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Today, take some time to make sure that Sudan is a top priority from Day 1 of Barack Obama’s presidency.
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Today, take some time to make sure that Sudan is a top priority from Day 1 of Barack Obama’s presidency.
Join student activists across the country by calling 1-800-GENOCIDE to speak with your Senator’s office.
In a critical news break, the rebel group JEM warned of imminent attacks against key government positions, although it is not clear if they mean to attack Khartoum again like they did this summer or other government positions… So far there is no news of attack.
Several great reports and articles were released this week:
When slavery is brought up, images are often conjured of African civilians being forced to work the cotton fields of America, or the cane fields of Haiti. The backbreaking agricultural work on no pay with no freedom to come and go, the physical coercion – these are all not things of the past:
The New York Times released a powerful article the other day on the changing role of militarized youth in the camps for displaced Darfuris.
Last week, the ENOUGH Project released a report urging the international community to change its approach toward the conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) – to abandon its tradition of “parachute diplomacy” and peacekeeping quick-fixes in favor of sustained, high-level pressure that will achieve a political settlement and establish long-term security in the region.
Specifically, ENOUGH argues that the international community should:
Violence erupted again this week along the volatile faultline that is the town of Abyei.
Tribal fighting between the rival tribes Fallata and Habaniya in Darfur ended up killing 75 people to estimates of 150 people, including several policemen, and displacing hundreds.
The Genocide Prevention Task Force was convened by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the United States Institute for Peace, and the American Academy of Diplomacy and launched on November 13, 2007 and released its report to the public on December 8, 2008. Its goals are: (1) To spotlight genocide prevention as a national priority; and; (2) To develop practical policy recommendations to enhance the capacity of the U.S. government to respond to emerging threats of genocide and mass atrocities.
60 years ago yesterday, the Genocide Convention came into being, and 60 years ago today, the United Declaration of Human Rights was also written and signed.