Groups Urge U.S. Policy Reset on Sudan, South Sudan Wars
June 17, 2014 (Washington DC) --- The Enough Project, Humanity United, and 76 other international human rights groups joined together today to call for a fresh approach to U.S. policy on the war-torn countries of Sudan and South Sudan ...
New U.S. Approach toward Sudan and South Sudan
Seventy-eight international human rights groups joined together today to call for a fresh approach to U.S. policy on the war-torn countries of Sudan and South Sudan ...
The Chebeya Case: Persistence in the Pursuit of Justice
On June 2, the family of murdered Congolese human rights activist Floribert Chebeya filed a lawsuit in Senegal accusing a Congolese police officer of participation in the 2010 killing of Chebeya and his driver, Fidele Bazana. The new charges, filed on behalf of the victims’ relatives, are a welcomed development in an otherwise troubling series of events following Chebeya’s death. Congolese authorities should properly investigate and prosecute these crimes and ensure the families and supporters of the case are protected from intimidation and attack ...
Fashion Forward in the Democratic Republic of Congo: Ties to Persistence and Peace
All across Congo, artists, models, minority groups, and activists are beginning to stitch together a network dedicated to saving the living treasure of their artisanal and creative practices. Although faced with the destruction of war, the Congolese people are showing fashion and art have ties to peace ...
VICE News Op-ed: Sudan’s Silent Suffering Is Getting Worse
Sudan may be the world’s most murderous conflict. But the suffering of its people has been obscured, redacted, made silent. It is almost unfathomable that things could get worse, yet today the scale of violence is rising to unprecedented levels. The situation may sound hopeless - but that is not the case, as George Clooney and John Prendergast explain ...
George Clooney and John Prendergast’s Wake-Up Call: Sudan’s Silent War May be World’s Most Murderous
George Clooney and Enough Project co-founder John Prendergast, in an opinion piece published today, call for urgent attention to a resurgence of the war by Sudan’s government against its own people. The statement comes in advance of a new investigative report by Vice Media’s Ben Anderson premiering this Friday on HBO, which reveals violence in Sudan rising to unprecedented levels ...
Armed Groups Cede Control of Mines in Eastern Congo
Just four years after enactment of historic Dodd-Frank “conflict minerals” legislation, a new investigative report by the Enough Project identifies early signs of success, as armed groups responsible for mass atrocities, rape, and grave violations of human rights have ceded control of two-thirds of mines surveyed in eastern Congo producing tantalum, tin, and tungsten ...
The Impact of Dodd-Frank and Conflict Minerals Reforms on Eastern Congo’s War
Just four years after enactment of historic Dodd-Frank “conflict minerals” legislation, a new investigative report by the Enough Project identifies early signs of success, with many lucrative mines in eastern Congo no longer controlled by violent armed groups responsible for mass atrocities, rape, and grave violations of human rights ...
A Path to Peace for South Sudan
Six months into the civil war in South Sudan, the crisis continues to intensify despite peace overtures made far away from the front lines in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa. A fragile peace agreement signed last month between President Salva Kiir and former Vice President turned rebel leader, Dr. Riek Machar, has not yet been fully implemented ...
“It is our responsibility to participate in government intentionally and to be purposeful and compassionate citizens.”
Calvin Christian High School student and guest blogger, Lydia Marcus, recounts the feeling of power she gained to personally make a difference in the world following a recent class trip to Washington, D.C ...
