Conflict & Justice
GlobalPost
July 12, 2017
Uganda has been celebrated in recent years for its generosity toward those fleeing violence, especially South Sudanese refugees. But state-sponsored discrimination and social intolerance have forced many gay, lesbian and transgender Ugandans to seek asylum outside the country.
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Health & Medicine
Part IV: The Infectious Connection
PRI's The World
December 06, 2012
Cancer can be triggered by infectious diseases, especially in impoverished parts of the world. Scientists in the US and Africa are working to unravel how viruses and bacteria cause malignancies.
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Conflict & Justice
A gay rights activist from Uganda gets the green light for political asylum
PRI's The World
September 17, 2014
Ugandan gay rights activist John Abdallah Wambere faced death threats after he was outed in his own country. Now the US has granted him political asylum, and he's celebrating — but still dreaming of walking safely with his daughter in the streets of his hometown.
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Health & Medicine
A self-proclaimed 'vaginal ecologist' is determined to halt the transmission of HIV to women
Science Friday
September 03, 2015
Sharon Hillier didn't start out wanting to be the voice of, well, the vagina. But when she discovered just how off-base men who studied women's reproductive issues were, she felt she had to do something.
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Conflict & Justice
The producers of Kony 2012 say they've learned their lesson, but critics aren't so sure
PRI's The World
April 16, 2014
Kony 2012 captured millions of eyeballs and about as much controversy. Two years on, the organization behind the video is still operating and still focused on capturing Joseph Kony — but the group's leaders say they've learned a lot from their experience with their viral video.
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Science, Tech & Environment
How Washington ranchers are learning to cope with wolves, with lessons from Uganda
PRI's The World
February 24, 2017
Would you buy wolf-friendly meat? That's one idea Carol Bogezi has to help cattle ranchers in Washington state learn to live with wolves.
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Conflict & Justice
Uganda gay rights activists try again to hold a pride event — again, police intervene
GlobalPost
September 27, 2016
At Uganda's gay pride event on Saturday, held at a private location, police again intervened to shut down the festivities.
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Science, Tech & Environment
Can we pay people to save the rainforests?
Science Friday
August 06, 2017
Instead of trying to ban people in developing nations from clearing trees on their land, maybe a better option is to pay them to leave the trees standing.
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Conflict & Justice
Uganda's abducted kids try to get their lives back to normal
PRI's The World
May 23, 2017
During Uganda's armed conflict, tens of thousands of children were abducted by the Lord's Resistance Army. Now they are adults, and many of them have returned. But after spending formative years in the wilderness — can they fully come back?
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Conflict & Justice
Uganda's other refugee crisis
GlobalPost
July 12, 2017
Uganda has been celebrated in recent years for its generosity toward those fleeing violence, especially South Sudanese refugees. But state-sponsored discrimination and social intolerance have forced many gay, lesbian and transgender Ugandans to seek asylum outside the country.
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Conflict & Justice
How do you judge a child soldier?
PRI's The World
August 04, 2017
More than 30,000 children were kidnapped during Uganda's civil war, and many were forced to become child soldiers. Today, the country grapples with a complicated question: how to judge their atrocities.