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Celebrities are becoming a significant contributing factor to human rights advocacy in Africa. "Celebrities who use their fame to highlight the plight of some of the world's most vulnerable people are making a real difference. They have educated countless people and shined a light on issues that would otherwise remain shrouded in darkness. By recruiting thousands of people to relatively unknown causes, they help create a real pressure for change,” said Co-founder of the Enough Project John Prendergast, who works closely with many of the organization’s celebrity partners. To highlight celebrities who have partnered to date with the Enough Project ...

With yet another Sudanese agreement dishonored, tensions between the Sudanese government and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North, or SPLM-N, continue to rise in the country’s border states, and violence threatens to spread from South Kordofan to Blue Nile. Malik Agar, SPLM-N chairman who is also the governor of the Blue Nile state told the Enough Project in Juba that there were no attempts of disarmament by SAF on the ground but he anticipates such action, saying they “do not fear SAF and have a contingency plan in place.” ...

Although she was unaware of it at the time, a human rights summit hosted by the Panim Institute in D.C. last month would end up permanently changing Dr. Mirele Goldsmith’s perspective on consumer electronics ...

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In an in-depth report, Al Jazeera English highlighted the Satellite Sentinel Project's unprecedented imagery of on-the-ground developments in the Nuba Mountains region of Sudan ...

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Activists called on President Obama this week to pursue limited military options in response to ongoing atrocities targeting civilians in Sudan's Nuba Mountains. Sudan expert Eric Reeves explains in this guest post the grave concerns about the violence that has already unfolded and the anticipation of further bloodshed that inspired this position ...

Attention to the situation in the disputed area of Abyei has been overshadowed by the worsening crisis to the northeast in the Nuba Mountains. In part, that may because of the agreement signed by Khartoum and Juba to remove their forces from the region and the U.N. Security Council’s authorization of a deployment of Ethiopian peacekeepers to secure the area. It seemed the situation was on the mend; with nearly 4,300 peacekeepers and police on their way to Abyei, surely the more than 100,000 displaced people would soon return home. But it's not the case ...

The Enough Project has launched an online database of Celebrity Upstanders who have used their star power to assist Enough by hosting events, appearing in videos and YouTube campaigns, traveling to Africa, and taking other significant steps to bring attention to Enough’s issues in order to end Africa’s worst human rights atrocities ...

In contrast to recent U.N. statements downplaying insecurity in eastern Congo, local civil society and humanitarian groups continue to be alarmed by violence by numerous armed groups operating in the region. The number of displaced civilians remains unconscionably high, and fighting along key roads frequently cuts off access for aid groups. Reporting from Uvira, the capital of South Kivu province, Enough’s Congo researcher Fidel Bafilemba described some of the most recent sources of instability and the resulting backlash against the U.N. peacekeeping force there, which continues to struggle to carry out its civilian protection mandate ...