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Diana Jenkins founded the Sanela Diana Jenkins Foundation, an international humanitarian relief organization, and established the Sanela Diana Jenkins Human Rights Project at UCLA Law School, which advances the cause of international justice.

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I Was Born in the Land of Blood and Honey

0 Comments | Posted March 29, 2012 | 11:58 AM

Angelina Jolie has made a powerful movie about the Bosnian conflict that I will never go see. Her film In the Land of Blood and Honey tells the story of a Bosnian woman who is now a captive in a prison camp overseen by a Serbian soldier who was once...

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It's Time for Justice to Take New Forms in the Balkans

0 Comments | Posted August 2, 2011 | 6:20 PM

This is what international justice looked like Friday, July 29: Jovan Divjak, the 74-year-old Bosnian army general, reunited with his wife after five months apart. Held since March in Vienna, Mr. Divjak flew home to Sarajevo after an Austrian court ruled that it would be impossible for him to receive...

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Politics and Justice: The Outrageous Case of Jovan Divjak

0 Comments | Posted July 26, 2011 | 5:12 PM

VIENNA -- It is time for Jovan Divjak to come home. For five long months, this hero and humanitarian has been unable to leave Vienna and return home to Sarajevo while Austrian courts sort out bogus Serbian accusations against him.

As they did with Ejup Ganic last year,...

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Ratko Mladic Capture Helps Balkans Move Forward

4 Comments | Posted May 27, 2011 | 1:50 PM

It surprised almost no one that Ratko Mladic, the most wanted man in Europe, turned up Thursday living in a quiet Serbian village an hour's drive from Belgrade. But the very fact that the army general accused of ordering the massacre of thousands of civilians was captured and will stand...

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Libyan Slaughter Cannot Go Unanswered

0 Comments | Posted March 3, 2011 | 11:15 AM

The International Criminal Court's commitment to investigate crimes against humanity in Libya is sending a strong message that the world's most powerful nations are increasingly willing to stand up for the world's most vulnerable people.

For only the second time in its history, the United Nations Security Council last week...

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Ejup Ganic Case Distracts World From Real War Crimes

0 Comments | Posted July 29, 2010 | 11:09 AM

The legal travesty inflicted upon former Bosnian leader Ejup Ganic is a chilling reminder that truth continues to be a casualty long after war is over. Although the politically motivated war crimes case against Dr. Ganic was rejected this week, the allegations represent a broader campaign by ultra-nationalist...

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Civil War or Genocide? Ask the Mothers of Srebrenica

0 Comments | Posted July 15, 2010 | 4:18 PM

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Civil War or Aggression? Civil War or Ethnic Cleansing and Genocide?

What's the defining difference?

How can I possibly answer that question without screaming, crying, raging...?

For the first time, I can say with a heavy heart and tears in my...

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U.S. Should Go Slow on Haiti Troop Withdrawal

0 Comments | Posted March 1, 2010 | 11:10 AM

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - For hundreds of thousands of Haitians whose homes were pulverized in the Jan. 12 earthquake, the next three months may well shape the success - or failure - of long-term recovery.

Spring in Haiti will see the onset of the rainy season, the waning of interest by...

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Among the Building Blocks in Haiti: Tetanus Shots and Prosthetics

0 Comments | Posted January 25, 2010 | 6:38 PM

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- In less than a week on the ground here, volunteer medical teams from the Jenkins-Penn Haitian Relief Organization have treated more than 4,000 patients and distributed more than 20,000 pounds of desperately needed supplies -- from antibiotics and wound care kits to 4,000 water filters. Another 270...

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Don't Let Haiti's Natural Disaster Become a Man-Made Tragedy

0 Comments | Posted January 22, 2010 | 4:03 PM

The chaotic streets of Haiti feel eerily familiar to me, even though this is my first trip to Port-au-Prince. The crumbled buildings, the crying children and the general sense of despair reminded me almost immediately upon landing here this week of my homeland in Bosnia. The depredations visited upon Bosnia...

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Don't Forget Bosnia

0 Comments | Posted December 15, 2009 | 11:00 AM

The war in Afghanistan, and the debate over how to best fight it, is understandably at the center of attention in the White House these days.

As the world's leading power, the United States carries the burden of responsibility to oppose genuine threats to world peace. As an advisor...

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