#lra

[la5pampy]

Tw: blood (just a bit)

HAPPY ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY! :D to the wondeful fic by @bubbiethesaur

I cannot recommend this fic enought, it’s so well written and has got me in a choke hold (Lra sun my beloved<33)

(Ok now I’m sprinting to the new chap)

[bubbiethesaur]

Hiii Bubbie ! Just wanted to say that you're gonna need to pay my therapy with that chapter- hehe no fr that was an amazing chapter i loved it so much , so many emotions came all at once that was really shocking hehe. I LOVE YOUR WRITING SO SO MUCH YOURE VERY TALENTED <3

MARGOOOO!!! Ahhhh thank you so much!

I’m so glad you liked the chapter! The end still gets my heart racing when I reread it.

[turtle12sposts]

I’m nice, you be also.

[cactusdesol]

Feliz, feliz ❤️‍🔥 #wattpadmexico #wattpad #wattpader #wattpadespañol #characters #personajes #dibujodigital #animacion #dibujo #novelajuvenil #newadult #libros #librosrecomendados #caos #LRA https://www.instagram.com/p/Ck8gY5UOCoe/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[geezliberia]

LRA Retires 15 Employees With Honor.

LRA Retires 15 Employees With Honor.

The Liberia Revenue Authority (LRA) has retired 15 employees after their long years of services, dedication and commitment. The retirees were decorated with special honors and given financial packages as a mark of appreciation for their outstanding contributions to revenue collection for Liberia.  The 15-retired employees, among others, worked in the Bureau of Revenue and Customs of the…

[positivedevelopment]

Monthly Roundup - July 2022

In July, the UN Security Council held its open debate on children and armed conflict (CAAC), under Brazil’s presidency. The Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict (SRSG-CAAC) presented the Secretary-General’s (SG) 2022 annual report on CAAC (forthcoming), covering the period from January 1 to December 31, 2021.

Read UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell's remarks at the United Nations Security Council Open Debate on Children and Armed Conflict HERE

JULY 2022 SPECIAL UPDATE – OPEN DEBATE ON CHILDREN AND ARMED CONFLICT

In view of the open debate, Watchlist recommends that the Security Council and other UN Member States:

Call for increased compliance with international humanitarian, human rights, and refugee law and child protection norms, and strengthen accountability for all grave violations against children;

Strengthen effective use of existing mechanisms and tools to monitor, report, and respond to grave violations; and

Prioritize the protection of the rights and well-being of children in armed conflict.

Statistics Should Never Overshadow the Individual Suffering of Children in Armed Conflict, “We Must Redouble Efforts to End Grave Violations”

“There is no word strong enough to describe the horrific conditions that children in armed conflict have endured. Those who survived will be affected for life with deep physical and emotional scars. But we must not let these numbers discourage our efforts. They should serve as an impetus to reinforce our determination to end and prevent grave violations against children. This report is a call to action to intensify our work to better protect children in armed conflict and ensure that they are given a real chance to recover and thrive,” said the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, Virginia Gamba."

FLASH ACTION || LARGEST LRA DEMOBILIZATION IN 20 YEARS

"In April, two LRA splinter groups in eastern CAR  entered into demobilization negotiations with authorities. Both groups began handing over some of their weapons as a first step toward the full disarmament of their groups. This means that up to 250 children, women, and men in these groups could be coming out of the LRA very soon. This would be the largest LRA demobilization since Invisible Children was founded. And it is in large part thanks to the bravery of local community groups, trained by Invisible Children, that have led to this moment."

Join our Flash Action and help us raise $10,000 to continue the ongoing negotiations and make sure every LRA returnee has the support they need to get home to their families.

Drawings from the 2022 Annual Meeting for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action

During the 2022 Annual Meeting, the Alliance had a team of virtual artists capturing all the highlights and most memorable moments from each session in the meeting.

You can also re-watch all the sessions HERE in English.

Solidarity without Borders: Friendship, the Arts, and Social Movements

"How might engaging in the act of friendship, initiating it, cultivating it, and maintaining it, lead to solidarity within a social movement? And does this solidarity lead to future nonviolent collective action? Can friendship be a tool for human rights activists who want to build long-term resilience for a social movement? In order to think through these questions, this essay draws upon ethnographic work with Indonesian artists and social and environmental justice activists who engage with local and global communities. Specifically, the work of art collective Taring Padi is used to illustrate the ways in which art can be used to create new friendships and sustain them with the goal of building long-term connection and transcending violence."

elephants on the move: 250 elephants to be translocated in Malawi

"The translocation will take place between 27th June and 29th July, 2022 as part of a national conservation initiative to maintain healthy habitats in Malawi’s national parks, establish viable elephant populations, and ensure the prosperity of local communities living around the parks."

This important initiative is being made possible by the generous support of the Elephant Cooperation, with a leadership gift and the generous support of various philanthropic funders. Elephant Cooperation is a non-profit devoted to raising awareness of the African Elephant crisis and supporting existing organizations who embrace our cause.

Museums exempt as ivory trade ban comes into force

"The UK's new ivory ban has made it illegal to deal in items containing or made of elephant ivory unless the items qualify for one of five listed exemptions, including an exemption for Accredited museums."

[justydrawz]

Grrr Long road ahead art. First scene that had me pause, and idek what's going on in it. I can't tell if it was Sun being flustered or reliving trauma, or foreshadowing? Idk but it just was so disturbing to me (the hands are not in relation to the moment, they are a part of how I draw LRA Sun B] depending on how the story goes I may stop drawing him like that)

Peach scene I believe in chapter 5

FIC MADE BY @bubbiethesaur ONLY SUN AND MOON FIC I CAN RECOMMEND 😭 IT'S SO GOOD DAWG

[venomous-qwille]

Long Road Ahead eclipse in the weekly magma.

If you haven't read @bubbiethesaur's fic GO DO IT IT'S SO FREAKING GOOD.

[celpii]

@bubbiethesaur your fic, Long Road Ahead, has not left my brain since I first read it! Words cannot describe how good it is!!

[hookeorcrook]

“Blood will have blood.”

For @breathlesshunt of their character Etienne (and Tam Lin) :^) as part of an RP secret santa

(please do not repost or use as your own. this is a gift!)

[simstationdance]

Crazy, I'm crazy for feeling so lonely I'm crazy, crazy for feeling so blue I knew you'd love me as long as you wanted And then someday, you'd leave me for somebody new...

Vikram & Madhuri Loner, circa 1979

[bubbiethesaur]

my hand slipped :3

[fill-la-pill]

ryuko and mako/ ryako and lamra

[nascentwaves]

Kashtira cards already read like custom cards, so I probably won't touch those. They don't need anymore crazy staying power.

[ablackwomansurvivingrape]

The nun who brings hope to one of the world's most dangerous places for women

There are few places on earth more dangerous for women than the remote, unstable north-east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. But amid the hazards Sister Angelique​ Namaika​ is helping to transform the lives of young women subjected to abduction, rape and sexual slavery.

Her refuge, the Maison de la Femme (House of Women), is assisting more than 2000 women and girls who have been forced from their homes and abused, mainly by the notorious Lord's Resistance Army (LRA).

Many of them have been held captive and forced to become the "bush wives" of rebel fighters.

"The DRC is experiencing a lot of insecurity," said Sister Angelique​, in Australia as a guest of UNHCR last week.

"Women are often brutalised and experience a lot of indignity because of the atrocities committed. Given the importance of the place of women we are working hard to return some dignity to them so they can find their place in the world again."

Sister Angelique​, a 47-year-old Roman Catholic nun, received the 2013 Nansen Refugee Award — an international human rights prize awarded by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Australia for UNHCR, which supports Sister Angelique's​ work in the DRC, said her "courage and achievements are extraordinary in a country widely regarded as the most dangerous place in the world to be a woman".

At the refuge women are taught skills that allow them to earn an income. The project has a bakery, a collective farm, sewing workshops and literacy classes that enable women to recover their self-esteem and gain training needed to support themselves and their children.

"When a woman is in front of a sewing machine, she has to pay attention to the work she is doing and she forgets her suffering," Sister Angelique​ said.

"Otherwise she would sit there and keep on thinking about what happened to her. But when she is involved in something like this she has others around her and she can share. She knows she is not alone."

Women are often ostracised from their home communities after they escape or are abandoned by their captors. "When young women come out of that environment they don't feel accepted, they feel remote and that they are useless," said Sister Angelique​. "The aim of our activities is to help them recover from the trauma."

Sister Angelique​ is based in the town of Dungu​ in north-eastern DRC, an area ravaged by Lord's Resistance Army violence. The LRA first emerged in northern Uganda in 1986 under the leadership of Joseph Kony but the rebels now operate in at least three other African nations including DRC. Sister Angelique​ herself was forced to hide in the bush for a month following an LRA attack.

"We were very afraid," she said. "It was quite traumatic but it helped me understand what other women are experiencing."

Sister Angelique​ says that with proper support, the abused women she works with are able to rebuild their lives.

She tells the story of Jillian, an orphan who was abducted by the LRA at the age of 13 and "given" to a rebel leader. She had two children in the bush during her five years in captivity before being abandoned when the rebel leader died.

Local villagers found Jillian and her children sheltering under a tarpaulin in the bush and took them to Sister Angelique's​ refuge. "I took her on board and taught her how to make pastry and now she is earning an income from that," said Sister Angelique​. "And then she got married and she now has a third child."

Sister Angelique​ said she "gets courage" from the women she works with. "Despite the high level of insecurity they want to keep going and they want to learn things," she said.

[blazevillains]

have you missed me balzie???

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