Category: Press Releases

John Prendergast, Co-founder of the Enough Project, testified before the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa today at a hearing, Sudan, U.S. Policy and Implementation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement ...

For Immediate Release July 29, 2009 Contact Eileen White Read, 202.741.6376 [email protected] ADVISORY: Enough Project Press Kit On Congo and Somalia WASHINGTON, D.C. – The team at Enough, the anti-genocide project at the Center for American progress, has produced an electronic press briefing book for the media covering Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s visit to Africa next week. The briefing book covers two of the countries in which the Enough Project’s policy team specializes, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Somalia. Enough has also included information on Sudan and Uganda, two other parts of Africa in crisis. The book ...

For Immediate Release July 29, 2009 Contact Eileen White Read, 202.741.6376 [email protected] ADVISORY: Enough Project Press Kit On Congo and Somalia WASHINGTON, D.C. – The team at Enough, the anti-genocide project at the Center for American progress, has produced an electronic press briefing book for the media covering Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s visit to Africa next week. The briefing book covers two of the countries in which the Enough Project’s policy team specializes, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Somalia. Enough has also included information on Sudan and Uganda, two other parts of Africa in crisis. The book ...

Dear General Gration: As a broad coalition of human rights, faith based and advocacy organizations dedicated to achieving peace in Sudan, we urge your immediate leadership to support the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID) in its efforts to provide protection to the long-suffering Darfuri civilians and to ensure a safe and secure operating environment for humanitarian aid operations. For more of the letter, continue reading here ...

Enough, the anti-crimes against humanity project at the Center for American Progress, today announced the three semifinalists of its Come Clean 4 Congo video contest and is inviting the public to begin voting to choose the winner. The contest, launched in May with YouTube, empowers individuals to create compelling messages that highlight the link between “conflict minerals” used in cell phones and the war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo – the deadliest since World War II ...

The Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague issued a decision today on the boundary of Abyei - an oil-rich and contested region along the disputed internal border between the northern and southern regions of Sudan ...

This week's legal decision on the boundary of Abyei - an oil-rich and contested region along the disputed North-South border within Sudan – will be the first major test of recent commitments made in Washington by the two parties to Sudan's 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement, or CPA ...

The world’s deadliest war and most pronounced use of rape as a weapon continue to rage in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. The Enough Project’s latest report on eastern Congo, by Co-founder John Prendergast and Congo-based analyst Noel Atama, argues that this multi-layered and immensely complex conflict can end only when the international community abandons its piecemeal approach to conflict management and adopts a new approach that focuses on five basic tasks ...

All this soaring rhetoric on resolving conflicts must be followed by serious and sustained action ...

While the international community remains seized with the crisis in Sudan, the inadequacies of conflict resolution efforts in Chad – host to 250,000 Darfuri refugees – continues to negatively impact peacekeeping efforts, says a strategy paper from the Enough Project at the Center for American Progress ...