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  1. Ugandan women and children collect water from a hole dug in a dry riverbed at Kaabong village, Karamoja region, in this file picture. REUTERS/Daniel Wallis

    Uganda orchard project seeks to improve women's health

    02 May 2012 05:00 BST | Comments (1)

    Safe World for Women | Solutions for a hungry world

    Some years there is no rain; women and men dig the sand in the riverbed for water for the orchard

  2. Picture shows the panel at London's Frontline Club on April 4, 2012. ALERTNET/Julie Mollins

    Not enough focus on child soldiers’ lives in "Kony 2012" -War Child

    05 April 2012 11:40 BST | Comments (1)

    julie-mollins | TechnoTalk

    The focus of "Kony 2012" about warlord Joseph Kony should have been on helping child victims, Amanda Weisbaum says

  3. Sandra is no longer a sex worker

    08 March 2012 09:00 GMT | Comments (0)

    AlertNet Contributor | The Word on Women

    On International Women's Day, we recognize that it is not civil society or governments who are on the front lines in the ...

  4. This 2006 image taken from Reuters TV shows the LRA's Joseph Kony. REUTERS/Reuters TV

    Uganda war criminal Kony tops Twitter’s most searched

    07 March 2012 18:28 GMT | Comments (0)

    Samuel Nota | AlertNet News Blog

    Video on child soldiers goes viral, bringing new attention to an old problem

  5. People walk at the Coo-Pe refugee camp in Gulu, Uganda, in this file picture. February 5, 2008. REUTERS/Tobias Schwarz

    When property is a matter of life and death

    05 March 2012 18:53 GMT | Comments (0)

    Jesse Rudy | International Women's Day 2012

    Property grabbing may not be a “familiar” crime in the West – but it is devastatingly common in Africa, writes Jesse Rudy

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