The second day of the Lemkin Summit was largely focused on developing advocacy skills, in preparation for meeting with policymakers on the Hill. Because, as JWW’s advocacy director, I’m pretty familiar with this, the highlight of my day was connecting with my friend Joseph Mulala Nguramo, who was a presenter on one of the panels…
I’m currently attending the Lemkin Summit at American University in Washington, D.C., organized by the Enough Project. Saturday was the first day of the conference, focusing on the importance of targeting ill-gotten gains and the networks of corruption as a means of preventing future mass atrocities. The highlight of the day was a simulation exercise…
In the last week alone, more than 10,000 Syrian civilians have fled the fighting in the ISIS-held areas of Hajin enclave in Deir ez-Zor governorate in northeast Syria for Al-Hol camp in the Syrian Kurdish YPG-controlled Hassakeh region. Those fleeing this last ISIS enclave — a sliver of land along the Euphrates River — report…
The protests in Sudan have entered their sixth week. Instead of fading into oblivion under the weight of President Al-Bashir’s iron-fisted response, they have gathered momentum, evolving into a countrywide social change movement. The protests began in several cities on the outskirts of Khartoum in response to the elimination of a bread subsidy, that caused the…
Things were not looking good for the future of democracy in Congo yesterday, after African Heads of State convened at a summit in Addis Ababa to discuss the DRC’s contentious elections. While, at first, African leaders seemed unwilling to stand up to Congolese President Joseph Kabila and to question the duplicitous tactics of the Electoral…
U.S. President Donald Trump signed into law vital bipartisan legislation named for the late Holocaust survivor and Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel, the White House announced in a statement, on Jan. 15 – days before Holocaust Remembrance Day. The ELIE WIESEL GENOCIDE AND ATROCITY PREVENTION ACT (GAPA), approved unanimously by the Senate in December has been a cornerstone…
Sudan has been roiled by protests and concomitant violence since mid-December. What began as popular disapproval over steep hikes in bread prices, which tripled overnight due to a government cut of a vital bread subsidy, has now metamorphosed into growing anti-government rallies demanding President Omar al-Bashir’s resignation. The protests have spread to engulf towns and…
At around 3 a.m., Jan. 10, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, following numerous delays, Congo’s electoral commission finally declared Felix Tshisekedi the victor in the country’s contentious presidential election. While the declaration of a winner who is not Joseph Kabila – the dictatorial kleptocrat who has been president for the past 18 years…
The Congolese people are bracing for the results of the recent presidential election. Following a two-year delay in holding the highly anticipated election to unseat President Joseph Kabila, the people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) finally got the chance to go to the polls on Dec 30. The lead up was not…
Dear Friend, In so many ways, we have just closed the book on an extremely difficult year. The Rohingya, Darfuris, Sudanese and South Sudanese, as well as the people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Syria and now Yemen, all have needed our support more than ever, and throughout the past year you made clear that you…