Weekly News Brief 1/17/2013
In light of the recent bombing of Aleppo University on Tuesday, STAND is working with the Syrian American Council to host emergency vigils across the country. For more information, see… Read more…
In light of the recent bombing of Aleppo University on Tuesday, STAND is working with the Syrian American Council to host emergency vigils across the country. For more information, see… Read more…
By Danny Hirschel-Burns, STAND Policy Analyst In South Sudan’s Jonglei state, ethnic violence between the Lou Nuer and Murle communities is a constant characteristic of South Sudan’s internal instability. Along… Read more…
Syria The humanitarian situation in Syria has been deteriorating rapidly. The United Nations is unable to provide food for about one million people and rain and cold are further deteriorating living conditions, leading to a… Read more…
It’s 2013. For conflict analysts, the new year is a time for lists. In particular, those ubiquitous lists of “conflicts to watch,” which seem to pop up on the regular…. Read more…
Democratic Republic of the Congo Just hours before Rwanda was set to join the UN Nations Security Council as a non-permanent member, the Council placed an arms embargo on M23 rebels and… Read more…
By Alex Hart, Indiana University ’15 The Rohingya are a stateless ethnic group living on the west coast of Burma and east Bangladesh. They are described by the United Nations… Read more…
This is the fourth in a series of posts highlighting cases of statelessness throughout the world. Click here for more information about the series. Already displaced from their native home in southern… Read more…
By STAND Advocacy Coordinator Daniel Soloman Last Friday’s shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, in Newtown, CT, has sparked a recognizable groundswell of public support for renewed gun violence prevention… Read more…
Hey upSTANDers! Because of school finals, this will be our last news brief until the new year–but keep checking out STAND’s blog and Facebook for updates, and if you haven’t yet, join us for… Read more…
By Rebecca Ljungren, American University STAND You may think that a bone is just a part of the human anatomy, but for students at American University last week, it became… Read more…