STAND Conflict Update: July 2020
Sudan and South Sudan Sudan This month, Sudan’s government ratified a series of laws that included the criminalization of the wide-spread practice of female genital mutilation (FGM). Practices of FGM… Read more…
Sudan and South Sudan Sudan This month, Sudan’s government ratified a series of laws that included the criminalization of the wide-spread practice of female genital mutilation (FGM). Practices of FGM… Read more…
“One person becomes displaced every 2 seconds– less than the time it takes to read this sentence.” -UNHCR Introduction to World Refugee Day In December of 2000, the United Nations… 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…
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…
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…
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…
Great Lakes Region Democratic Republic of the Congo In November, Air Serv mobilized to assist Doctors Without Borders’ efforts to contain the cholera outbreak in Kasai province. Kasai has been… Read more…
As 2018 begins, STAND is reflecting on the challenges of the last year, which included Zimbabwe’s rapid overthrow of former President Robert Mugabe, global attention towards an economic crisis and… Read more…
In June, there was a massive prison escape in the Congo, an accusation by Burundi’s government of the EU interfering with their regime, a vote in the US Senate on… Read more…
STAND’s Weekly News Briefs are compiled weekly by members of the STAND Education Task Force. This week’s update covers the escalating conflict between Séléka armed groups in the Central African Republic,… Read more…