Joseph
Kony is not known to a lot of people in our society. Still, he is probably one
of the most evil people living on this planet. He is the rebel leader of the
so-called Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) in Northern Uganda and sees
himself as a messiah with supernatural power. He founded this resistance group
in 1987 as a protest against the government in Uganda, which was then
led by a rebel leader from the south, Yoweri Museveni, who is still in power
today. When looking at the history of Uganda, it is a
crucial fact to know that the north and the south of the country fought each
other ever since Uganda’s independence
in the 1950s.
UNSA has a new board: From today on 9 new faces will take UNSA to the next level
Wednesday, 20 May 2009
For a week students from
Maastricht
University had the opportunity to apply for one of the positions on the board. For some days only a few applied and for a while we doubted our popularity. However, as the deadline approached more applications were sent in and on Monday morning we had over 20 ambitious students waiting to be interviewed. After having read all the CV’s and motivation letters we started with the first bunch of interviews on Monday afternoon. Though a year before that we had all sat on that side of the table, we could not hide our own excitement and anxiety. While trying to keep track of time we stumbled with questions and made an attempt to extract as much information as possible from the interviewees. One of the frequently asked questions “how would you improve UNSA?” generated answers which made many of us say to oneself “why did we never think about that?”
Millennium Development Goal 3: Promote Gender Equality and empower Women
Saturday, 18 April 2009
By Maike Metzen
The target of the third Millennium Development Goal (MDG) is to eliminate gender disparity in primary
and secondary education, preferably by 2005, and in all levels of education no
later than 2015.
It was only last year that Eudy Simelane, a famous female South African
soccer-player, was rudely raped and afterwards killed because of her
homosexuality. This was a first ‘event’ which drew initial attention to the
aggressive feelings towards homosexuality in the country.
