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	<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 13:11:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>&#8220;Meeting the Challenge: Protecting Civilians through the Convention on Cluster Munitions&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://uganda-survivors.org/archives/98</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2011 09:47:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This book is the culmination of a decade of research by Human Rights  Watch. It details the humanitarian toll of cluster munitions, analyzes  the international process that resulted in the treaty successfully  banning them, and presents the steps that nations that have signed the  convention should take to fulfill its promise. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;As if We Weren&#8217;t Human: Discrimination and Violence against Women with Disabilities in Northern Uganda&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://uganda-survivors.org/archives/94</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2011 09:42:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This 73-page report by Human Rights Watch describes frequent abuse and discrimination by  strangers, neighbors, and even family members against women and girls  with disabilities in Northern Uganda. Women interviewed for the report said  they were not able to get basic provisions such as food, clothing, and  shelter in camps for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IWPR: Government pledging to help victims, often shunned by friends, families and employers</title>
		<link>http://uganda-survivors.org/archives/74</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:18:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Gloria Laker Aciro in Gulu
20 November 2008 (AR No. 193)
Irene Laker said she’d had a restless night because her village near Gulu had just been attacked by members of the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army, LRA.
In the morning, she walked out the back of her house. “As I moved, [there was] a big bang. I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Monitor: Gulu Landmine Survivors Find Fresh Spring in Their Step</title>
		<link>http://uganda-survivors.org/archives/36</link>
		<comments>http://uganda-survivors.org/archives/36#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:29:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Daily Monitor, 28 October 2008
By Joseph Mazige
View original story here.
It is a little over two years since the guns fell silent in northern Uganda following the start of peace talks between the government and the Lord&#8217;s Resistance Army (LRA) rebels in the Southern Sudan capital, Juba. But the scars are still fresh for many [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IRIN News: Landmine victims struggle to reintegrate in Uganda</title>
		<link>http://uganda-survivors.org/archives/71</link>
		<comments>http://uganda-survivors.org/archives/71#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2008 14:09:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[GULU, 5 September 2008 (IRIN) - The return of peace to northern Uganda has prompted many formerly displaced people to return home, but resettling into the villages has proved tough for landmine survivors. 
&#8220;I never imagined that I would become disabled until I was hit by a mine planted by LRA [Lord's Resistance Army] rebels in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IRIN News: Landmine survivors welcome ban on cluster bombs</title>
		<link>http://uganda-survivors.org/archives/41</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:33:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[IRIN News, 4 June 2008
View the original story here.
Reuters and AlertNet are not responsible for the content of this article or for any external internet sites. The views expressed are the author&#8217;s alone.
Landmine survivors and campaigners in Uganda have welcomed the approval of a new comprehensive treaty to ban cluster bombs.
&#8220;As people who have been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NTV: Campaigners call for ban on cluster bombs, Uganda yet to destroy its stockpiles</title>
		<link>http://uganda-survivors.org/archives/44</link>
		<comments>http://uganda-survivors.org/archives/44#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 14:58:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ULSA</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Kampala, NTV Uganda
By Rosebell KAGUMIRE
19 May 2008
Civil society representatives and cluster bomb survivors from around the world have called on governments to support a comprehensive ban on cluster bombs.
&#8220;We are confident that governments will make the right decision and adopt a ban with no exceptions, no loopholes and no delays. This is what is needed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>VOA News: Ugandan Landmine Survivor Helps Others Injured by the Weapons</title>
		<link>http://uganda-survivors.org/archives/66</link>
		<comments>http://uganda-survivors.org/archives/66#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2005 13:55:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Joe De Capua
30 November 2005
In Zagreb, Croatia, the sixth meeting of states party to the international landmine treaty continues. The treaty was signed in 1997 to ban the use, acquisition, production, transfer and stockpiling of landmines.
While much progress has been made, each year it’s estimated between 15 and 20 thousand people are killed or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IRIN News: Laying Landmines to Rest? Humanitarian Mine Action</title>
		<link>http://uganda-survivors.org/archives/69</link>
		<comments>http://uganda-survivors.org/archives/69#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Nov 2004 14:02:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[UGANDA: Interview with Margaret Arach Orech, Ugandan landmine survivor
Margaret Arach Orech is a single mother with five children. She lost her right leg when a bus she was travelling on hit a landmine. In the immediate aftermath, she was robbed and only just managed to crawl away from the bus before the fuel tank exploded. [...]]]></description>
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