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As with other social movements, students have led the way. Across the United States, student leaders are stirring up interest on campuses, collecting pages of signatures, and petitioning their administrators and trustees to enact policies committing endowments and procurement plans to “conflict-free” investments and purchases. Now, city councils in Pittsburgh and St. Petersburg are setting the pace among U.S. cities to commit to ensuring that public funds are not perpetuating the conflict in eastern Congo.
Enough Project partners A Thousand Sisters and Jewish World Watch have launched a "virtual march" to build momentum behind the call-out for the Obama administration to appoint a special envoy for Africa's Great Lakes region. In this post from A Thousand Sisters, founder Lisa Shannon explains the job of a special envoy and discussion why appointing one is an important step toward stabilizing the Great Lakes region.
For 60 years now, the U.N. refugee agency, UNHCR, has provided life-saving services to some of the world’s most vulnerable populations. To mark the anniversary, U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres addressed an audience at the Brookings Institution to discuss the new challenges and necessary steps to address the changing nature of displacement today.
In the wake of the jaw-dropping statistics from the new study of sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Enough Project and 76 other NGOs have written to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to urge much greater engagement with the crisis in Congo, beginning with the appointment of a special envoy for the Great Lakes region. The letter was signed by 55 Congolese groups and 22 U.S. and international NGOs, including our friends at the Eastern Congo Initiative, V-Day, and Human Rights Watch, to name just a few.
When the State Department’s Donald Yamamoto noted recently that the Obama administration was only taking the appointment of a special representative for Africa’s Great Lakes region “under advisement,” during testimony for the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, it raised concerns among not just a couple of members of Congress. Sixteen U.S. senators sent a letter to President Obama this week urging him to appoint a special representative, to “make an important statement that [violence in eastern Congo and ongoing LRA atrocities] are a high priority for your Administration.”
