Events

Enough project sister organization, Campus Progress, will be hosting their 2009 national conference, starting next week on July 7th.

Find out all the event details and learn how you can attend here.

Enough project sister organization, Campus Progress, will be hosting their 2009 national conference, starting next week on July 7th.

Find out all the event details and learn how you can attend here.

Enough project sister organization, Campus Progress, will be hosting their 2009 national conference, starting next week on July 7th.

Find out all the event details and learn how you can attend here.

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RSVP by Monday, July 20 to rsvp@ned.org or (202) 378-9690

Damanga Coalition for Freedom and Democracy Invites you all to come to participate in
a rally to support Darfur and the ICC - "International Criminal Court." For Justice and Peace in Sudan.
 
Also to:
 
-Urge the US government, United Nations, European Union, African Union, Arab Leagues,
to support the ICC and the arrest warrant against Omar al-bashir, and the other suspects for war Crimes,
Crimes against Humanity and Genocide.
 
- AN IMMEDIATE deployment of the 26.000 UNAMID Peace Forces to Darfur with full Mandate, Helicopters,Logistics and necessary supplies needed.
 
- PRESS Sudan Government to allow all the 16 Humanitarian Organizations back to Darfur without any delays or conditions.
 
- STOP torturing prisoners of Darfur and free them Immediately

- STOP TAKING BLACK SLAVES

- STOP Immediately the resettlement of Arab Janjaweed Militia Families in Darfur, and turn back all lands confiscated to their owners.

- STOP attacking the Refugees in their Camps in Chad and Darfur.

- APPLY strict trade sanctions "Embargo" against China Oil companies, Russia ,Indian, and all Foreign

Companies Investing in Oil in Sudan, Importing Weapons and doing Business with the genocidal Regime.

WHERE : Starts from the Lafayette square in front of the White House. Time at 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm.

Walk to the State Department From 2:35 pm, arrive at 2:50 pm. Ends at 4:00 pm.

$20.00 GENERAL ADMISSION

6:00 PM: Happy Hour with Fashion Exhibitors & Subcontinental Music Performance

8:30 PM: DUELING FASHION SHOWS

9:30--11:00 PM: v:shal kanwar and a Congolese DJ spinning African, South Asian electronica & fusion.

BUY NOW: www.going.com/duniya 

BENEFICIARY ORGANIZATIONS:

En Avant Congo

The Washington-D.C.-based 501(c)3 non-profit En Avant Congo (“Forward, Congo”) was formed in 2003 by a group of Congolese and Americans to promote U.S. civic engagement in ending the conflict in D.R. Congo and funding services for survivors of mass rape by combatants. The group supports Centre Olame, a model institution providing services for survivors in Bukavu, South Kivu – the heart of Eastern Congo’s warzone.

Asian Pacific Islander Domestic Violence Resource Project

DVRP’s mission is to address and prevent domestic violence in Asian/Pacific Islander communities in the Washington, DC metropolitan area, including South Asian communities. DVRP’s goals include ensuring that abused A/PI women have access to culturally and linguistically responsive resources in order to make their own life choices; raising awareness about the problem of domestic violence; and uniting A/PI communities against domestic violence.

Participate in a special activist conference call Friday, July 31 at 12:00pm EDT to hear representatives from Enough and our partners discuss this week's hearings in the House and Senate.

Dial-in Number: (218) 339-3600
Participant Access Code: 487075#

The Public International Law and Policy Group is pleased to invite you to a roundtable discussion entitled

 Facilitator:

Vanessa Jiménez, Director, Southern Sudan Project, PILPG, Counsel to the SPLM/A in the Abyei Arbitration 

RSVPs and direct questions about the event can be sent to

Jennifer Christian, jchristian@pilpg.org

The Culture Project will host a screening of The Reckoning: The Battle for the International Criminal Court. Following the film, director Pamela Yates, Christine Chung, a former senior prosecutor at the ICC, and Paul Van Zyl, co-founder of the International Center for Transitional Justice, will take part in a panel discussion and answer questions from the audience.

Judson Memorial Church

(Washington Square South/Thompson St.)

New York, New York

To purchase tickets, call 1-800-838-3006 or visit http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/73828

 Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will travel to the Sub-Saharan Africa Trade and Economic Cooperation Forum in Nairobi, Kenya, and then travel on to South Africa, Angola, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria, Liberia, and Cape Verde.

 Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will travel to the Sub-Saharan Africa Trade and Economic Cooperation Forum in Nairobi, Kenya, and then travel on to South Africa, Angola, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria, Liberia, and Cape Verde.

The partners of the Great Lakes Policy Forum cordially invite you to attend the:

146th GREAT LAKES POLICY FORUM 

Thursday, August 6, 2009 from 9am - 11am 

"Rwanda: Africa's Biggest Success Story?" 

Special Guests

Leon Morse, Director, Media Sustainability Index (Africa), IREX

Jonathan Elliott, Director, Africa Advocacy, Human Rights Watch

Raymond Gilpin, Associate Vice President, Sustainable Economies Centers of Innovation, United States Institute of Peace

Location

Refreshments will be served. All are welcome at the meeting. If you think of anyone else who should be invited, please pass his or her name along to us. Journalists may participate, but discussion is not for attribution. If you have any questions or feedback about the forum, please contact Singto Saro-Wiwa at Search for Common Ground: 202-265-4300. Kindly RSVP to glpf@sfcg.org by August 5th at the latest.