What do South Sudanese See as the Way Forward? It has now been three years since violence first broke out in the world’s newest nation. What began as a fight between different factions of the Presidential Guard on December 15, 2013, quickly grew into a full-blown ethnic conflict that rapidly spread across the country. Mass…
JWW’s Director of Advocacy and Programs Mike Brand speaks out in an interview with the International Business Times UK about how a bad situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo could get worse with a change in foreign policy under the new US administration. Note: This article originally appeared in the International Business Times. Read the full…
[su_quote]I have said before that we have collectively failed the people of Syria. The Security Council has not exercised its preeminent responsibility with regard to the maintenance of international peace and security…History will not easily absolve us, but this failure compels us to do even more to offer the people of Aleppo our solidarity at…
Last year, the United Nations (UN) General Assembly established December 9th as the International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide and of the Prevention of this Crime. This date was chosen because on December 9, 1948. the newly created United Nations adopted the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment…