Author: Enough Team

We hope you tuned in last night for The Reckoning: The Battle for the International Criminal Court on PBS’s P.O.V. documentary series. The Sundance award-winning film chronicles the first six years of the ICC from its headquarters in The Hague, to the scenes of the crimes - in eastern Congo and northern Uganda - to the U.N. headquarters in New York, where the ICC has met some of its toughest critics. Today, in response to the film, Enough will host a live video conference with Enough Policy Advisor Colin Thomas-Jensen, who will discuss recent developments with the ICC and take ...

All this soaring rhetoric on resolving conflicts must be followed by serious and sustained action ...

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As the team from Investors Against Genocide explained earlier this spring in a guest post on Enough Said, the investment management company Vanguard would hold a shareholder vote to determine whether Vanguard would revise its investment policies to ensure that no funds would be used to support companies that substantially contribute to genocide or crimes against humanity. The vote failed, and business blogger Marc Gunther reports on this regrettable outcome in a post that originally appeared here. Harvard, Yale and Stanford did it. So did the pension funds of 27 states, including California and New York. And investment firm TIAA-CREF ...

A team from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum recently traveled to eastern Congo, where they collected testimonies from survivors of the ongoing conflict. In a powerful recent post on World Is Witness, Michael Graham described a village in the wake of an attack by the brutal Lord's Resistance Army. Our MI-17 transport helicopter rumbles to life and lifts up from the UN base outside of Dungu, above American-made Humvees parked next to piles of supplies and prefabricated offices squatting alongside the dirt runway. UN staff in blue Kevlar and helmets buckled in next to me put on a jovial air, ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Joel and Benji Madden, leaders of the band Good Charlotte, will speak at the Campus Progress National Conference in a discussion with human rights activist John Prendergast, Co-founder of the Enough Project, a project at the Center for American Progress to end genocide and crimes against humanity ...

Film star Julianne Moore and actresses Juliana Margulies and Brooke Smith are featured in a new video to promote Enough’s RAISE Hope for Congo campaign aimed at connecting the sale of “conflict minerals” from the Democratic Republic of the Congo with the worse violence in the world against women and girls ...

Care about how your buying habits contribute to deadly conflict? Know every word to “The Anthem?” Then we have the announcement for you: Joel and Benji Madden of Good Charlotte are heading to D.C. for the Campus Progress National Conference to speak about the deadly issue of “conflict minerals.“ The brothers will join human rights activist John Prendergast in a discussion about how these minerals – mined in Congo and used universally in small electronic devices like cell phones – are fueling a deadly war in central Africa, and how young people can become activists on this issue. Prendergast is ...

This interactive slideshow presents the history of the LRA (Lord's Resistance Army) with a special focus on its senior leadership, who are wanted by the International Criminal Court ...

Somalia is being ripped apart by conflict. Listen to the stories of the people who fled Mogadishu because of war crimes, assassination, looting and indiscriminate bombings ...