Brown, Dartmouth, and Yale Release Joint Statement on Conflict Minerals
Not only do universities educate students on issues of social justice, but they also serve as venues for students to organize around these issues and generate substantive change in society. Today, student leaders at Brown, Dartmouth, and Yale are seizing their opportunity to stimulate change by releasing a joint statement calling for responsible investment policies in relation to conflict minerals sourced from eastern Congo. Brown, Dartmouth, and Yale all participate in the Conflict-Free Campus Initiative, or CFCI, a network of more than 150 campuses worldwide, in this rising call for action ...
Introduced in the House of Representatives: Sudan Peace, Security, and Accountability Act of 2013
On April 24, 2013, Rep. Wolf (R-VA) and Rep. McGovern (D-MA), along with 22 other co-sponsors, introduced H.R. 1692 – the Sudan Peace, Security, and Accountability Act of 2013. The bill comes at a critical moment: with a humanitarian crisis rapidly unfolding in South Kordofan and Blue Nile, continued unrest in Darfur and Abyei, and instability widespread throughout the country, immediate attention that addresses both the dire fallout and the root causes of these issues is essential ...
’60 Minutes’ Documents Successes and Challenges of Anti-LRA Operations
In a recent segment on the CBS news program, 60 Minutes, correspondent Lara Logan reported on the status of “one of the biggest manhunts that’s ever taken place” – the search for Joseph Kony. The fifteen-minute segment covered the scope of atrocities that continue to be committed by Joseph Kony and his fighters, known as the Lord’s Resistance Army, or LRA. LRA fighters maim, rape, and brutally murder civilians, and the army is comprised of a force that, sadly, includes “one of the biggest armies of child soldiers in history.” ...
HP, Sandisk Publish the Names of Their Smelters, a Significant Step for Cleaner Supply Chains
Four years ago, electronics companies gave us many excuses for why digging into their supply chains to find conflict minerals was too difficult. “This is too ambitious,” they said. “We have thousands of suppliers, how can we know our smelters?” ...
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Georgetown Law Features Enough Project Experiential Learning Class
This year’s Samuel Dash Conference on Human Rights at Georgetown Law focused on “Jurisdiction for Mass Atrocities.” The April 8 conference included a panel discussing the Enough Project-supported experiential learning course, which was highlighted in an article published April 15 by Georgetown Law ...
Q&A with Darfuri Journalist Nadia Taha
Nadia Taha is a producer at Sudan Radio Service, or SRS, based in Nairobi, Kenya. We met in March to talk about her childhood in Darfur, activism at university in Khartoum, and work as the first female reporter with SRS. This Q&A is excerpted from our conversation ...
John Prendergast Testifies for Congo at the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on African Affairs
On Tuesday, April 16, John Prendergast, Co-founder the Enough Project, testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on African Affairs on the conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo ...
The Small Arms Survey: Sudanese Government May Be Arming Yau Yau Militia in Jonglei
The Small Arms Survey, an independent Swiss research group, released a report suggesting that the Sudanese government is arming David Yau Yau’s militia in Jonglei state, South Sudan. This supplements former allegations by the U.N. peacekeeping mission in South Sudan, or UNMISS, and the government of South Sudan that Sudan is supplying arms to the Yau Yau rebellion to destabilize the region. Despite the recent normalization of bilateral relations between Sudan and South Sudan, South Sudan’s Government Spokesman Barnaba Marial Benjamin accused Sudan of supporting Yau Yau’s rebellion to increase insecurity in Pibor Town, Jonglei. As Pibor borders Ethiopia, this ...
Doing Well – and Doing Good
Guest blogger Ellen J. Kennedy, Ph.D., is the Founder and Executive Director of World Without Genocide at William Mitchell College of Law ...
