As Congo Heads into Crucial Week, U.S., E.U., Place Sanctions on More High-Level Officials
Today, the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) placed Évariste Boshab, Vice Prime Minister and Interior Minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Kalev Mutond, Director of the country’s National Intelligence Agency (ANR) on its Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) List ...
Dec. 9 Marks Intl. Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide and of the Prevention of this Crime
Today, the United Nations marks the International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide and of the Prevention of this Crime. The purpose of this day is to raise awareness of the Genocide Convention, which was adopted on December 9, 1948, and its role in combating and preventing the crime of genocide. It is also intended to commemorate and honor victims of genocide ...
NGO Coalition Calls for Sanctions on Senior DR Congo Officials
The Enough Project along with a coalition of 72 Congolese and 14 international human rights organizations have called on the European Union and the United States to expand targeted sanctions against those most responsible for recent violent repression and other serious human rights violations in the Democratic Republic of Congo ...
“A Groundbreaking Achievement”: Congress Passes “Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act”
Today, the United States Congress passed historic legislation empowering the U.S. government with the authority to place sanctions on corrupt public officials across the world who misappropriate state assets as well as anyone who attacks journalists and human rights defenders ...
Enough’s 5 Recommended Reads | Dec. 8
Enough's 5 Recommended Reads is a biweekly series featuring important stories you may have missed ...
“A Groundbreaking Achievement”: Congress Passes “Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act”
Today, the United States Congress passed historic legislation empowering the U.S. government with the authority to place sanctions on corrupt public officials across the world who misappropriate state assets as well as anyone who attacks journalists and human rights defenders ...
Congressional Hearing on Democratic Crisis in Congo
On Tuesday, November 29, Enough’s Associate Director of Policy for the Great Lakes Region, Sasha Lezhnev, testified in Congress before the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission for a hearing on democracy and human rights in the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...
Sudan Tribune Op-ed: Sudan’s Civil Disobedience: Africa’s latest “Hashtag Revolution”?
“Because of the nature of the dictatorship we are under, you are forced to embrace the use of social media, ...It’s not secure to try and use the tactics used in the ‘90s — demonstrations openly or on a daily basis — because we can never match the current government when it comes to violence. So we have resorted to a peaceful, constitutional revolution, which we are precipitating through the use of social media.” That was a Zimbabwean activist by the name of Mlambo, speaking to a correspondent of National Public Radio on October 21, 2016 ...
Enough’s Lezhnev to Congress: US has Leverage to Prevent Further Crisis in Congo
In a hearing before the U.S. Congress’ Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission today on “Democracy and Human Rights in the Democratic Republic of Congo,” Sasha Lezhnev, Associate Director of Policy at the Enough Project, presented testimony on strategies to avoid a violent crisis in the Congo, in particular through the use of greater U.S. financial pressure to create leverage in support of a democratic transition process ...
Enough’s Lezhnev to Testify in Congress on Preventing Violence through Financial Pressure in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Tomorrow, November 29, Sasha Lezhnev, Associate Director of Policy at the Enough Project, will testify alongside a distinguished panel of senior U.S. officials and Congolese and international activists before the U.S. Congress’ Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission hearing on “Democracy and Human Rights in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.” ...
