Sudan, South Sudan
South Sudan announced it was seeking US$99 million in funding to conduct a census, which has been encountering that may prevent the exercise planned for 2014 from taking place.
By Chapter Leader Gillie Collins
Nobel Prize winner and Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi said “we will surely get to our destination if we join hands.” As anti-genocide activists in the U.S., how do we join hands with the Burmese people from thousands of miles away?
By Chapter Leader Rachel Wald
By Comms Blogger Tyler S. Bugg
In a letter to the president of the U.N. Security Council, Susan Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, warned that the Khartoum government’s restrictions of international aid workers and emergency assistance packages to Sudan’s South Kordofan and Blue Nile regions is placing the area “on the brink of” a humanitarian famine crisis.
When does an “on the brink of” crisis become a “present and current” crisis? I find it already has.
Syria
By Comms Blogger Zoya Waliany
In November 2011, the GOP presidential hopefuls hit the road to meet with voters in Iowa, New Hampshire, and other states with early primaries. Mitt Romney announced to voters that his campaign aimed "to save a vision of America," the country he calls "the greatest nation in the history of the Earth."
Syria
By Regional Organizer Kaelee Krege
Syria Bill
