by Meg Black | Nov 2, 2020 | Conferences
Commemorating the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists The International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists is observed on November 2 in remembrance of two French journalists, Claude Verlon and Ghislaine Dupont, who...
by Christopher Tuckwood | Sep 30, 2020 | Conferences, General News, South Sudan, Team Announcements, Technology, Una Hakika
We recently expanded our Una Hakika misinformation management project to Kakuma Refugee Camp and nearby areas of northwestern Kenya. Our goal is to support refugees and host communities in stopping the spread of harmful rumours and misinformation that contribute to...
by Drew Boyd | Aug 31, 2020 | General News, Situations of Concern
The Chinese government is currently implementing a campaign of persecution against the Uyghur minority group in the Xinjiang region using a disturbing system of mass surveillance, concentration camps, forced labour, and ideological “re-education” alongside other...
by Yuriko Cowper-Smith | Jun 30, 2020 | General News, Myanmar, Situations of Concern
The recent killings of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and George Floyd in the United States have catapulted the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement back to international prominence. BLM is calling attention to the persistence of systemic anti-Black racism in the United...
by Christopher Tuckwood | Jun 20, 2020 | General News, Hagiga Wahid, Kenya, Situations of Concern, South Sudan, Uganda
In honour of World Refugee Day, all new donations that we receive over the next week (from now until the end of June 26) will be reserved specifically for supporting the Hagiga Wahid project in Uganda. Click here to donate. As we join people around the world in...
by Christopher Tuckwood | May 31, 2020 | General News, Hagiga Wahid, Kijiji Cha Amani, Una Hakika
Anyone who has followed the Sentinel Project’s work in recent years will know that we’ve focused a lot on misinformation management in our efforts to prevent and mitigate atrocities. As our team has taken the model developed in Kenya and replicated it together with...
by John Green Otunga | Mar 31, 2020 | Hagiga Wahid, Situations of Concern, South Sudan
In 2011, two years after gaining independence, South Sudan plunged into a disastrous civil war that was marked by ethnic massacres, sexual violence that included children as its victims, the recruitment of child soldiers, and other atrocities that claimed hundreds of...
by Yuriko Cowper-Smith | Mar 27, 2020 | Conferences
As the COVID-19 virus affects more and more countries around the world – 199 countries to date – questions are starting to be raised about the preparedness of the Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh for the onset of the pandemic. Although cases have...
by Yuriko Cowper-Smith | Jan 17, 2020 | Conferences
Over a million Rohingya refugees currently live in the Cox’s Bazaar region of Bangladesh. Although Rohingya people have fled into Bangladesh due to state-sanctioned genocide in Myanmar since the 1970s, the largest and latest exodus began in August 2017, when 742,000...
by Yuriko Cowper-Smith | Oct 10, 2019 | Conferences
As the humanitarian crisis in Bangladesh continues unabated, and as Rohingyas face a precarious future in Myanmar, in the lead-up to the federal election, Canadian foreign policy becomes even more critical for concerned observers. On October 7th, the first official...
