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Call to Action for Florida on Atrocities Prevention
There is an urgent opportunity to ask Senator Rubio to lead on preventing genocide and mass atrocities. Today, Thursday, June 23 we are asking as many constituents as possible to take 2 minutes to call Senator Rubio’s Washington, D.C. office to urge him to co-sponsor...
Urgent Action Needed Today: Dodd-Frank Conflict Minerals Under Attack
Urgent Action Needed TODAY: The conflict minerals provision, Dodd-Frank section 1502, is under attack – with a House vote scheduled in just a few hours on an amendment that seeks to dismantle all the significant progress that has been achieved to reduce the flow...
Enough Project Statement: Stolen Assets Must be Returned to the South Sudanese People
John Prendergast and Brian Adeba of the Enough Project recently released this statement on stolen assets to be returned to the South Sudanese people. Recently, the president of South Sudan, Salva Kiir, called for global support to recover assets stolen by South...
Red flags we can’t ignore
Warning signs, grimly reminiscent of previous episodes of genocide, are appearing across Burundi. This tiny nation, nestled within the green hills of equatorial Africa, has hosted disproportionate rates of ethnic violence in the decades since independence. Shortly...
Bipartisan Group of 120 Lawmakers Call on President Obama to Keep Sudan Humanitarian Crisis a High Priority
May 4, 2016 Press Release from Congressman Jim McGovern Original release is posted here WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today a bipartisan group of 120 members of Congress is calling on President Obama to re-prioritize peace, accountability and protection of civilians in Sudan...
Letter to the Wall Street Journal
April 29, 2016 Mr. Gerard Baker Editor in Chief The Wall Street Journal 1211 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY 10036 Dear Mr. Baker, We write to express our outrage over the genocide denial advertisement published in The Wall Street Journal on April 20, 2016. As you...
Invisible, Forgotten, and Suffering: Darfuri Refugees in Eastern Chad
In the article below Eric Reeves elaborates on the situation of the Darfuri refugees in Eastern Chad. Eric Reeves is a Professor of English Language and Literature at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts and has been writing about Sudan for more than 16 years....
CAR’s refugees – between a rock and a hard place
Years of conflict in the Central African Republic has generated roughly half a million refugees. With over 100 residents of the nation’s capital, Bangui, killed between last September and November this past year, the violence is likely to continue and to generate...
The Cancer within Peacekeeping
Last month, an International Criminal Court tribunal found the former vice-president of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Jean-Pierre Bemba, guilty of allowing his soldiers to commit rape throughout their 2004 deployment in the Central African Republic (CAR). This...