5 Stories You Might Have Missed This Week
A weekly round-up of must-read stories, posted every Friday ...
As Sudan Army Advances on Rebel Turf, Bashir Vows Troops Will ‘Pray in Kurmuk Soon’
Last week, the Satellite Sentinel Project, or SSP, reported on what appeared to be mechanized units of the Sudanese Armed Forces, or SAF, pointed toward the rebel stronghold of Kurmuk in Sudan’s Blue Nile state. An estimated 25,000 internally displaced people have poured over the Sudanese border, fleeing from indiscriminate bombing in Kurmuk to the relative safety of camps in neighboring Ethiopia, as Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir touted the army's plans to overtake the rebel stronghold "soon." ...
Access to Abyei, Displaced Residents Continuously Threatened
Abyei should remain accessible to humanitarians operating from both Sudan and South Sudan, the U.N. humanitarian coordination office, or OCHA, and former southern minister Luka Biong Deng said recently. An estimated 110,000 people remain displaced from Abyei and are scattered in locations to the south of the area. Humanitarian agencies responding to the needs of the displaced population have been largely operating in South Sudan, where the new government in Juba has control ...
Is Your Campus Fueling Conflict In The Congo?
MTV Act featured the Raise Hope for Congo campaign's new video launching the Conflict-Free Campus Initiative. "Apple, Microsoft, Dell, Nintendo, HDC — the students have spoken: You'd better clean up your act," writes MTV Act's Caroline Walker ...
Tracking the Lord’s Resistance Army in Real-Time
Michael Poffenberger, co-founder and executive director of Resolve, wrote this guest blog about an unprecedented new tool that will virtually track the activities of the LRA and provide a comprehensive overview of attacks on the ground ...
Clark U’s Congo Summit Draws Hundreds of Activists
This past weekend, the Raise Hope for Congo campaign team attended an international summit hosted at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, focused on the crisis in Congo, and how activists and academics can bring about change. The summit, aptly titled “Informed Activism: Armed Conflict, Scarce Resources, and Congo,” attracted close to 400 people, with participants representing students from 39 universities, 17 NGOs, Congolese civil society, media outlets, and the U.S. government ...
Mariska Hargitay: “Saying Enough to the shame, suffering, and isolation of rape survivors”
Mariska Hargitay, who plays a sex crimes detective on "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit," shares her Enough Moment ...
10,000 Thumbs Up for Enough Project
With the help of a steady community push, the Enough Project's Facebook fan page passed 10,000 fans early this morning ...
Child Soldiers—Where Is the Help?
The film "Machine Gun Preacher" illuminates the horrifying problem of child soldiers in Africa, but if the U.S. and other nations do not seize the moment to help, a vital opportunity will be lost ...
Clooney Capitalizes on ‘Ides of March’ Buzz to Spur Attention for Sudan
Playing a presidential hopeful in a film released as the U.S. election season is heating up, George Clooney’s “Governor Mike Morris” will no doubt resonate with audiences. But his work with the Satellite Sentinel Project is generating ample real-life significance as it spotlights human rights abuses in Sudan ...
