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Justice In The Congo & Great Lakes Region: A Legal Framework

Justice In The Congo & Great Lakes Region: A Legal Framework

IPS Conference Room 1301 Connecticut Avenue, NW, 6th Floor, Washington, DC

Impunity, lack of accountable and injustices have reigned in the Great Lakes Region for the past 16 years. The United Nations published a report that calls for the establishment of an international mechanism that will deliver justice to the people of the region who have suffered at the hands of armed groups and regional militias and armies. Experts from the American Bar Association and the National Lawyers Guild will weigh in on this matter by proposing a way forward for both local and international stakeholders in delivering justice to the people of Congo and the Great Lakes Region of Africa.

African Union 10 Years Later: Accomplishments and Challenges

African Union 10 Years Later: Accomplishments and Challenges

Open Society Institute 1730 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, 7th Floor, Washington, DC

Please join us for this lively and critical discussion celebrating the 10th anniversary of the African Union. In our quest to assess its challenges, success stories and pitfalls days ahead of the AU Summit, we will analyze and review issues of African political sovereignty, Peer Review Mechanism, AU as a member of the G20, Diaspora / Region 6, Gender Issues, and Conflict Resolution.

Film: Apocalypse Africa: Made In America

Film: Apocalypse Africa: Made In America

IPS Conference Room 1301 Connecticut Avenue, NW, 6th Floor, Washington, DC

The Institute for Policy Studies hosts a screening and discussion to give context to the recent U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit and connect it to the history and current policy of the U.S. supporting and enabling tyranny across Africa.

Film: Hands Up Don’t Shoot Our Youth Movement

University of District of Columbia 4200 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Blg 41, Room A-03, Washington, DC

A screening followed by a bridge building discussion with filmmaker Ralph L. Crowder III and with a live Hip Hop performance by Son of Nun.

Conference: Pan-Africanism in the 21st Century: Challenges and Prospects

Ralph J. Bunche Int'l Affairs Center, Howard University 2218 Sixth Street, NW, Washington, DC

The Institute for Policy Studies and Revival of PanAfricanism Forum convene to evaluate the state of the global African movement, Black people in the U.S. as a domestic colony, and why African/Black community control is the only solution.

Congo 20 Years After Mobutu Sese Seko: U.S. Neo-Colonialism Continues

Institute for Policy Studies 1301 Connecticut Avenue NW, 6th Floor, Washington, DC

The Institute for Policy Studies in collaboration with Friends of the Congo take a retrospective look at the twenty years since the overthrow of the US backed and maintained dictator of then Zaire, Mobutu Sese Seko.

Eritrea & Geopolitics in The Horn of Africa

Institute for Policy Studies 1301 Connecticut Avenue, NW, 6th Floor, Washington, DC

An historic panel discussion about the Horn of Africa uniting in the United Nations General Assembly to support lifting sanctions against Eritrea.

Film: Cubanas, Mujeres en Revolución

True Reformer Building, Lankford Auditorium 1200 U Street, NW, Washington, DC

For International Women's Day 2019 is the DC premeire of a new film about the continuous role of women in the Revolution, both in the guerrilla struggle and in the construction of the new Cuban society, portrayed through the testimonies of heroines.