Name: Daniel Solomon 

Position: National Advocacy Coordinator

School: Georgetown University

City: Washington, DC/New York, NY

 Hi fellow upSTANDers!

Invitation from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum

Sudan at the Crossroads:

As Congress moves towards its electoral recess, the Senate’s genocide prevention resolution is gaining momentum. Introduced on August 5 by Senators Russ Feingold (D-WI) and Susan Collins (R-ME), S.Con.Res. 71 is an important first step in the development of a coordinated U.S. government strategy to prevent and end genocide and mass atrocities. 

Blog written by Outreach Coordinator and UNC at Chapel Hill student Erin Murphy.

I moved to Saudi Arabia when I was 8-years-old. I became a student in a school unlike any I had been in; I was one of five Americans in my grade, and the rest were from all over the world. My best friends were from Lebanon, France, Sweden, and India. Every time something happened in the world, it wasn’t just a current event or something you read in the news- it was something that affected one of my close friends’ relatives or friends in their home country. Things happening in different countries were suddenly much more personal and real than they ever had been before.

ASU STAND Chapter and Darfur and Beyond Host STAND Up 4 Africa Conference

Name: Ashton Simmons

Position: National Education Coordinator

School: DePauw University

City: Greencastle, IN

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 Zach’s UpSTANDer Story

The State Department announced yesterday the creation of a Sudan negotiation support team, which will assist the U.S. diplomatic mission in Sudan in facilitating the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) implementation process. The support team, led by veteran U.S.