STRATEGY PAPER: Ending the World’s Deadliest War In Eastern Congo
The world’s deadliest war and most pronounced use of rape as a weapon continue to rage in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. The Enough Project’s latest report on eastern Congo, by Co-founder John Prendergast and Congo-based analyst Noel Atama, argues that this multi-layered and immensely complex conflict can end only when the international community abandons its piecemeal approach to conflict management and adopts a new approach that focuses on five basic tasks ...
STRATEGY PAPER: Chad’s Domestic Crisis Is the Achilles Heel For Peacemaking in Darfur
While the international community remains seized with the crisis in Sudan, the inadequacies of conflict resolution efforts in Chad – host to 250,000 Darfuri refugees – continues to negatively impact peacekeeping efforts, says a strategy paper from the Enough Project at the Center for American Progress ...
Harlem School Kids Get Lesson in Service from Ambassador Rice
In a project focused on the Democratic Republic of the Congo, U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice paid a visit to the Harlem Children's Zone to introduce students to the work of the United Nations. "Young people in this country have a great generosity and a great capacity - even when they have tough times themselves - to understand and be interested in the circumstances of kids in other parts of the world," Ambassador Rice told the 120 students at the charter school famous for turning out high-achieving students from low-income, minority families. As this CNN report by U.N. correspondent Richard Roth ...
Prendergast on PBS, Talks About Activist Movement
Watch Foreign Exchange with Daljit Dhaliwal - Episode 520 in News | View More Free Videos Online at Veoh.com Enough's co-Founder John Prendergast has a wide-ranging discussion with host Daljit Dhaliwal on the PBS international affairs program Foreign Exchange this weekend. He talks about the Obama administration's interest in engaging with activists in the Darfur movement, but also touches on the need for the president to articulate a definitive Sudan policy and move quickly to begin implementing it with the help of international partners. Prendergast discusses hoped-for changes in Uganda that U.S. activists will push for during the upcoming June ...
CNN Looks at Congo’s Conflict Minerals
Embedded video from CNN Video Don’t miss this new CNN piece about Congo’s conflict minerals trade. Enough's RAISE Hope for Congo campaign is fully engaged in bringing this trade -- and the mass violence it helps perpetuate -- to the public’s attention. The thoughtful and thorough segment aired over the weekend on CNN's Inside Africa program, and included an interview with Enough’s co-Founder John Prendergast and a snippet from our YouTube video contest to raise awareness about the connection between trace minerals contained in cell phones and other electronic products and armed conflict and sexual violence in Congo. The five-minute ...
Prendergast on CNN International’s Inside Africa
This weekend, catch Enough co-Founder John Prendergast and U.S. Representative Jim McDermott on CNN-International's Inside Africa cable television program. They'll talk about how the mining and marketing of conflict minerals from Congo help fuel armed rebel groups and lead to sexual violence against women and girls. The minerals, tin, tungsten, tantalum, and gold, end up in cell phones and other small electronic devices. A Senate bill, the Congo Conflict Minerals Act of 2009, would help break the link between conflict minerals and armed groups and would provide for greater accountability and transparency in the minerals marketing process. The program will ...
Congressional Black Caucus Takes on Darfur
Today, Enough Advisor Omer Ismail, a native of Darfur, joined 16 members of the Congressional Black Caucus for a press conference to announce their participation in a fast "in solidarity with the Darfuri people." Actress and activist Mia Farrow, whose hunger strike for Darfur inspired the Darfur Fast for Life fasting chain, issued a notice that "among President Obama's priorities, Darfur has to take its place." Rep. Donald Payne (D-NJ) described the fast as "our small way of saying to Darfuris that they are not alone, they are not forgotten, and we stand with them." He emphasized that the group's ...
Genocide Survivors, Activists Take Message to the White House
Yesterday afternoon amid throngs of tourists taking photos in front of the White House, a dedicated group gathered near the pristine tulip beds to hear gruesome stories of man's state-sanctioned inhumanity against man. This memorial and advocacy event was part of Genocide Prevention Month, a coincidental convergence of six anniversaries of mass atrocities that take place in April: the Armenian genocide, the Holocaust, Cambodia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Rwanda, and the crisis still unfolding in Darfur. Polish Holocaust survivor Herman Snyder was an elderly man no longer as he described a boyhood experience emerging from the woods to find a mass grave that ...
Darfur Dream Team Launches Sister Schools, press release, 3-18-09
Basketball stars Tracy McGrady, Derek Fisher, Baron Davis, Luol Deng, Etan Thomas, and Jermaine O'Neal have joined together to announce the launch of the Darfur Dream Team’s Sister Schools Program ...
ICC Issues Arrest Warrant for Sudan’s President al-Bashir
The International Criminal Court in The Hague has issued an arrest warrant for President Omar al-Bashir of Sudan, a historic action that marks the first time the tribunal has acted against a sitting head of state. The charges stem from a July 2008 request by ICC Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo and include crimes against humanity and war crimes. The warrant specifically did not include the charges of genocide requested by the Chief Prosecutor last July. The Court noted: "He is suspected of being criminally responsible as an indirect [co]perpetrator for intentionally directing attacks against an important part of the civilian ...
