NGOs Urge UN Security Council to Impose Targeted Sanctions and Arms Embargo in South Sudan
The Enough Project, Human Rights Watch, and Amnesty International sent letters to the United Nations Security Council, asking them to fulfill their commitment to impose sanctions on individuals who have committed abuses against civilians in South Sudan and calling for an arms embargo. See letter below ...
NGOs Release Joint Statement Today as Angola, Russia Put Hold on Security Council Targeted Sanctions on South Sudan
Enough Project, Human Rights Watch, and Amnesty urge Security Council to impose new targeted sanctions ...
A Most Unwelcome Guest
While it appears that Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir is no longer considering a visit to this year’s United Nations General Assembly, his repeated intentions to travel to U.N. Headquarters in New York raise serious political and ethical challenges, as well as two important legal questions ...
Dr. Mukwege Responds to the DRC Government Banning “The Man Who Mends Women – The Wrath of Hippocrates”
On September 3rd, Panzi Foundation published a statement from Dr. Denis Mukwege on the DRC Media Minister Ban of “The Man Who Mends Women - The Wrath of Hippocrates” documentary ...
African Arguments: The CAR’s Rushed Elections are a Dangerous Gamble
"The Central African Republic cannot afford to bet on its future for the sake of the international community’s need to show progress" write Kasper Agger and Christopher Day in this African Arguments piece on "the external push toward towards elections has left local leaders, armed groups, and ordinary Central Africans behind." ...
Bosco Ntaganda War Crimes Trial Opens in the Hague: Historic Opportunity for Accountability
September 2, 2015 – As the war crimes trial of Bosco Ntaganda opens today at the International Criminal Court (ICC), the Enough Project highlights the significance of this case in its potential to bring historic accountability for war crimes allegedly committed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) ...
Enough Project Statement on the Signing of the South Sudan Peace Agreement
The Enough Project welcomes the decision by the Government of South Sudan and President Salva Kiir to sign the compromise peace agreement, adding his signature to that of armed opposition leader Dr. Riek Machar and other stakeholders, to hopefully bring their country’s brutal civil war to an end ...
The Daily Beast Op-ed: Saving South Sudan From Kleptocracy
South Sudan’s belligerents have signed a peace deal, but it is far from certain that the brutal 20-month civil war is over. If the next steps the parties take are simply to restore the status quo that existed before the war’s eruption, the odds are wildly in favor of a return to deadly conflict. However, if the implementation of the agreement is seen as a chance to restart the construction of a viable state in the world’s newest country, dismantling the violent kleptocracy that it’s become since independence in 2011, then South Sudan has a chance for peace ...
Enough Project Statement on the Signing of the South Sudan Peace Agreement
The Enough Project welcomes the decision by the Government of South Sudan and President Salva Kiir to sign the compromise peace agreement, adding his signature to that of armed opposition leader Dr. Riek Machar and other stakeholders, to hopefully bring their country’s brutal civil war to an end. Read the full statement below ...
Enough Project Welcomes South Sudan Peace Agreement, Warns of Challenges Ahead
August 26, 2015 – In a statement published today, the Enough Project welcomed the signing by the President of South Sudan of a peace agreement to end the civil war that has resulted in tens of thousands of deaths since the conflict began in December 2013 ...
