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April is Genocide Awareness and Prevention Month

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April is Genocide Awareness and Prevention Month

Posted by Emily Brandon on April 1, 2014

April is Genocide Awareness and Prevention Month

April is designated as Genocide Awareness and Prevention Month each year, as it marks important anniversaries for multiple acts of genocide in the 20th century. Throughout the month, individuals and organizations join together to commemorate and honor victims and survivors, educate the public about past and contemporary genocides, and advocate for prevention against future mass atrocities. Together, we seek to empower and amplify voices from across the world that have in one way or another been affected by past genocides or have taken up the challenge to combat mass atrocities in the future.

To support activists as they take action in their communities this April, the Enough Project has teamed up with partner organizations i-ACT, Jewish World Watch, STAND, and others to create a Genocide Awareness and Prevention Month Toolkit. In addition to tips on planning events and utilizing media to raise awareness, the toolkit includes information on the ongoing conflicts in Burma, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, South Sudan, Sudan, and Syria.

Check out the toolkit for tips and guidelines, but here are just a few of the actions activists can take this April:

 

Download the Genocide Awareness and Prevention Month Toolkit to learn how you can sponsor or support advocacy and remembrance activities in your community and globally this April.

 

Special thanks to partner organizations supporting the 2014 Genocide Awareness and Prevention Month Toolkit:
Americans for Informed Democracy
Ask Big Questions
The Auschwitz Institute for Peace and Reconciliation
Carl Wilkens Fellowship
Conflict-Free Campus Initiative
Darfur Dream Team Sister Schools Program
Hillel International
i-ACT
Investors Against Genocide
Enough Project
Jewish World Watch
STAND
United To End Genocide
U.S. Campaign for Burma
Voices for Sudan