South Sudan is the world’s youngest country, made up of 10 states, and home to over 60 different major ethnic groups. Salva Kiir Mayardit became president of South Sudan—then still part of Sudan—and head of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) in 2005, succeeding long-time rebel leader John Garang, who died in a helicopter crash. …
Last week, Jewish World Watch (JWW) co-sponsored a conference at Loyola Law School called “New Challenges to Justice: Genocide in the 21st Century.” The event began with a screening on Thursday evening of “Amae, Thamee, Ama (Mother, Daughter, Sister),” a documentary by Jeanne Hallecy about the Burmese military’s practice of using rape as a weapon…
Sometimes it seems as though the world has almost given up on the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). After decades of conflict, many in the international community looked at the resource-rich nation as a lost cause. The large proxy war, known as Africa’s first world war, may have subsided, but violence flares up regularly…
Jewish World Watch (JWW) came into being as a response to the Darfur genocide. The Darfuris remain a vital cornerstone of our work. We continue to monitor and support the refugees living in camps in Chad 15 years after fleeing their homes in western Sudan, as well as the internally displaced persons in the Darfur…
Since our first visit with Dr. Denis Mukwege, who has just been named the 2018 winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, JWW has met on multiple occasions in in the Democratic Republic of the Congo with Dr. Mukwege, and we have proudly supported his remarkable work with rape survivors at the Panzi hospital in Bukavu. …
Last Saturday, I had the privilege of attending the Convention on Myanmar’s Ongoing Genocide, organized by Jewish World Watch’s long-time partner, the Burmese American Muslims Association (BAMA). BAMA asked me to say a few words and when I arrived I was treated not only like a keynote speaker, but as a member of the family.…
The bodies of two children, a two-year old boy and a newborn girl, were dug up Sept. 16 from under the rubble left in the wake of the Saudi-led coalition’s air strikes in a civilian neighborhood in Saada province. The children were from an internally displaced family who had recently relocated to Saada’s Marran district after…
The holiday of Yom Kippur offers a time for reflection, a time to see ourselves as inextricable from a larger community, sharing responsibility not only for our own lives, but also those of others. I think of the concept of shared responsibility often in our work at Jewish World Watch — not in the promises…
Our small, extraordinarily efficient partners bringing hospital supplies into Syria are likely your best option for getting aid directly where you want it to go – to the doctors inside Idlib, and the people whose lives they are saving. We say this in the wake of an article published yesterday by IRIN, a respected news…
Myanmar, also known as Burma, continues to make international headlines … and not in a good way. Almost daily, there are developments that confirm the country’s utter disregard for human rights and humanitarian law. Despite consistent outrage from global media, scholars, leading organizations, and protesters, the United States has offered little in response. So far,…