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Enough’s partner organization, The Atma Foundation, has teamed up a local Congolese organization Centre Kitumaini to create the Hand in Hand Program, which works to economically empower survivors of gender-based violence ...

On April 25, Oregon’s One Million Bones, or OMB, group hosted an installation at Portland State University of nearly 9,500 clay bones to remember victims of past genocides and support genocide prevention ...

Right now, in 2013, it has been ten years since the tragedy occurring in Darfur started. In 2003, the Sudanese government began supporting militia groups called the Janjaweed (“Devil on Horseback” in Arabic) to terrorize villages in Darfur because of their ethnicity and with goals of acquiring land and resources. These actions have been widely recognized as genocide ...

Guest blogger Ellen J. Kennedy, Ph.D., is the Founder and Executive Director of World Without Genocide at William Mitchell College of Law ...

Are you a high school or college student with strong leadership skills and a passion for growing the anti-genocide movement? If so, I’d like to encourage you to apply for one of the many positions that are now open on STAND’s national leadership team. In case you aren’t familiar with STAND, we are a student-led organization consisting of high school and college chapters around the country, all of whom are dedicated to mobilizing their communities to prevent and stop mass atrocities. We were originally formed in response to the Darfur genocide, and the scope of our advocacy now includes ongoing ...

This piece by Emma Smith and Christine Garcia, which originally appeared on PolicyMic, was the winner of the 2013 STAND Human Rights Essay Contest that challenged students to provide recommendations for how U.S. policy can help stop mass atrocities unfolding around the world. Smith and Garcia are students at Dartmouth College and members of the Conflict-Free Campus Initiative ...

During the last 10 years, Guisma went from living with her brothers and parents in their village in Darfur, to seeing two older brothers killed during the brutal attack on their home, another younger brother die during the escape to Chad, and a little sister die in the refugee camp that is now Guisma's home ...

Guest blogger Jimmy Mulla reflects on the 10 year anniversary of the conflict in Darfur through the perspective of a friend from just one of the many villages destroyed there by a government-sponsored campaign of violence ...

Please join Act for Sudan and hundreds of leading activists from around the country on March 10-11, 2013, for a unique educational and advocacy event focused on the ongoing crises in Sudan at George Mason University, in Washington D.C. The summit includes an optional afternoon of lobbying on Capitol Hill ...