Conflict Update: March 2019

Posted on March 27, 2019 by Mac Hamilton

  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…

Omar al-Bashir’s Tightening Grip on Sudan

Posted on March 21, 2019 by Isabel Wolfer

Since mass protests erupted in December, events in Sudan have developed rapidly. On February 22, President Omar al-Bashir declared a one-year state of emergency in an effort to quell mass… Read more…

Student Activists Celebrate Signing of Elie Wiesel Genocide and Atrocities Prevention Act into Law

Posted on January 15, 2019 by Casey Bush

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…

STAND Statement on Mass Protests in Sudan

Posted on January 5, 2019 by Casey Bush

As a student-led organization born in 2004 during the movement to end genocide in Darfur, we stand in solidarity with anti-government protesters in Sudan. Since December 19, protests with the… Read more…

STAND Statement on the Refugee Resettlement Cap

Posted on September 20, 2018 by Casey Bush

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…

Summer Conflict Update #2: July 12, 2018

Posted on July 12, 2018 by Charlotte Abin

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…

Summer Conflict Update #1: June 22, 2018

Posted on June 22, 2018 by Elizabeth Sturley

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…

Darfur Still in Crisis

Posted on March 5, 2018 by Erica Yeagley

Genocide and civil war have raged in Darfur, a region of Western Sudan, since 2003. Multiple warrants for Omar al-Bashir’s arrest have been issued because of the myriad of war… Read more…

Biweekly Update 2/2/2018

Posted on February 2, 2018 by Ellen Bresnick

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…

STAND’s Ten Conflicts to Watch in 2018

Posted on January 22, 2018 by Justin Cole

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…