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Sudan: The Countdown
 Last week, the Obama administration's Sudan envoy, Ret. Major General Scott Gration, brought together key signatories and representatives from more than 30 countries and organizations in an effort to reinvigorate the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, or CPA, the troubled 2005 peace plan between northern and southern Sudan that ended a 22-year civil war.
The myriad challenges and risks facing Sudan in the next 19 months before the CPA ends cannot be addressed and mitigated unless the the international community adopts a new approach to the crucial final stages of implementation, notes "Sudan: The Countdown," the latest Enough Project strategy paper by noted Sudan scholar Gerard Prunier and Enough policy assistant Maggie Fick. Read the paper here.
Read Enough's take on the White House Sudan conference.
Listen as Enough Co-founder John Prendergast and Executive Director John Norris discuss the conference and other developments with activists.
[White House Photo of Gen. Gration. with President Barack Obama by Pete Souza.]
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Sister Schools Program Visits Darfuri Camp
Enough's new Darfur Dream Team Sister Schools Program paid its second visit to the Darfuri refugee camps in Chad where Enough and partners will begin supporting and supplying schools in the fall. While in Chad, Sister Schools coordinator Stella Kenyi (pictured at left, with Darfuri refugee children) and senior advisor Omer Ismail participated in World Refugee Day, reporting live via video from the Djabal refugee camp to an event held by the United Nations High Commissioner on Refugees in Washington, D.C.
Read Stella Kenyi's blog about her visit to Djabal camp.
Watch video exchanges between refugees in UNHCR camps in Chad, Kenya, and Pakistan.
Check out a video profile of a sixth-grade girl, 15-year-old Jimiya, who lives in Djabal camp.
Read a blog post from NBA star Tracy McGrady of the Houston Rockets about his support of the Ocampo School in the Djabal camp.
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Congo Lecture and Video Contest News
 Enough Co-founder John Prendergast, just back from three weeks in Congo, lectured at Washington's Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars about the need for a comprehensive policy to stabilize Congo's government, halt the scourge of mining conflict minerals, and protect human and women's rights.
The RAISE Hope for Congo campaign's Come Clean 4 Congo video contest, in partnership with YouTube, has received dozens of videos illustrating the need to curb the mining of conflict minerals in Congo.
Check out some of the highly creative and provocative videos sent in from all over the world, and get ready to vote for your favorite. The latest came from actresses Julianne Moore, Julianna Margulies of NBC's "The Good Wife," and Brooke Smith (watch at right.)
Mark your calendar: All videos submitted will be reviewed by a panel of celebrity judges, and beginning July 23, the public will be asked to vote on the winner from the judges' three finalists. The creator of the winning video will be flown to Los Angeles to have his or her video screened at an entertainment industry event. For more information, visit www.RAISEHopeforCongo.org.
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Activities, Actions, Advocacy
- Support the McDermott Amendment to the Defense Authorization Bill, which would require the U.S. government to publish a map of armed groups in mineral-rich areas of Congo. This amendment is a small but important element of a comprehensive approach to conflict minerals that Enough supports. Click here to take action to end the scourge of conflict minerals.
- How it Ends, a recent two-day event in Washington to advocate for U.S. involvement in capturing and prosecuting Ugandan rebel leader Joseph Kony and his Lord's Resistance Army, was a huge success. The live stream of the event and videos from the NGO Invisible Children are still playing here.
- The central and East African countries that Enough follows had the dubious distinction of being at the top of the list of the annual Failed States Index, compiled by the Fund for Peace and Foreign Policy magazine. Read more about why these troubled nations have become, or are in danger of becoming, failed states here.
- Follow us on Twitter! Keep up to date by following 'Enoughproject.'
Upcoming Events
- July 2, 2009
Third Annual Ante Up for Africa Poker Tournament, benefitting the Enough Project and Refugees International
Las Vegas, NV
- July 7-9, 2009
Campus Progress National Conference, Center for American Progress, featuring former President Bill Clinton, Enough's John Prendergast, and Good Charlotte's Joel and Benji Madden
Washington, D.C.
(Click here for details on the Enough Project's events page.)
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Multimedia
Film star Julianne Moore, along with actresses Julianna Margulies and Brooke Smith, donated their time to film a video in support of Enough's RAISE Hope for Congo campaign against conflict minerals. Watch it here.
To raise awareness about the Congo crisis, Actor Ken Baumann from ABC's "The Secret Life of the American Teenager" hosted dozens of other young Hollywood actors, at a consciousness-raising event in Los Angeles. From left, Enough Co-founder John Prendergast," Selena Gomez of "The Wizards of Waverly Place," and Baumann. See more photos here.
John Prendergast spoke via live video chat with residents of a Darfuri refugee camp in Chad, as part of a program for World Refugee Day. Watch this footage here.
From Our Blog,
Enough Said
Fetou Bensouda, Deputy Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, discussing prosecution of sexual crimes, in an interview with Laura Heaton:
If you look at our warrants....We have featured, quite a lot, sexual crimes, sexual enslavement ... rape.. as crimes against humanity.
Laura Heaton on the United States' military aid to the Somalian goverment:
U.S. government officials continue to put forth a holistic view of what needs to be done to ward off the threat of Somalia becoming a terrorist hotbed.
Quotes of the Week
When I ... saw an op-ed column by Dr. Ghazi Salahuddin Atabani, a key adviser to Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, under the headline "Give peace a chance," I could only assume that April Fools' Day had arrived very late this year.
- Enough Executive Director John Norris, from a letter to the Washington Times, Give Reality A Chance.
A responsible strategy for the Obama administration must be aimed at ending the scourge of the LRA, not simply managing the consequences of its destruction in central Africa. This strategy will succeed only if it is focused on one crucial goal: apprehending or otherwise removing Joseph Kony from the battlefield forever.
- Enough Co-founder John Prendergast and policy assistant Maggie Fick, from Stopping One Man to Save Thousands, in the Huffington Post.
Enough in the News
U.S. Tries to Walk Back From Comments Downplaying Genocide in Darfur
ABC News article quoting John Norris.
White House Boosts Effort to Salvage North-South Peace in Sudan
Washington Post article quoting John Prendergast.
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Enough is a project of the Center for American Progress to end genocide and crimes against humanity. Founded in 2007, Enough focuses on the crises in Sudan, Chad, eastern Congo, northern Uganda, Somalia and Zimbabwe. Enough's strategy papers and briefings provide sharp field analysis and targeted policy recommendations based on a "3P" crisis response strategy: promoting durable peace, providing civilian protection, and punishing perpetrators of atrocities. Enough works with concerned citizens, advocates, and policy makers to prevent, mitigate, and resolve these crises. To learn more about Enough and what you can do to help, go to www.enoughproject.org.
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