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Ocampo Interview with Foreign Policy

Read what the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has to say in an interview with Foreign Policy magazine ...

Sudan in the Senate

Sudan in the Senate
Enough co-Chair John Prendergast spent yesterday afternoon on Capitol Hill discussing U.S. relations with Sudan during a roundtable discussion with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Prendergast was joined by Sudan experts Roger Winter, Jerry Fowler, Michael Gerson, and Timothy Carney, as well as by U.S. Senators on the foreign relations committee. Below are a few highlights: The back and forth between senators and regional experts quickly moved to address the increasingly likely issuance of an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir. In particular, the discussion focused on the internal politics of Bashir’s National Congress Party, or NCP, and the ...

Media Advisory: RAISE Hope for Congo Speakers’ Tour – NYU

The Enough Project’s RAISE Hope for Congo Speakers’ Tour will make a stop at New York University’s Rosenthal Pavilion on Tuesday, February 17, 2009, at 6:00 pm. The speakers’ tour has been visiting college campuses and high schools around the country to educate students about the conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, the resulting epidemic of sexual violence against women and girls, and how students can be a part of a solution that will bring lasting peace to this central African nation ...

What the Warrant Means: Justice, Peace, and the Key Actors in Sudan

What the Warrant Means: Justice, Peace, and the Key Actors in Sudan
The issuance of an arrest warrant for Sudan’s sitting head of state for crimes against humanity offers the Obama administration a chance to catalyze multilateral efforts to bring about a solution to Sudan’s decades-long cycle of warfare. One of the crucial missing ingredients to conflict resolution efforts has been some form of accountability for the horrific crimes against humanity that have been perpetrated by the warring parties in Sudan, primarily the Khartoum regime. Peace without justice in Sudan would only bring an illusion of stability, without addressing the primary forces driving the conflict ...

Press Release: What the Warrant Means: Justice, Peace and the Key Actors in Sudan

Press Release: What the Warrant Means: Justice, Peace and the Key Actors in Sudan
A new report by the Enough Project at the Center for American Progress explores the impact of an arrest warrant for Sudan’s President on the ruling party, Darfuri rebel groups, the existing north-south peace agreement, and the international community ...

Press Release: RAISE Hope for Congo to Benefit From February 19 Afro-Pop Concert in Washington, D.C.

Press Release: RAISE Hope for Congo to Benefit From February 19 Afro-Pop Concert in Washington, D.C.
The Enough Project’s RAISE Hope for Congo campaign will be the beneficiary of the Concert for Congo at the DC9 nightclub here on February 19, 2009, featuring the afro-pop and roots-music group, Elikeh ...

Is the Justice and Equality Movement Launching its own Charm Offensive?

Is the Justice and Equality Movement Launching its own Charm Offensive?
Khalil Ibrahim, the leader of the Justice and Equality Movement, or JEM, and high-ranking officials from the United Nations/African Union peacekeeping mission in Darfur, or UNAMID, met recently in N’Djamena, the Chadian capital. According to the JEM spokesperson Ahmed Hussein Adam, the goal of the meeting was to: create a joint mechanism allowing them to work together to protect civilians and IDPs in Darfur and to enhance the humanitarian situation there. This meeting, along with the JEM’s decision to withdraw from the town of Muhajiria in order to avoid a clash with the government troops, could be an indication that ...

Congo Advocacy Coalition letter to United Nations: Civilian Protection Now

Congo Advocacy Coalition letter to United Nations: Civilian Protection Now
A coalition of 100 humanitarian and human rights organizations today called on John Holmes, the UN under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs, to insist that protecting civilians be a top priority of the joint Congolese and Rwandan military operation in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Holmes is due to arrive in Goma, the North Kivu capital, on February 7, 2009 ...

Press Release: DR Congo: Groups Fear for Civilian Safety

Press Release: DR Congo: Groups Fear for Civilian Safety
A coalition of 100 humanitarian and human rights organizations today called on John Holmes, the UN under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs, to insist that protecting civilians be a top priority of the joint Congolese and Rwandan military operation in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo ...

Media Advisory: Out of Exile: Narratives From the Abducted and Displaced People of Sudan

Out of Exile brings the crisis in Darfur and other parts of Sudan out of the policy realm and into the lives of people who never meant to carry the label "refugees." Decades of conflicts and persecution have driven millions from their homes in all parts of Sudan. Many thousands more have been enslaved as human spoils of war ...