Author: Enough Team

I want to you impress upon you the severity of what is happening here without sensationalizing the violence – and at the same time, speak to the hope that still lives in the hearts of Congolese women. I want you to know that while there are incredible atrocities committed against women, the majority of Congolese men are wonderful human beings. And even though so much attention is given to the women, the men are suffering too – when they are kidnapped by militias, or sexually violated, or killed protecting their families, or rendered helpless by perpetrators while they watch the ...

Executives and staff of the Enough Project at the Center for American Progress have joined in the Darfur Fast for Life fasting chain begun by actress/activist Mia Farrow to call attention to the continuing suffering of the people of Sudan ...

My first visit to the hospital was brief but spent in conversation with THE Dr. Denis Mukwege, the now famous surgeon at Panzi hospital in the South Kivu province of Congo. What an amazing human being. He works endless hours to repair the bodies of women who have suffered traumatic rape. Approximately 300+ women and girls of all ages come to Panzi each month for such surgery. Despite the obvious despair that would harden most of us, Dr. Mukwege greets everyone warmly with a smile, affection, and genuine care. His face reveals the knowledge of a great burden but his ...

The Obama administration is bringing together key signatories and representatives from more than 30 countries and organizations in Washington this week in an effort to reinvigorate Sudan’s troubled Comprehensive Peace Agreement, or CPA, which ended a more than 20-year civil war in Sudan. A new strategy paper by the Enough Project at the Center for American Progress previews what will be discussed at the administration’s meeting and provides policy recommendations and an historical perspective on the most pressing issues ...

The myriad challenges and risks facing Sudan in the next 19 months cannot be addressed and mitigated unless the international community adopts a new approach to the crucial final stages of CPA implementation. Robust, coordinated, and high-level engagement is essential from all, not just a few, of the CPA’s “guarantors”—those states and organizations that witnessed the signing of the CPA and agreed to support its implementation. The United States and other key guarantors should play a lead role in driving this multilateral, multi-track approach, since the scale of the challenges over the coming months merit the engagement of all of ...

The introduction of legislation in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives earlier this week to commit the United States to comprehensive efforts to help civilians threatened by one of the world’s longest-running and brutal insurgencies is a crucial step forward for U.S. policy in the region, a coalition of twenty-two human rights, humanitarian, and faith-based groups said today ...

The United Nations Security Council, visiting the Democratic Republic of Congo beginning today, should press for urgent action to protect civilians, a coalition of 68 aid and human rights groups said today ...

Enough, the anti-crimes against humanity project at the Center for American Progress, is joining with YouTube™ today in announcing the launch of the Come Clean 4 Congo video contest, which 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 ...

We teamed up with Global Witness yesterday to welcome the introduction of the Congo Conflict Minerals Act of 2009 in the U.S. Senate, which would bring the resources of the U.S. government to bear on a critical driver of war in eastern Congo: the multi-million dollar trade in conflict minerals. Senators Brownback, Durbin, and Feingold, the original co-sponsors of the bill, have demonstrated important leadership and welcome dedication to the cause of peace in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and should be congratulated for their efforts. This bill would bring the resources of the U.S. government to bear on ...

Following the release of our Blueprint for Peace, which laid out policy options for the Obama administration to consider in devising its approach to Sudan, change.org’s Stop Genocide blog ran a post that posed some thoughtful questions to our team. Thanks to blogger Michelle for opening up further discussion on our key recommendations. Below please find the questions Michelle posed on her blog as well as some of our thoughts. Regarding our recommendation to isolate Bashir: Q: Khartoum's warmongering hasn't alienated Chinese and Arab investments yet (or at least, doesn't seem to have done enough), and predictions about the possibility ...