STATEMENT: Darfur Advocates Call on Special Envoy Gration to Make UNAMID Effectiveness a Top Priority
Dear General Gration: As a broad coalition of human rights, faith based and advocacy organizations dedicated to achieving peace in Sudan, we urge your immediate leadership to support the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID) in its efforts to provide protection to the long-suffering Darfuri civilians and to ensure a safe and secure operating environment for humanitarian aid operations. For more of the letter, continue reading here ...
Chad’s Domestic Crisis: The Achilles heel for Peacemaking in Darfur
The United States has largely steered clear of Chad’s internal crisis, but the inadequacies of crisis management in Chad will continue to negatively impact the situation in Sudan, where the United States has invested heavily in peace. It’s time to get serious about Chad, and the Obama administration is in a unique position to coordinate pressure on President Déby to enact genuine political reforms ...
Help Change Her Life. And Yours
Join Women for Women International and participate in a 2009 Run for Congo Women to stand up for women in the Democratic Republic of the Congo Run for Congo Women began with one woman’s determination to raise awareness about the dire situation in Congo and has become an international movement. More than 5.4 million people have died since 1998 in this conflict. Half of these deaths are children under the age of five. For women in Congo, brutal gang rape and torture are a daily reality. Run for Congo Women is your opportunity to help support these women and children ...
RELEASE: Enough Announces Finalists for “Come Clean 4 Congo” Video Contest
Enough, the anti-crimes against humanity project at the Center for American Progress, today announced the three semifinalists of its Come Clean 4 Congo video contest and is inviting the public to begin voting to choose the winner. The contest, launched in May with YouTube, empowers individuals to create compelling messages that highlight the link between “conflict minerals” used in cell phones and the war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo – the deadliest since World War II ...
The Abyei Arbitration Tribunal Issues its Ruling: Now the Hard Work Begins
The Abyei Boundary Commission has "exceeded its mandate," according to a ruling from the Abyei Arbitration Tribunal handed down this morning in The Hague. The tribunal’s ruling pertained to the question of whether or not the Abyei Boundary Commission, or ABC—established by the Abyei Protocol in Sudan’s Comprehensive Peace Agreement—“exceeded their mandate” in their 2005 report, which delineated the disputed boundaries of the oil-rich Abyei region and was intended to be a “final and binding decision.” The National Congress Party-led Sudanese government refused to accept the ABC report, which obstructed resolution of the standstill on Abyei. (You can read more ...
STATEMENTS: International Court Decision on Abyei, Sudan
The Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague issued a decision today on the boundary of Abyei - an oil-rich and contested region along the disputed internal border between the northern and southern regions of Sudan ...
From Mines to Mobile Phones
Discover the supply chain for Congo's conflict minerals in this audio slideshow ...
TEN REASONS WHY Eastern Congo is the Most Dangerous Place on Earth for Women
Civilians in eastern Congo, particularly women and girls, are targets of conscience-shocking brutality and sexual violence ...
Enough: Abyei is Sudan’s Next Test
This morning, we released our latest strategy paper on Sudan, "Abyei: Sudan's Next Test." As we previously noted, this Wednesday the Abyei Arbitration Tribunal (located at the Permanent Court of Arbitration in the Hague) will issue its much-anticipated decision on the boundaries of the contested region of Abyei—an oil-rich, contested region along Sudan’s disputed North-South border. In this paper, Enough Policy Advisor Colin Thomas-Jensen and Policy Assistant Maggie Fick argue that the international community—in particular the United States, which played a critical role in negotiating the Abyei Protocol of Sudan’s Comprehensive Peace Agreement—has a responsibility to ensure that the ruling ...
Enough Outlines Action Plan to End Congo’s War
Our latest report – Eastern Congo: An Action Plan to End the World's Deadliest War – is out now and offers a five-point approach to confronting the world’s deadliest war, where rape as a weapon of war is a daily feature of the conflict. The paper pinpoints and details tasks that policymakers and activists should rally behind: Protecting civilians Implementing an effective counterinsurgency strategy against the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda, or FDLR Ending the trade in conflict minerals Promoting regional peace and economic cooperation Promoting accountability The paper by Enough Co-founder John Prendergast and analyst Noel Atama ...
