By Hannah Finnie, Advocacy Training Coordinator. Originally posted at the Emory University Center for Ethics. Cross-posted with permission from the author.
Hannah & Phillips Academy STAND in Washington, DC for the Summit
Submitted by Ashley Jowell, Durham Academy STAND
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You’ve probably gotten countless e-mails about it by now, and possibly even attended, but after much anticipation, the End Genocide Action Summit took place two weekends ago. With almost 300 students in attendance, the conference was pretty huge. But STAND and United to End Genocide did a fantastic job of giving everyone an individual conference experience.
This year’s Arab Spring brought unprecedented change to countries through out the Middle East and North Africa, as civilian protesters took to the streets to demand political change and democratic reform. In many countries, these protests were successful, with results ranging from various governmental reforms to total regime change. However, in other regions, the Arab Spring turned to the Arab Summer, and now into the Arab Fall.
Weekly STAND Education Update
10/7-10/13
On Monday we announced that every chapter that sends 5 or more people to the conference will be featured on our homepage for a week, and now, we’re gonna up the ante.
Syria: Recent Policy Developments
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So often, the narrative about the crisis in Sudan involves disempowering stories of women as mere victims of brutal violence, painting men as uniformly aggressive perpetrators with no goals but brutal lust and women as victims who have no agency in determining the shape of their future.
Quite the contrary.
