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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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

A weekly round-up of must-read stories, posted every Friday ...

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 ...