Pressure Somali Government to Alleviate Famine: Enough Paper
The international community must temporarily redirect the political pressure it is placing on Somalia’s Transitional Federal Government (TFG) to compel it to open humanitarian access to thousands of famine victims in its areas of control, according to a new policy paper by Ken Menkhaus for the Enough Project ...
Somalia: State-Building as if People Mattered
The international community must temporarily redirect the pressure it is placing on Somalia’s Transitional Federal Government, and insist that it focus first and foremost on ensuring unimpeded access to famine victims in its areas of control. In Somalia, 750,000 people are at immediate risk of famine and a total of 4 million—half the total population—needs emergency assistance ...
Clark Becomes First University to Commit to Conflict-Free Purchasing Policy
Guest bloggers Rachel Gore and Emma Craig, members of the STAND chapter at Clark University, recently marked a major victory in their Congo advocacy efforts and wrote this post to explain how they pulled it off ...
The Citizen Journalists on the Front Lines in Sudan
For months, Ryan Boyette’s name and his presence in the Nuba Mountains remained a closely-held detail, never mentioned in public reporting about the atrocities that have been unfolding in the area since June. But as Enough’s Jonathan Hutson noted to New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof for his Sunday column, Boyette is “irreplaceable” through his role as a rare foreign witness to the Sudanese government’s aerial bombardments and ground attacks ...
Joshua Dysart: Illustrating the Terror of the LRA through Comic Books
Joshua Dysart is a comic book writer who, after learning about the Lord’s Resistance Army, was inspired to base a series of comic books in northern Uganda to help spread awareness about the group and the communities it is has affected ...
Intelligence Journal Recognizes Satellite Sentinel Project’s Work in the ‘Top 25’
The Satellite Sentinel Project’s unique role in bridging the gap between intelligence and human rights activism is reinforced by our recognition in C4ISR Journal’s“Big 25 Awards.” The world of C4ISR—“Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance” —may seem obscure, but these awards recognize some of the most important contributions to international safety you never knew existed ...
Why Obama Sent Troops to Africa
In deciding to send U.S. military advisors to assist in tracking the Lord's Resistance Army, President Obama said, "I believe that deploying these U.S. armed forces furthers U.S. national security interests and foreign policy." As actress and activist Mia Farrow and I write in this op-ed for The Wall Street Journal, there is a very compelling human interest as well ...
5 Stories You Might Have Missed This Week
A weekly round-up of must-read stories, posted every Friday ...
Using the New Focus on the LRA to End Them
The White House’s move to send military advisors to Central Africa has renewed attention to the LRA crisis in a potentially game-changing way. Taken together with the current negotiations over a possible new African Union-led mission to stop the rebel group, we could be witnessing a turning point in the way the international community addresses this brutal group – hopefully leading to its demise once and for all. A new paper released by Enough today hones in on what it will take for these current initiatives to succeed and put an end to the LRA once and for all ...
Senators Urge SEC to ‘Promptly’ Issue Conflict Minerals Rules
U.S. senators this week sent a letter calling on the Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC, to promptly implement the Conflict Minerals Provision of the Dodd-Frank Act. “Allowing any further time to elapse will only prolong the profound human suffering and violence occurring in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) today,” the group of 12 senators said in the letter addressed to SEC Chairman Mary Shapiro ...
