Here at Enough, we often swap emails with interesting articles and feature stories that we come across in our favorite publications and on our favorite websites. We wanted to share some of these stories with you as part of our effort to keep you up to date on what you need to know in the world of anti-genocide and crimes against humanity work.
18 members of the main rebel group fighting Sudan's president Omar Hassan al-Bashir were sentenced to death in a Sudan court Thursday. Malik Agar, former governor of Sudan's southern Blue Nile state, and Yassir Aman, the secretary general, of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N), and 16 others were sentenced for murder and staging a war against the state. The conviction of the SPLM-N leaders comes weeks after the African Union adjourned talks between the Sudanese government and the rebel group which ended in a deadlock.
In Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, street children are exposed to the regular violence and abuse that takes place in the city. War Child UK is a humanitarian organization that helps children affected by war ensuring that children's voices are heard and not stifled by the ongoing conflicts within their country. The rights group has teamed up with Congolese rapper Didjak Munya to give children the opportunity to tell their stories through music. Munya and War Child UK have hosted rap battles and joined youth in the recording studio where the children use hip hop as a tool to spread their messages.
Lauren Wolfe, an award-winning journalist, traveled with Nobel Women's Initiative to Congo to meet with survivors of sexualized violence and the groups working to help them. Women who are raped in Congo often have nowhere to turn for help as the majority of men who victimize women go unpunished, and the stigmatization of rape leaves some women not wanting to speak out against their perpetrators. Wolfe provides the stories of three women of varying ages who share their experiences ...
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