Sudan’s President, Omar al-Bashir, recently traveled to two nearby African nations and faced no consequences, despite the fact that he is wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for counts of genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. On May 8, 2016 Bashir traveled to Djibouti for the inauguration of President Ismail Omar Guelleh. One…
Last month, during Genocide Awareness and Prevention Month, and the 101st commemoration of the Armenian Genocide, the Wall Street Journal ran a full-page ad for a group that denies the Armenian genocide. The events that unfolded in the Ottoman Empire from 1915-1916 are widely recognized as genocide by scholars, activists, and museums alike. The United States…
Burundi has been experiencing waves of protests, targeted killings, mass violence, and displacement since the lead up to controversial elections in July, 2015 in which President Pierre Nkurunziza was elected to a third term in office—something the constitution and peace accords that ended a more than decade-long civil war prohibited. In the aftermath of the…
Jewish World Watch (JWW) expresses its deep concern and disappointment with President Salva Kiir Mayardit’s recent announcement to divide South Sudan’s current 10 states into 28. This plan stands in direct contrast with the peace agreement signed on August 26th and threatens to lead the country towards further conflict. With ongoing ceasefire negotiations by both…
When girls three years old and younger are brutally raped and sometimes left permanently damaged for the rest of their lives, impunity cannot be the answer. In a town called Kavumu, about 40 kilometers north of Bukavu, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) young girls are facing a constant threat that they will be abducted…
JWW Board Member Diana Buckhantz and Director of Policy and Programs Mike Brand are traveling in the Democratic of Republic of Congo’s eastern provinces to work with survivors of the country’s decades-long conflict, which has claimed nearly six million lives. They are meeting with JWW’s partners on the ground, with whom JWW works to…
JWW Board Member Diana Buckhantz and Director of Policy and Programs Mike Brand are traveling in the Democratic of Republic of Congo’s eastern provinces to work with survivors of the country’s decades-long conflict, which has claimed nearly six million lives. They are meeting with JWW’s partners on the ground, with whom JWW works to…
Today, Amnesty International took an important step in the continued fight for conflict free minerals by filing a petition asking the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia to reconsider an earlier decision affecting Section 1502 of the 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. Section 1502 requires that companies submit…
Jewish World Watch welcomes the signing of a peace deal that is set to end the violent civil war that has plagued South Sudan since December 2013. Though President Salva Kiir initially stalled, now the two warring factions have endorsed the agreement. However, we remain cautious: both sides have expressed reservations about the deal,…
This month, President Obama will make his fourth trip to Africa, visiting Kenya for the Global Entrepreneurship Summit and Ethiopia for meetings with Ethiopian and African Union (AU) leaders. This will likely be his last visit to the continent as president—and the first time a sitting U.S. president has visited the AU headquarters in Addis…