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The Social Network (you know, the one in Chad)
The code is written and tested, all our servers are upgraded, the picture and video upload is up and running! I slap my laptop closed and sit back with a sigh and a smile. It’s 2am. I hear you thinking “Ah, of course, these geeky software people, they work...
Graphic photos purportedly showing violence in Nuba Mountains.
These pictures are reportedly from the Nuba Mountains in Sudan, showing the results of a recent Government of Sudan military offensive. GRAPHIC WARNING. Please be advised that some pictures are very GRAPHIC. Note: SGN cannot verify authenticity of photos. Picture 1...
Escalating War in Sudan:Urgent U.S. Policy Responses Needed
The international community must acknowledge that an undeclared war is now beginning between North and South Sudan says Sudan Now, a group of anti-genocide and human rights organizations. The escalating violence in the Nuba Mountains of the country’s tense border...
Menu Items for ‘How to Bring Down a Dictator’
After almost seven years of Darfur activism, what are we doing wrong? The people I first met in harsh refugee camps in 2005 are still there, in the camps. Actually, they have been joined by tens of thousands more, and hundreds of thousands more are now neighbors to...
Bring Guisma Home: Host a Home-Viewing and Action Party
“Don’t you just want to bring them home?” I’m often asked that when people see pictures and videos of me with children in the Darfuri refugee camps. I do bring them home with me, in so many ways. They are what keep me going every day in this...
Escalating War in Sudan:Urgent U.S. Policy Responses Needed
For Immediate Release: June 15, 2011 WASHINGTON — The international community must acknowledge that an undeclared war is now beginning between North and South Sudan says Sudan Now, a group of anti-genocide and human rights organizations. The escalating violence...
A Challenge I am Ready to Accept
The other day Gabriel asked me to write a blog post about why I am interning with Stop Genocide Now for the summer and what kinds of projects I am going to be working on. Thinking it would be simple, I eagerly nodded and started thinking of what I wanted to write...
After Assault on Abyei, U.S. Must Adopt a Consequence-based Sudan Policy: Rights Groups
For Immediate Release: May 23, 2011 Contact: Jonathan Hutson, Enough Project, jhutson@enoughproject.org, 202-386-1618 Ann Brown, GI-NET/SDC, abrown@annbrowncommunications.com, 301-633-4193 Washington D.C. – The U.S. government’s incentive-oriented policy toward...
LEADING HUMAN RIGHTS ORGANIZATIONS CONDEMN RECENT ATTACKS AND HUMANITARIAN AID RESTRICTIONS IN DARFUR
For Immediate Release: May 20, 2011 Washington, D.C. – Sudan Now, a group of human rights and anti-genocide organizations, today called on the Obama Administration to condemn the Government of Sudan for conducting air strikes against civilians in Darfur and preventing...