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Groups denounce scandalous “clean bill of health” for DDT | ProtectAfrica
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Ensuring Life, Health and Prosperity for Future Generations. Groups denounce scandalous “clean bill of health” for DDT. March 4, 2008 at 5:57 am · Filed under ddt? Groups denounce scandalous “clean bill of health” for DDT, call for solutions to malaria that don’t put children at risk. (PANNA). 8220;It is criminal that WHO should make a politically-motivated announcement like this under the guise of protecting the health of children in Africa,”. Says Henry Diouf of Pesticide Action Network Africa. 8220;Ma...
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ICC | Kwot Kaka
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1-22 Years of Mayhem. Warrant of Arrest unsealed against five LRA Commanders. The Hague, 14 October 2005. Please, add your comments. The Prosecutor v. Joseph Kony, Vincent Otti, Raska Lukwiya, Okot Odhiambo. The warrants of arrest are the first to be issued by the International Criminal Court since its creation by an international treaty, the Rome Statute adopted on 17 July 1998. The aim of the Court is to help end impunity for the most serious crimes of concern to the international community. The specif...
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UPDF Attrocities | Kwot Kaka
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1-22 Years of Mayhem. Crimes Against Humanity by the UPDF (Ugandan army) In Gulu District. Please, add your comments. In 1989, 40 civilians were rounded up by NRA and shot dead in cold blood at Pakwera, Koch Goma. This killing provoked many youths and forced them to join the rebel war in the bush. In 1988, 30 innocent civilians were massacred by the NRA at Latoro, Purongo Sub-County, Nwoya, during the so-called “Operation Cordon and Search”. In 1989, NRA Commanders arrested James Owor, Paulo Odong Okul, ...
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Mato Oput | Kwot Kaka
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1-22 Years of Mayhem. Just how relevant is Mato Oput to the genocide in Acholi? No other assessment does clarity to this topic than one from Okello-Lucima. Please, add your comments. Ref: Mato Oput is a Cloak for Impunity in Northern Uganda. End of conflicts must ensure human rights. Second, war crimes, crime against humanity are committed against individuals as subjects of human rights discourses. [2]. Third, to have mato oput and supplemental state or ICC special courts that will try only alleged LRA p...
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LRA Attrocities | Kwot Kaka
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1-22 Years of Mayhem. Letter dated 24 April 2006 from the Permanent Representative of Uganda to the United Nations addressed to the President of the Security Council. Please, add your comments. In Patongo, in Pader district, it was the Gere Gere massacre, where the rebels dismembered their victims and cooked them, that caused a stampede of tens of thousands of people to the trading centre, turning it into one of the biggest camps in Northern Uganda. Apac district was hit later that year. According to the...
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DDT Threatens Uganda’s Organic Farms | ProtectAfrica
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Ensuring Life, Health and Prosperity for Future Generations. DDT Threatens Uganda’s Organic Farms. July 7, 2008 at 9:26 am · Filed under ddt in uganda. An organic cotton exporter told. That improper home spraying had contaminated “farm-tools, bicycles and produce.” A committee set up to assure compliance with WHO standards has apparently never met. Uganda (the only East African country using DDT to battle malaria) argues that DDT is 50% cheaper than a pyrethroid insecticide alternative. You are commentin...
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Nine Companies Sue Govt Over DDT | ProtectAfrica
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Ensuring Life, Health and Prosperity for Future Generations. Nine Companies Sue Govt Over DDT. May 22, 2008 at 8:19 am · Filed under ddt in uganda. And tagged: DDT Lango Uganda. By Paul Amoru Kampala. The government is embroiled in a court battle with nine companies from Lango over the use of Dichloro Diphenyl Trichloroethane (DDT), a chemical used to kill mosquitoes that transmit malaria in sub-Saharan Africa. The spraying was designated to start in the districts of Oyam, Apac and Lira. They further acc...
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risks | ProtectAfrica
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Ensuring Life, Health and Prosperity for Future Generations. DDT is known as an “ endocrine disruptor. 8221; — the chemical directly affects hormone regulation and reproductive health in animals and humans. The most alarming effect in males is feminization. The chemical affects hormonal balance in both men and women. Babies exposed to DDT while in the womb are at high risk from the effects of DDT toxicity. And indicate a potentially devastating effect. What is an endocrine disruptor? Mothers expose infan...
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Court halts DDT spray in northern Uganda | ProtectAfrica
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Ensuring Life, Health and Prosperity for Future Generations. Court halts DDT spray in northern Uganda. June 3, 2008 at 3:26 am · Filed under ddt in uganda. Good news for northern Ugandan citizens. 8220;The High Court in Kampala has ordered the Ministry of Health to suspend the spraying of DDT until there is a ruling on a suit that seeks to stop the spraying of the chemical in northern Uganda. The article promotes the government’s preposterous view that DDT is not a toxic substance. Mr MacDusman Kabega, w...
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Study links testicular cancer to DDT | ProtectAfrica
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Ensuring Life, Health and Prosperity for Future Generations. Study links testicular cancer to DDT. May 7, 2008 at 6:04 pm · Filed under risks. May 6, 2008 Kakaire Kirunda (Monitor) Kampala. As the use of DDT to fight mosquitoes spreading Malaria in Uganda begins to take shape, it is emerging that men born to mothers exposed to lingering amounts of the pesticide might have an increased risk of getting testicular cancer. In the early years of World War II, DDT was used with great effect to control mosquito...
