On Monday, September 10 at 10 a.m. EDT, the United Nations Security Council will host a first-ever session on the critical and devastating connection between corruption and conflict. John Prendergast, Enough’s Founding Director and co-Founder of The Sentry, will join UN Secretary-General António Guterres as one of the two featured speakers. Watch the livestream here.
Click here to read Prendergast’s remarks. Click here for an explainer on multilateral tools to counter corruption linked to conflict.
As the work of Enough and The Sentry have demonstrated in war-torn areas of East and Central Africa, tackling corruption through the use of financial pressure is critical to creating consequences for those profiting from conflict and atrocities in order to create leverage for peace and human rights.
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The UN Security Council has the potential to mobilize the international community to implement and enforce these pressures in unique ways, and this session is an opportunity for the Council to begin this effort.
Watch the livestream here. For more information, please see our media advisory and the Security Council Report announcement.