days.
The welcoming text on the screen and the rolling globe will show to you that this is a serious matter that needs urgent attention. Uganda worried Kony film will hurt tourism. Tourism Minister Ephraim Kamuntu told reporters that the country's embassies have been instructed to repair any "damage" to Uganda's reputation abroad caused by the Kony 2012 film.
"Kony has been out of Uganda for years. The reaction we get from people outside is that he is still in Uganda and this is negative. Tourists are likely to fear that misinterpretation and cancel their plans. The film is put out of context," Kamuntu told a press briefing. The film, made by the US-based group Invisible Children, campaigns for stopping Kony, who waged a brutal war in the north of Uganda for more than two decades. Op 3 - Kony 2012 'slecht voor toerisme' De Nederlandse Publieke Omroep maakt gebruik van cookies.
We maken een onderscheid tussen functionele cookies en cookies voor het beheer van webstatistieken, advertenties en social media. 'Waar Kony was, zijn nu de crisistoeristen' - opinie. OPINIE - Edith Tulp − 13/03/12, 10:31.
Wat doet de hype Kony 2012 met het toerisme van Oeganda? Uganda: More than Kony 2012. Uganda: "Kony 2012" hurting tourism CCTV News. James Marshall Crotty: Africa to Kony 2012: Stop Treating Us Like Victims. As I recently noted in my controversial Forbes post, "Kony 2012 Filmmaker, Jason Russell, Becomes The Spectacle, Lessons In Atrocity Tourism," the genius of Atrocity Tourism is that it allows guilty westerners to safely shower compassion on faraway nonwhite victims.
In this regard, Kony 2012 is straight outta Stuff White People Like, with a healthy dash of Brüno. In that hilarious Sacha Baron Cohen mockumentary, Bruno finds two gullible L.A. flacks, Nicole and Suzanne DeFosset, who specialize in finding causes for celebrities. Subsequent to his meeting with Nicole and Suzanne, Cohen, via Bruno, sticks the shiv in atrocity showboaters by adopting a black African baby he calls "O.J. " in exchange for a U2 Product Red iPod. As with most irony directed at Hollywood, and Atrocity Tourists in particular, Cohen's scathing indictment was lost on its target.
Undaunted, Atrocity Tourist (AT) celebrities continue to spawn imitative behavior in AT celebrity wannabes. Mr. How short our memories are. Reinventing Peace. Put yourself in Joseph Kony’s shoes: imagine you are a fugitive leader of a rebel band in the forests of central Africa, travelling on foot and avoiding encounter with any organized military force. You have spurned peace talks and bribes because the only existence you know is surviving off the land and its fearful people. Every high profile offensive by the armies of three neighboring countries, or international special forces, that fails to capture or kill you, adds to your mystique. Uganda, After ‘Kony 2012,’ Tries to Emphasize the Positive.
Uganda Attempts to Counter Image Presented by 'Kony 2012' Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi of Uganda sought to turn the new attention from a viral video into increased tourism. He has posted a long video to YouTube and sent Twitter messages to celebrities, but so far Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi of Uganda has yet to match the explosive virality of the original campaign against the wanted warlord Joseph Kony. Perhaps that was not the point. Mr. Mbabazi, who once directed forces against Mr. Kony as the head of the country’s defense ministry, called the original viral video “slick” and, as if in deliberate contrast, his own presentation, posted over the weekend, lacked the flash and narrative spark of the work by Invisible Children. Seated and staring at the camera in one long take, Mr.
“Only a couple of months ago, Lonely Planet described Uganda as the best country in the world to visit in 2012,” Mr. The Lonely Planet did list Uganda first among an eclectic mix of places to visit this year, ahead of Myanmar and Ukraine. Mr. Uganda launches video to counter 'Kony 2012' - Africa. Amama Mbabazi, the Ugandan prime minister, has launched an online response to a video by a California-based non-profit organisation calling for the arrest of Joseph Kony, leader of the Lord's Resistance Army. The response, launched on Saturday and posted on YouTube, seeks to correct the "false impression" that Uganda is in conflict. In the eight-minute video, and in a flurry of messages posted on the micro-blogging site Twitter, Mbabazi invited 20 celebrities, including Angelina Jolie, George Clooney, Justin Bieber, Lady Gaga and Rihanna.
Joseph Kony 2012: growing outrage in Uganda over film. Uganda verdeeld over 'Kony 2012' Uganda responds to Kony 2012 video with own video. » Blog Archive » Ugandan War Reporter Speaks Out on Kony 2012. World News: Kony 2012: African Union ramps up hunt for Uganda rebel leader in wake of viral video. ENTEBBE, UGANDA—The African Union will send 5,000 soldiers to join the hunt for rebel leader Joseph Kony in a new military mission officials say is necessary to remove the Lord’s Resistance Army from Central Africa’s vast jungle. The mission is to be launched in South Sudan on Saturday and will last until Kony is caught, United Nations and African Union officials said at a news conference in Uganda.
“We need to stop Kony with hardware, with military hardware in this case,” said Francisco Madeira, the African Union’s special envoy on the LRA. “We are on a mission to stop him.” The hunt for Kony has primarily been carried out by troops from Uganda, who received a boost last year when President Barack Obama deployed 100 U.S. forces to help regional governments in the mission. American soldiers are now based in Uganda, Central African Republic, South Sudan, and Congo. The LRA is responsible for 2,600 civilian deaths since 2008, according to the African Union. Kony 2012 in numbers. Invisible Childrentoday launch a new intiative in their crusade against Ugandan rebel leader Joseph Kony and the Lord's Resistance Army. Should the cause's shorthand title - Kony 2012 - have passed you by, the premise is simple.
San Diego-based Invisible Children hope their glossy online, often controversial, crusade will make Kony a household name and bring him to justice. To date, they have almost 3.6m global pledges of support. But their latest push for the world's attention, Cover the Night, has a great deal to live up to, statistically-speaking. Invisible Children's first video was the speediest ever to reach 100 million views - which it achieved within six days of its March 5 release.
Campaign monitors Visible Measures say that thus far the 30-minute video has garnered a total of 184m views, 2400 clips and 1.2m comments. Its resounding success was down in part to a sprinkling of celeb dust. But after the high comes the low - an online backlash and that difficult second video. Kony 2012 in numbers. Lord's Resistance Army. The Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), also known as the Lord's Resistance Movement, is a militant movement, which is described by some as a new religious movement or a cult which operated in northern Uganda and South Sudan. Since 2005 there have been claims that the group has entered the Democratic Republic of Congo, but in 2007 it was reported that they were in Central African Republic.[6] The LRA has been accused of widespread human rights violations, including murder, abduction, mutilation, child-sex slavery, and forcing children to participate in hostilities.[7][8] The LRA was initially formed to resist the Uganda People's Defence Force (UPDF), called the National Resistance Army (NRA) before it took control of the country.
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