The Most ‘Insanely Great’ – But Missing – iPad Feature Ever
On March 7, Apple announces the highly anticipated iPad 3. With many exciting new features, the device could reinvent how we think about and interact with our world. But it’s not all that it could and should be. This piece co-authored with actress and activist Emmanuelle Chriqui originally appeared on the homepage of Huffington Post ...
Bringing Congo’s Perpetrators to Book: The Mission of Human Rights Lawyer Denise Siwatula
Since the early 1900s countries around the world have celebrated International Women’s Day as a time to recognize the role of women in society and mobilize against injustices specifically impacting half of the world’s population. At Enough, rather than confining our commemoration to just one day—March 8—we’re giving a special focus to women all this week, to highlight how the conflicts we’re working to end affect women and girls, and to recognize the work of heroes advocating on their behalf. For Day 3 of our International Women’s Week coverage, Chloe Christman on Enough’s Raise Hope for Congo campaign profiles a ...
Fresh from South Sudan and Moved by the Urgent Need to Act Amid Bashir’s Ongoing Abuses
Congressman Frank Wolf (R-VA), a longtime advocate for Sudan and co-chairman of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission, just returned from a trip to South Sudan. In this guest blog post, he reflects on his visit, which he says reinforced his strong view that international action must be taken to curb Sudanese President Bashir ...
Minerals, Militias, and Rape: How Do We Make Peace a Reality in Congo?
As nightfall approached on July 30, 2010, hundreds of armed men streamed into the village of Ruvungi in eastern Congo from the nearby forests surrounding the area. At first they told the villagers they were just there for food and shelter and that their presence should cause no alarm. However, what unfolded over the next four days marked one of the worst attacks against a civilian community in Congo in the last two years. This post originally appeared on Women Under Siege ...
U.S. Rep Donald Payne ‘A True Champion of Human Rights and Social Justice’
Enough Project Co-founder John Prendergast and Senior Advisor Omer Ismail reflect on the life and work of U.S. Representative Donald Payne (D-NJ), who passed away on March 6, 2012 ...
Conflict Minerals 101
This week's post in the series Enough 101 offers a primer in conflict minerals--what they are, how they work, the impact they have on Congolese communities, and why Enough focuses on the link between mining and electronics consumers in its advocacy on Congo ...
Sudanese Citizenship: Khartoum’s Egregious Violations of International Law
With the April 8 deadline fast approaching for Sudan to strip citizenship from “southerners,” concerns are mounting about how Khartoum will handle the more than half a million people who fall under this classification. Lawyer and guest writer James Bair considers the illegality of Khartoum’s move and offers suggestions about how an impending disaster might be averted ...
Busseina, 18-year-old Refugee, Student, Teacher, Inspiration
Since the early 1900s countries around the world have celebrated International Women’s Day as a time to recognize the role of women in society and mobilize against injustices specifically impacting half of the world’s population. At Enough, rather than confining our commemoration to just one day—March 8—we’re giving a special focus to women all this week, to highlight how the conflicts we’re working to end affect women and girls, and to recognize the work of heroes advocating on their behalf. For Day 2 of our International Women’s Week coverage, Meghan Higginbotham of Enough’s Darfur Dream Team profiled one of the ...
Rep. McGovern on Sudan: ‘We’ve Been Silent Too Long’
Congressman James McGovern (D-MA), a long-time advocate of human rights, addressed Congress last week about the ongoing violence in South Kordofan, Blue Nile, and Darfur, imploring Congress to recognize that “once again, the world is standing by, silent and passive, while the Government of Sudan wages war on its own people.” ...
Invisible Children’s Jason Russell on KONY 2012
Invisible Children's latest film, KONY 2012, premiered online today at 12 p.m. PST. It will serve as the cornerstone of a new joint campaign of Invisible Children, Resolve, and the Enough Project to make this year Joseph Kony's last as the leader of Africa's longest running insurgency. This Q+A with Invisible Children's Jason Russell, written by Krista Morgan, is cross-posted from IC's blog ...