Due Diligence in Darfur

Human Rights First, 11.13.2009

Non-profit, nonpartisan international human rights organization

By Ann-Louise Colgan Perpetrators of atrocities in Darfur--like anywhere else--are dependent on at least indirect support from other countries. The g...

U.S. Must Lead U.N. to New Action on Darfur

Human Rights First, 11.12.2009

Non-profit, nonpartisan international human rights organization

By Julia Fromholz Three weeks ago, the Obama administration announced its comprehensive policy toward Sudan, relying on both incentives and pressures...

Obama Gets Good Grades at the United Nations

Stephen Schlesinger, 11.03.2009

Author and Adjunct Fellow at the Century Foundation

Obama has compiled an extraordinary list of accomplishments already at the UN. Let's begin with his decision to appoint a new ambassador, Susan Rice, who actually believes in the UN.

Now We Need Presidential Leadership

Jerry Fowler, 10.30.2009

President of the Save Darfur Coalition

President Obama's new Sudan strategy lays out a path for the administration to follow, and provides a basis for the advocacy community to hold the administration accountable.

Sudan's Interlocking Crises (VIDEO)

John Norris, 10.24.2009

Executive Director of Enough

Days after the release of the Obama administration's new Sudan policy, I appeared on Aljazeera with Tahir el-Faky of the Darfuri rebel group Justice and Equality Movement and Mahmood Mamdani.

Foreign Affairs Roundup

Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka Rebuffet, 10.23.2009

Editors of Simple Intelligence

The Past Two Week's Top Stories in International Affairs: The Real Deal with Iran The 5+1 (UN Permanent Security Council Members plus Germany) were a...

Sudan Score Card

John Norris, 10.22.2009

Executive Director of Enough

Over the last nine months, the Sudan policy review has taken on something of a mythical air.

Will Obama Finally Pay Attention to Sudan?

John Prendergast, 10.22.2009

Co-Founder of the ENOUGH Project

Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Joe Biden talked tough when they were presidential candidates, but this administration's day-to-day diplomacy on Sudan has been troubling.

Testing Obama's Sudan Policy

John Norris, 10.21.2009

Executive Director of Enough

The Obama Darfur policy spells out some ambitious goals including a definitive end to conflict and genocide in Darfur and implementation of the 2005 North-South peace deal.

The Fierce Urgency of Implementation: Obama's New Sudan Policy

John Prendergast, 10.19.2009

Co-Founder of the ENOUGH Project

The U.S. must lead internationally in developing a coalition of countries that can help the people of Sudan find a just and sustainable peace, and the administration will be rightly evaluated by whether it meets its goals.

Sudan's State-Sponsored Pyromania

John Prendergast, 10.19.2009

Co-Founder of the ENOUGH Project

This op-ed appears today in the Los Angeles Times. The Khmer Rouge's Pol Pot had hundreds of thousands of people dig their own mass graves before t...

Sanctions, Not Smiley Faces

Human Rights First, 10.19.2009

Non-profit, nonpartisan international human rights organization

By Julia Fromholz Seven months and a day after President Obama appointed a Special Envoy for Sudan, his Administration has finally agreed on a policy...

Dumb Luck and a Call to Action

Lora Somoza, 10.14.2009

Author of "Bliss in the Bedroom," Love and Sex Columnist

Deemed the world's worst humanitarian crisis, the suffering in Darfur has not yet come to an end. We can help make that end possible.

Nobel Hope and Reality in Africa

John Prendergast, 10.09.2009

Co-Founder of the ENOUGH Project

Peace activists are hoping that President Obama, with the added luster of a Nobel Prize, will wade more deeply into resolving the conflicts in Sudan and the Congo, the deadliest in the world.

The War in Darfur Is Not Over

John Prendergast, 10.07.2009

Co-Founder of the ENOUGH Project

The reality of Darfur's continuing strife does a disservice to the ongoing efforts to keep this issue burning brightly for the policymakers and diplomats who have so far failed to help end the crisis.

There Should Be More Pro Athletes Like Tracy McGrady

David A. Love, 10.06.2009

Writer and human rights advocate based in Philadelphia

McGrady is a pro basketball player-turned-human rights activist. He visited refugee camps in Darfur, and he has devoted considerable time off the court to various humanitarian efforts.

Avoiding Darfive

Lee Bycel, 09.30.2009

Executive Director of the Redford Center

I just returned after spending 10 days in Eastern Chad, observing Rosh Hashanah in Darfuri refugee camps. There are no Jews there, but there are millions of humans struggling to survive.

Rachel Maddow Spotlights T-Mac's Darfur Dream Team

John Prendergast, 09.29.2009

Co-Founder of the ENOUGH Project

Last week on MSNBC's The Rachel Maddow Show, NBA star Tracy "T-Mac" McGrady and I had the chance to discuss the ongoing crisis in Darfur.

New Year: Is There Hope for the Darfuri People, for Us?

Lee Bycel, 09.28.2009

Executive Director of the Redford Center

Why did I spend Rosh Hashanah in Darfuri refugee camps in Eastern Chad? Why would a rabbi welcome the Jewish New Year in a place where there are no Jews?

Top Obama Advisors to Hold Pivotal Sudan Meeting Tomorrow

John Norris, 09.28.2009

Executive Director of Enough

The discussion tomorrow will center on the balance of carrots and sticks that the administration will use to press for change in Sudan and how to deal with an independent southern Sudan.

Israel Diary: A Tale of Two Visits

Arianna Huffington, 09.26.2009

JERUSALEM -- Early Friday morning I visited the Bialik Rogozin School, an extraordinary example of what is possible with real leadership. The school has 750 students from 48 countries, most of them very poor. When director Karen Tal took over three years ago, the school was plagued by outbreaks of violence and dilapidated surroundings. But the school I toured was immaculate, with new computers throughout, and bright, smiling children everywhere. I left Bialik Rogozin energized and inspired. So it was particularly jarring to drive straight to the West Bank to see the Jewish settlements that have become a flashpoint of the stalled peace process. The security wall. The roadblocks and barbed wire. The checkpoints and "buffer zones." The large, sprawling, and very permanent-looking Israeli settlements carved out on Palestinian land. No wonder Palestinians feel like strangers in their own land. READ MORE Israel Diary: Shimon Peres on Peace, Obama's Tough Love, and Working in the Shadows Israel Diary: Hyper-Alert Security Guards and Hyper-Creative Tech Geeks