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New satellite imagery and the testimony of a citizen journalist from Sudan got attention on Capitol Hill yesterday in a briefing highlighting firsthand accounts from the Nuba Mountains of the conflict-torn border region of South Kordofan. A slideshow of powerful images played behind Ryan Boyette, a citizen journalist and former humanitarian aid worker, who brought a very personal perspective to the violence facing the region, a place he has called home for nine years ...

Congratulations to California for being the first state to adopt a conflict minerals bill! Governor Jerry Brown signed California’s SB 861 into law last weekend, and activists and those concerned about human rights issues should be proud ...

Ever creative and irreverent, VICE magazine recently ventured to eastern Congo to put together a five-part video series, The VICE Guide to Congo. The finished product explores the artisanal mining in the region and draws on Enough’s expertise in the field: Fidel Bafilemba, our Goma-based field researcher advised the crew on their trip, and our contract photographer from South Sudan, Tim Freccia, made many of the video and still images. Watch episode 1 ...

Since South Sudan became the world's newest nation in July, the state of Sudan it left behind has become engulfed in a civil war of its government’s own making. The Khartoum regime’s report card during the past four months includes an invasion of Abyei, a war-crimes spree in the Nuba Mountains, ongoing attacks against civilians in Darfur, and most recently an assault on the Blue Nile border state ...

In its third annual Game Changers series, The Huffington Post recognized 100 of the top movers-and-shakers in 12 categories ranging from "Media," to "Top Green Innovators," to "Style." These innovators, visionaries, and leaders have paved the way in their own fields, and are changing how we look at the world and the way we live in it ...

A new report by the Satellite Sentinel Project, “In Close Proximity: Alleged Abduction, Detention, and Extrajudicial Killings by Abu Tira,” documents proof that the Government of Sudan’s Central Reserve Police, or CRP, have engaged in war crimes against civilians and internally displaced people who sought refuge in the shadow of the U.N. compound in Kadugli, South Kordofan, Sudan ...

Long a banner issue for Sudan activists, the Darfur conflict now languishes in its eighth year, with at least 60,000 people newly displaced by fighting this year alone. Multiple rounds of peace talks since 2004 have produced agreements that have done nothing to bring security to the people of Darfur and in some cases “have actually made matters worse,” according to a new policy report by Enough ...

The Satellite Sentinel Project (SSP) has corroborated eyewitness accounts and United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR) reports alleging that the Government of Sudan’s Central Reserve Police (CRP) unit has engaged in the unlawful abduction, detention, and extra-judicial killing of civilians in South Kordofan, Sudan ...

Over the coming months, Enough will be drawing on experts and using our presence in Nairobi and Washington to focus attention on what can be done to end the current crisis and save lives. Our research will drive our public advocacy and will focus on the underlying causes that have created humanitarian crises in Somalia at abhorrently regular intervals over the past two decades ...