Five Stories You May Have Missed This Week
Posted by Mara Getz on Jun 28, 2013
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.
This week, Voice of America published an article giving accolades to
Zereda AIDS Information Center group in Yambio, South Sudan for their
encouragement to members of their community to get tested and seek
treatment. Additionally, the article is a call to action to increase
the creation of such groups.
On June 26, President Obama embarked on his 2nd trip to sub-Saharan
Africa, AllAfrica highlights advocacy leaders' hopes for Obama's trip,
including encouraging him to prioritize development during his trip.
They places emphasis on the reassurances by aides and National
Security Advisor Ben Rhodes that the president will be making
democracy and food security a priority,
"The president has made it a priority to support the
consolidation of democratic institutions in Africa so that Africans
are focused not just on democratic elections, but institutions like
parliaments, independent judiciaries and strengthening of the rule of
law."
International Press Service reports that in Zimbabwe, an NGO focused
on increasing women’s participation in politics, Women in Politics
Support Unit , or WiPSU, has launched “Vote for a Woman Campaign” in
an effort to create gender equality. One of their goals is to ensure
that widows are granted their new constitutional right to inherit
their late husbands’ property by getting women into Parliament to
implement the provisions.
Cecelia Jamasmie provides an account of the troops that are being
deployed to Katanga by the United Nations peacekeeping mission in the
Democratic Republic of Congo, or MONUSCO, necessary for the security
of the country's copper mining hub. The U.N. considers the growing
rebel attacks and threats a serious concern and recently stated,
“At least 53 children were at risk of being re-recruited by the
M23 rebel group in Nyiragongo Territory, North Kivu Province and that
the same was believed to be happening in the rest of the country.”
Armin Rosen of The Atlantic describes his visit to the eastern
Democratic Republic of the Congo and outlines the conflict in his
piece The Origins of War in the DRC. He details the complexity of
ongoing war and the trauma the Congolese people experience. He writes,
“The DRC's conflict might be the deadliest since World War II,
and one of world's worst active crises. But it also may be the most
obscure -- the most anonymous.”
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