Media Interviews and Questions
Jonathan Hutson
Director of Communications
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Nov 30, 2011
Following the Government of Sudan’s brutal attacks on innocent civilians, leading anti-genocide and human rights groups from the Sudan Now campaign are calling for the United Nations Security Council to demand that the Government of Sudan immediately cease conducting offensive military flights in and over the states of South Kordofan and Blue Nile.
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Nov 21, 2011
American high school and university students have written letters to Darfuri refugees, which will be hand delivered this Thanksgiving by the Darfur Dream Team Sister Schools Program. The Sister Schools Program works with U.S. schools and donors to support education for the Darfuri refugees and build connections between American students and their Darfuri peers.
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Nov 21, 2011
The Obama administration’s recent deployment of U.S. Special Forces advisers to assist in the fight to end the Lord’s Resistance Army is a critical first step towards achieving that objective, but much more needs to be done to help end Central Africa’s longest running war and heal the devastated region, a coalition of rights groups said in its third quarterly report on the administration’s policy towards dealing with the crisis.
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Nov 15, 2011
The Satellite Sentinel Project, or SSP, has released new imagery corroborating reports that the Government of Sudan has bombed two refugee camps in South Sudan. DigitalGlobe satellite imagery captured 14 November and analyzed by the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative for SSP reveals the Government of Sudan’s military aircraft at its El Obeid airbase in North Kordofan – including Antonov planes consistent with those eyewitnesses described as bombing the Guffa and Yida refugee camps across the border in South Sudan on 8 and 10 November.
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Nov 11, 2011
The Satellite Sentinel Project, or SSP, has confirmed that the Sudan Armed Forces, or SAF, is upgrading air bases recently captured from rebels in Sudan’s Blue Nile border area, which increases Sudan’s capacity to carry out airstrikes along the border and in neighboring South Sudan.
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Nov 3, 2011
The Obama administration should use the lead-up to Congo’s election this month as an opportunity to press the Congolese government into reforms that will help end conflict in the country’s restive east, according to a new Enough Project report.
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Nov 1, 2011
Sudanese government forces and militias are killing and raping civilians in Blue Nile state, according to refugees who fled the fighting. These alarming new details about the ongoing conflict in Sudan are revealed in a new Enough Project field dispatch based on interviews with refugees along the Ethiopian border.
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Oct 26, 2011
The international community must temporarily redirect the political pressure it is placing on Somalia’s Transitional Federal Government (TFG) to compel it to open humanitarian access to thousands of famine victims in its areas of control, according to a new policy paper by Ken Menkhaus for the Enough Project.
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Oct 20, 2011
The Obama administration’s deployment of military advisers in operations aimed at ending the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) is an important first step, but needs to be accompanied by broader actions by the U.S. and other countries to enhance the chances for success, according to a new Enough Project paper.
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Oct 13, 2011
The Satellite Sentinel Project (SSP) has corroborated eyewitness accounts and United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR) reports alleging that the Government of Sudan’s Central Reserve Police (CRP) unit has engaged in the unlawful abduction, detention, and extra-judicial killing of civilians in South Kordofan, Sudan.
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Oct 12, 2011
The international community must take a new approach to peace in Darfur by abandoning its piecemeal approach to Sudan, and demanding a comprehensive peace process that will address overarching national grievances, according to a new Enough Project policy report.
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Oct 4, 2011
In a new report, the Enough Project calls on the U.S. to continue to scale-up the engagement on Congo that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pledged after visiting the war-ravaged eastern region of the country in 2009.
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Oct 3, 2011
NBA star and humanitarian Tracy McGrady made a commitment to scale up direct online communication between U.S. students and children in Darfuri refugee camps. McGrady works with the Darfur Dream Team Sister Schools Program to foster cross-cultural understanding and engage U.S. youth in advocacy and fundraising to improve the quality of education for their Darfuri counterparts. A member of the Clinton Global Initiative, or CGI, McGrady made the pledge at the recent CGI’s annual meeting.
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Oct 3, 2011
With nearly 4 million people in need of food aid and 750,000 at risk of starvation, Somalia’s rulers should be tried for crimes against humanity for using food as a weapon to control the population and for personal gain, according to a new Enough Project paper by Somalia expert Matt Bryden.
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Oct 3, 2011
The City of St. Petersburg has passed a resolution changing its purchasing practices on electronics to favor products that are free of conflict minerals that are fueling the world's deadliest war in the Congo.
