Conflict Update: March 2019
This week’s conflict update covers events since the beginning of 2019 in STAND’s key focus areas: Sudan, South Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Yemen, Syria, Burma,… Read more…
This week’s conflict update covers events since the beginning of 2019 in STAND’s key focus areas: Sudan, South Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Yemen, Syria, Burma,… Read more…
In December 2018, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) reported that there is compelling evidence that violence against the Rohingya crisis is genocidal in nature. The report condemns the… Read more…
Last month, STAND activists celebrated the 70th anniversary of the Genocide Convention, the landmark treaty that defined genocide as an international crime and committed signatories to working to prevent genocide… Read more…
The US government should develop a decisive and swift policy response as new findings emerge on Burma’s campaign against the Rohingya. On September 24, the US State Department released a… Read more…
Today, world displacement levels are at an all-time high, with at least one person displaced for every 112 people around the world. With this as the reality, STAND is dismayed… Read more…
One year ago today, the Burmese military intensified a systematic campaign of violence against the minority Rohingya population, killing 6,700 and causing over 723,000 refugees to flee to Bangladesh. We,… Read more…
STAND’s Summer Conflict Updates come to you from STAND’s summer interns in Washington, DC. Throughout the summer, Charlotte and Elizabeth will be providing you with bi-weekly updates on everything you… Read more…
“Sport has the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire, it has the power to unite people in a way that little else does. It speaks… Read more…
STAND’s Summer Conflict Updates come to you from STAND’s summer interns in Washington, DC. Throughout the summer, Charlotte and Elizabeth will be providing you with bi-weekly updates on everything you… Read more…
The United Nations Refugee Agency reports that there are 68.5 million forcibly displaced people worldwide. That enormous number is composed of internally displaced persons, refugees, and asylum seekers. The number… Read more…