NY Times’ Nicholas Kristof: “Marching Toward a Massacre”
In his column on the current protests in Sudan, NY Times’ Nicholas Kristof speaks to Enough Project Senior Advisor Omer Ismail ...
Full Transparency Paramount During Congo Post-Electoral Period
The coming days will prove critical for the Democratic Republic of Congo, as the country navigates the post-electoral process of a hotly contested presidential race ...
International Reaction to Impending Congo Election Results Will be Critical
The Democratic Republic of Congo's electoral commission (CENI) is expected to announce provisional results of the country's recent elections as early as tonight, January 9. Civil society, church, and opposition leaders express serious concern that the electoral commission will announce a fraudulent result. The Catholic Church and its partners, which deployed more than 40,000 election observers throughout the country, report that opposition candidate Martin Fayulu is the clear victor, according to their data from polling stations ...
From Novice to Change-Maker: My Reflections as a Student at the Lemkin Summit
In this blog, Ishmael Maxwell, a former Lemkin Summit participant, shares his Summit experience ...
TIME Op-ed: Our World Runs on Resources Looted From Congo. That’s Why Democratic Elections Alone Can’t Solve the Country’s Problems
This op-ed originally appeared in TIME and was written by John Prendergast and Sasha Lezhnev ...
Serious Concerns about the Credibility of DR Congo’s Electoral Process
Process marred by repression, major transparency issues, seriously unlevel playing field. Enough Project and The Sentry’s experts are available for comment ...
U.S. Treasury Sanctions Entities for Their Role in South Sudan’s Devastating Conflict
The Sentry welcomes the announcement today by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) that it has sanctioned three individuals, Gregory Vasili, Israel Ziv, and Obac William Olawo, for their roles in South Sudan’s conflict. Six entities owned or controlled by two of the aforementioned individuals were also designated pursuant to Executive Order 13664 ...
Targeted Sanctions on Human Rights Abusers and Kleptocracies
On December 13, 2018, The Sentry's Director of Policy and Analysis Joshua White was on a panel examining the impact of the Global Magnitsky sanctions, opportunities to improve implementation, and how the sanctions fit within financial sector approaches to human rights and corruption ...
War Crimes Suspect Patrice-Edouard Ngaissona Turned Over to the ICC: A Glimmer of Hope for Victims in CAR
Today, a Central African Republican militia commander, Patrice-Edouard Ngaissona, was arrested by French authorities in Paris, pursuant to an International Criminal Court (ICC) arrest warrant ...
In Joint Statement, NGOs Urge London Metal Exchange to Adopt Thorough Due Diligence Standards
On December 5, 2018, the Enough Project and 12 other international NGOs submitted the below letter to the London Metal Exchange (LME), urging it to adopt thorough due diligence standards into its recent Responsible Sourcing proposal ...
