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To recap our recent campaign, #Syriasly, we created this Storify to highlight some of the coolest actions, events, and tweets. Don't know about #Syriasly? Check it out.

By Nate Wright

I arrived to hear the Sudanese speaker as a favor to a friend. I didn’t think I would be compelled to act or would found an organization that would become a national movement. I certainly never imagined that less than a year later, I’d be traveling through the Darfur refugee camps in eastern Chad with an mtvU documentary crew, listening to victims of the first genocide of the new millennia. But that was exactly where I ended up in March 2005.

This post by Jimmy Mulla, President and co-founder of Voices for Sudan, originally appeared on the Enough Project's blog on February 28.

10 Years Ago in Darfur: A Sad Day in Tina

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United Nations Economic and Social Council (UNECOSOC) president Nestor Osorio will announce a compromise this week by which Sudan will not head the humanitarian segment at the council, as previously planned, and instead take on a different role.

By Amanda Jowell, Durham Academy STAND

While my classmates and I are generally preoccupied with receiving carnations and chocolates from our friends and loved ones on Valentine’s Day, this year we shifted gears to focus on something infinitely more valuable—genocide and women’s rights. On Valentine’s Day a few weeks ago, Durham Academy’s STAND chapter hosted Hawaa Salih, a Darfur refugee and genocide survivor, where she spent a 50 minute assembly sharing her powerful story with the Durham Academy community.

By Mickey Jackson, Student Director

Syria

Syrian state media reported two mortar shell explosions near a presidential palace on T

This piece is by Laura Hackney, from Stanford STAND

With the end of the ceasefire in 2011 between the KIA (Kachin Independence Army) and the national Burmese army*, fighting in the Kachin State has escalated across the vast province. Though peace talks have taken place recently in the Chinese border town of Ruili, the effects of this violence have destroyed lives and endangered the livelihoods of thousands of Kachin people living in the region.

Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) is a key aspect in many conflict situations, and has been reported in all of our conflict areas. This week, in solidarity with survivors of SGBV and with #OneBillionRising, we are reporting on SGBV in DRC, Burma, Sudan, South Sudan, and Syria. We hope you will see the connections between all of the conflict areas. 

Warning: Some of the content below may be triggering.

 By Lindsay Woods, George Washington University STAND

Gender based violence, human trafficking, rape as a weapon of war… All of these terms are internationally recognized euphemisms that belie the horrible situations they represent.