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Jan 14, 2025 | 
foreignaffairs.com | Zongyuan Liu |Michael Horowitz |Sarah Yager |John Prendergast
If Donald Trump’s second term is anything like his first, the incoming U.S. president will not advance the cause of human rights. His foreign policy is more likely to harm democratic values around the world than it is to protect them. But as bleak as the next four years may become, the past four have hardly been a boon for human rights. President Joe Biden, who came into office promising that his administration would be different, ended up chipping away at these ideals himself.
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Jul 31, 2024 | 
allafrica.com | John Prendergast
Millions of Sudanese lives hang in the balance in what is by far the world's largest humanitarian catastrophe. So much is happening in the world, however, that most people are either unaware of this crisis or avert their eyes. This phenomenon of turning away led me to watch the Oscar-winning The Zone of Interest.
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Jul 31, 2024 | 
almendron.com | John Prendergast
In the next four months, two and a half million Sudanese could die of hunger-related causes. That’s twice as many as Pol Pot’s regime starved in Cambodia over four years, and two and a half times as many as died in the 1983–85 famine in Ethiopia that inspired the charity recording “We are the World”. As Martin Griffith, the United Nations’ top humanitarian official, recently put it: “I don’t think we’ve ever had this kind of number at risk of famine”.
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Apr 29, 2024 | 
ca.news.yahoo.com | Don Cheadle |John Prendergast
As the 21st century’s first genocide unfolded in the middle of the Sahara Desert 20 years ago, we were part of an unprecedentedly large coalition of citizens pressing the U.S. government to act. Sudan’s western region of Darfur was being ripped apart by militias collectively known as the Janjaweed (“devils on horseback”). Hundreds of thousands were killed, and millions rendered homeless.
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Mar 2, 2024 | 
martinplaut.com | John Prendergast |Martin Plaut
February 27, 2024A humanitarian and human rights catastrophe is unfolding in Sudan. With nearly 11 million people already displaced—three million of them children—the country is now home to the most people rendered homeless by conflict worldwide, and its populace sits poised on the brink of a major famine. A collapsing medical system renders the war’s true death toll unknown. Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, is being destroyed block by block.
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Feb 28, 2024 | 
radiotamazuj.org | John Prendergast
How America can stop money launderers from funding Africa’s worst civil war
A humanitarian and human rights catastrophe is unfolding in Sudan. With nearly 11 million people already displaced—three million of them children—the country is now home to the most people rendered homeless by conflict worldwide, and its populace sits poised on the brink of a major famine. A collapsing medical system renders the war’s true death toll unknown. Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, is being destroyed block by block.
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Feb 27, 2024 | 
almendron.com | John Prendergast
A humanitarian and human rights catastrophe is unfolding in Sudan. With nearly 11 million people already displaced—three million of them children—the country is now home to the most people rendered homeless by conflict worldwide, and its populace sits poised on the brink of a major famine. A collapsing medical system renders the war’s true death toll unknown. Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, is being destroyed block by block.
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Feb 27, 2024 | 
foreignaffairs.com | John Prendergast
A humanitarian and human rights catastrophe is unfolding in Sudan. With nearly 11 million people already displaced—three million of them children—the country is now home to the most people rendered homeless by conflict worldwide, and its populace sits poised on the brink of a major famine. A collapsing medical system renders the war’s true death toll unknown. Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, is being destroyed block by block.
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Dec 20, 2023 | 
advisorperspectives.com | John Prendergast
Advisor Perspectives welcomes guest contributions. The views presented here do not necessarily represent those of Advisor Perspectives. Every day, there’s an announcement about a new AI application that promises to revolutionize wealth management. They sound fantastic. Many are. They can help you run your practice more effectively and improve your life. But AI applications are only one piece of the client engagement puzzle. And they shouldn’t be your first stop for building digital engagement.
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Dec 14, 2023 | 
natlawreview.com | John Prendergast
The National Labor Relations Board has announced that the effective date of its new “joint employer” final rule is postponed by two months. The announcement coincides with several legal challenges to the rule, previously scheduled to become effective on Dec. 26, 2023. The extended effective date is Feb. 26, 2024. The final rule has significant implications for employers.
