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Can Art Save the Congo?
Posted by Enough Team on Jun 25, 2012

This op-ed, authored by Congolese advocate and artist Omékongo Dibinga, originally appeared in GlobalPost. Amid the chaos and ongoing conflict in eastern Congo, Dibinga focuses on the resilience of the Congolese people and their use of art not only as a tool of expression but also of resistance. The piece features the "I Am Congo" video profile of Congolese artist Petna Ndaliko.

A Glimmer of Hope for the Women in Congo
Posted by Enough Team on May 30, 2012

Tomorrow, May 31, marks Margot Wallström's last day serving as the U.N.'s Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict, a position she has held since April 2010. Wallström has been a prominent figure in the fight against sexual violence in areas throughout the world, including Congo. She authored this op-ed, originally featured in the Huffington Post, which highlights the “I Am Congo” video profile of Congolese human rights lawyer Denise Siwatula.

Watch I Am Congo -- Because We're Not in It
Posted by John Prendergast on May 1, 2012

On our second trip together to Africa last Thanksgiving, we decided to go to the place where the deadliest war in the world was occurring: the Congo. The entire time we were there, we traveled with an extraordinary Congolese guy named Fidel Bafilemba. His video profile is the first in a new video series being launched by the Enough Project, called “I Am Congo.”

How to Catch Kony in 2012
Posted by John Prendergast on Apr 25, 2012

It’s a long way from watching and sharing a video to actually catching a war criminal and ending a war.  But if the records that have been broken for videos watched and children abducted are to mean anything, then that gap must be bridged. After an unprecedented push to pluck him from anonymity, can Joseph Kony - newly infamous leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), whose ranks over the last 25 years have been filled with child soldiers - be brought to justice in 2012?

The Crisis in the Sudans: The Urgency of U.S.-China Cooperation
Posted by John Prendergast on Apr 13, 2012

This op-ed co-authored with actor George Clooney originally appeared on Time.com.

On the surface, our recent trip to the rebel-held areas of Sudan’s Nuba Mountains hauntingly echoed earlier visits to Darfur and South Sudan. A huge group of people—targeted by their government in Khartoum because of their ethnicity, the rich land they live on, and their resistance to dictatorship—are being serially bombarded, raped, abducted, and starved in this case for the second time in the last two decades. The culprit remains the same as well: the Khartoum regime led by General Omar al-Bashir, wanted by the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity. This human rights catastrophe within Sudan is unfolding alongside a virtual state of war between Sudan and South Sudan, playing itself out in the border oilfields not far from the Nuba Mountains.