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The international community must take a new approach to peace in Darfur by abandoning its piecemeal approach to Sudan, and demanding a comprehensive peace process that will address overarching national grievances, according to a new Enough Project policy report ...

The time has come to recognize that the issues in Darfur mirror those in South Kordofan, Blue Nile, and the East, and should therefore not be dealt with in isolation. The international community needs to abandon its piecemeal approach to Sudan and unite behind a demand for a comprehensive solution to the problem of overly concentrated, abusive power at the center ...

"Step Up for 1502", a new Raise Hope for Congo Facebook campaign, is pressuring the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and their member companies to back down from a legal challenge against the Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC, over Dodd-Frank 1502, and to implement the regulations with no additional delays or phase-ins. Panasonic, one of the campaign's targets, sent a clear message to activists when it removed then partially-restored all Congo-related posts on their public Facebook wall ...

Enough’s Raise Hope for Congo campaign kicked off a Facebook week of action yesterday to let companies know that their consumers want them to support strong implementation of the conflict minerals provision, Section 1502, of the Dodd-Frank Act. "Step Up for 1502" is intended to pressure the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and their member companies to back down from a legal challenge against the Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC, over the legislation and implement the regulations with no additional delays or phase-ins ...

Dr. Ellen J. Kennedy, a Minnesota-based professor, wrote this guest blog post about her ‘Enough Moment,’ which inspired the creation of a non-profit organization called World Without Genocide and a poignant project where her students reflected on their decisions to become activists ...

The movement to Occupy Wall Street, or OWS, that began in New York has spread like wildfire to other major cities throughout the country, including right here in Washington D.C. From the Enough Project office we were able to cheer on protesters marching toward Freedom Square, and Enough Project interns, along with Congo Campaign Manager JD Stier, joined the crowd to protest on the steps of the Chamber of Commerce ...

This post originally appeared on The Hill: How could U.S. policy toward South Sudan over the last decade be so successful, and its policy toward Sudan be such an abject failure? The answer to that question partially holds the fate of millions of Sudanese who remain trapped in a state at war with its own people on four fronts and ruthlessly repressing all forms of unarmed opposition ...

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A South Sudan official has accused the North of providing support and training camps for the Lord’s Resistance Army, or LRA, to enable cross-border attacks into South Sudan. At a press conference recently in Juba, the South Sudan minister of interior Alison Manani Magaya said that Sudan is looking for all possible ways of destabilizing South Sudan ...

Guest blogger Verna Krishnamurthy, a senior and student activist at University of Pittsburgh, writes about what motivated her to join the Conflict-Free Campus Initiative ...