Education Update 2/15/2014
This week we’ve included our Ask of the Week with our Education Update so you can learn and take action at the same time! Check out this week’s ask directed… Read more…
This week we’ve included our Ask of the Week with our Education Update so you can learn and take action at the same time! Check out this week’s ask directed… Read more…
Sudan On Sunday November 17, the Sudanese Air Forcebombed the town of Buram, south of the capital of South Kordofan. The reported Sudanese AF plane dropped two large bombs, which resulted in… Read more…
1. Sudan and South Sudan: This week the US backed an African Union plan to hold a referendum in the contested region of Abyei. The African Union High-Level Implementation Panel (AUHIP)… Read more…
STAND has decided to highlight the most important events of the past week by using pictures of important moments, meetings, and life throughout our conflict zones. We have pictures going… Read more…
Welcome to the first Education and Policy Update of the 2013-14 session! This year, we are mixing things up. Each week will feature an exciting new way to learn about… Read more…
This piece, written by Danny Hirschel-Burns, from Swarthmore College STAND, originally appeared on his blog The Widening Lens. As I sarcastically noted in the above tweet yesterday, the reaction from the… Read more…
A little foggy on your knowledge of Joseph Kony and the Lord’s Resistance Army? Want to do your own fact-checking on the Kony 2012 video? We put together a brief overview of the history of Kony and the LRA as well as a summary of Invisible Children and Enough’s policy asks in Kony 2012.
Important Historical Actors
In this week’s issue: The Enough Project reports that the LRA may be operating in Darfur to seek protection from the Sudanese military; UN Special Rapporteur recommended the establishment of a UN Commission of Inquiry in Burma; one of FARDC’s most abusive commanders continues to receive supplies from the UN