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China: Obama's Test

Jerry Fowler | Posted 11.17.2009 | World

Read More: Darfur, Darfur Genocide, Sudanese Elections, United Nations, President Obama, Icc, Southern Sudan, China Darfur, China, Barack Obama, Save Darfur, World News

Some are describing the president's trip to China as a test of his foreign policy prowess; it's a test of his dedication to resolving one of the thorniest problems currently plaguing the international community: Sudan.

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From Idi Amin to Al-Bashir: A Critical Moment for International Criminal Justice

Rahim Kanani | Posted 11.08.2009 | World

Read More: Darfur, Idi Amin Uganda, Sudan, Africa, Criminal Court of Justice, Icc, Al-Bashir's Sudan, Uganda, Idi Amin, International Criminal Court, World News

With a number of outstanding arrest warrants and many more countries on the cusp of becoming active ICC investigations, the system of international criminal justice is at a crossroads.

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Putting an End to Impunity: The Promise of the International Criminal Court

Andrew Tarsy | Posted 08.30.2009 | World

Read More: Darfur, Icc, The Reckoning, The Hague, Crimes Against Humanity, Genocide, International Criminal Court, World News

Now, after more than a half-century of letting political leaders literally get away with murder, a new model of international justice is taking shape.

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Why The ICC Should Speak Out on Iran

Christopher Santora | Posted 08.17.2009 | World

Read More: Shirin Ebadi, The Hague, East Timor, Former Yugoslavia, Iran, Sovereignty, Desmond Tutu, Sierra Leone, Human Rights Law, Universal Human Rights, Kim Dae-Jung, Iran Protests, Human Rights, Basij, Cambodia, Icc, International Criminal Court, Rwanda, World News

Of the many criticisms levied against the international community's efforts to promote accountability, perhaps the most pervasive critique is a rather simple one -- the lack of consistency.

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UN Envoy's Term Ends, but Rebels Go On and On

Maria Burnett | Posted 08.14.2009 | World

Several members of congress support a bill that would oblige the White House to develop a detailed strategy to protect civilians from the brutal Lord's Resistance Army in east and central Africa.

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Uganda: Bashir Will Be Arrested If He Comes Here

AP | GODFREY OLUKYA | Posted 08.13.2009 | World

Read More: Sudan, Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, Uganda, Darfur Sudan, Sudan Genocide, Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir, Genocide in Sudan, Omar Al-Bashir, Omar Al Bashir, Bashir Arrest Warrant, Al Bashir Arrest Warrant, Icc, International Criminal Court, Uganda Bashir, World News

KAMPALA, Uganda — Uganda said Monday it would arrest Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir if he enters the country, an unusual stance after a summi...

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Kenya Tribunal On Violence To Be In Place By 2010

UPI | Posted 08.07.2009 | World

Read More: Luis Moreno-Ocampo, Raila Odinga, Luis Moreno Ocampo, Kenya Violence, Kenya Tribunal, Mwai Kibaki, Kenya, Foreign Affairs, Icc, Kofi Annan, Advocacy, International Criminal Court, World News

Kenya has agreed to a July 2010 deadline to set up a tribunal to try those responsible for inciting violence that killed 1,500 people in 2007, officia...

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Darfur Genocide: ICC Prosecutors Appeal Dismissal Of Al-Bashir Genocide Charges

AP | MIKE CORDER | Posted 08.07.2009 | World

Read More: Sudan, Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, Omar Al-Bashir, Omar Al Bashir, Bashir, Bashir Arrest Warrant, Icc, International Criminal Court, Darfur, Darfur Sudan, Darfur Genocide, Crisis in Darfur, Al-Bashir War Crimes, Bashir War Crimes, World News

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Prosecutors at the International Criminal Court have appealed the tribunal's decision not to indict Sudan's president o...

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Why African Leaders are Afraid of the International Criminal Court

Rev. Bekeh Utietiang | Posted 08.06.2009 | World

Read More: Icc, African Union, Al-Bashir, Nigeria, Ghana, Icc Darfur, Darfur, International-Criminal-Court-and-Bashir, International Criminal Court, World News

Innocent civilians are being murdered daily because of ethnic, religious or political affiliation and killings are being directed by the leaders, or they are in some way complacent to the murders.

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Sudan War Crimes: ICC, Moreno-Ocampo Under Increased Fire From African Leaders

Washington Post | Posted 07.31.2009 | World

Read More: Omar Al-Bashir, Foreign Affairs, United Nations, Bashir Arrest Warrant, Sudan Genocide, Omar Al Bashir, Muammar Gaddafi, Sudan, Bashir, Muammar El-Qaddafi, Icc, Jean Ping, Gabon, Advocacy, International Criminal Court, World News

When Luis Moreno-Ocampo charged Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir with war crimes last year, the International Criminal Court prosecutor was ha...

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Stopping One Man to Save Thousands

John Prendergast | Posted 07.23.2009 | World

Read More: War Crimes, Sexual Violence, Lra, Icc, U.S. Military, Africa, Children, Child Soldiers, Obama Administration, International Criminal Court, Lord's Resistance Army, Foreign Affairs, Central Africa, World News

For more than two decades, the United States has attempted piecemeal solutions to addressing the scourge of the Lord's Resistance Army.

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Spain Investigates What America Should

Marjorie Cohn | Posted 05.09.2009 | World

Read More: John Yoo, Convention Against Torture, Universal Jurisdiction, Torture, Douglas Feith, Jay Bybee, Warantless-Wiretap, Bush-Waterboarding, Alberto Gonzalez Torture, Alberto Gonzales Willia Haynes, Bush-Torture, Spain Universal Jurisdiction, Guantanamo, Warantless Wiretapping, David Addington, Water Boarding, Abu Ghraib, War Crimes, Torture Bush Adminstration, Icc, Guantanamo Bay, Slavery, Waterboarding, International Criminal Court, Spain, World News

It is the responsibility of the United States to investigate allegations of torture. The use of torture should be purged from our system, much like we eradicated slavery.

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Bashir: Darfur War Criminals Will Be Targeted

Reuters | Posted 05.08.2009 | World

Read More: Darfur, Omar Al Bashir, Omar Al-Bashir, Bashir War Crimes, Darfur Genocide, Albashir War Crimes, Bashir, Sudan, Foreign Affairs, Icc, Bashir Arrest Warrant, Darfur Sudan, Al-Bashir War Crimes, Advocacy, World News

Sudan's embattled president told a rally Tuesday that his own officials would track down war criminals in Darfur, dismissing Western attempts to bring...

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Natsios Slow Dances with Bashir

John Norris | Posted 04.30.2009 | World

Read More: Sudan, Andrew Natsios, Darfur, Omar Hassan Al-Bashir, Icc-Darfur, Icc, Icc Darfur, Omar Al-Bashir, Bashir, Genocide, ICC Sudan, International Criminal Court, Al-Bashir, Iraq, World News

The fact that the ICC would hold Bashir accountable is not the real impediment to peace in Sudan; it is the fact that Bashir keeps committing war crimes.

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Bashir At Arab League Summit Given Red-Carpet Welcome

AP | BRIAN MURPHY | Posted 04.29.2009 | World

Read More: War Crimes, Darfur, Omar Al-Bashir, Bashir Arab League, Bashir, Bashir Defiant, Icc, Sudan, Bashir Arrest Warrant, Omar Al Bashir, Sudan President, World News

DOHA, Qatar — Qatar's leader embraced Sudan's president in a red-carpet welcome Sunday as he arrived to attend an Arab Summit in his most brazen...

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The Court Speaks

John Norris | Posted 04.26.2009 | World

Read More: Sudan, Omar Al-Bashir, Icc, International Criminal Court, Darfur, The Hague-Netherlands, World News

The International Criminal Court, or ICC, has issued an arrest warrant for Sudan's President, Omar al-Bashir, on charges of crimes against humanity an...

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Bashir Visits Libya, Again Defying ICC Warrant

Reuters | Posted 04.26.2009 | World

Read More: Omar Al-Bashir, Foreign Affairs, Bashir Arrest Warrant, Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir, Darfur, Al Bashir Arrest Warrant, Bashir Icc, Libya, Omar Al Bashir, President Omar Al-Bashir, Sudan, Bashir, Icc, Darfur Sudan, International Criminal Court, Advocacy, World News

Sudan President Omar Hassan al-Bashir defied an international arrest warrant by travelling to Libya on Thursday to hold talks with leader Muammar Gadd...

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Bashir Visits Egypt In Show Of Defiance

AP | MAGGIE MICHAEL | Posted 04.25.2009 | World

Read More: Darfur, Bashir Egypt, Omar Al-Bashir, Icc, Sudan, Bashir Arrest Warrant, Foreign Affairs, Al-Bashir Arrest Warrant, Sudan President, Al-Bashir Egypt, World News

CAIRO — Egypt, one of the strongest U.S. allies in the Middle East, welcomed Sudan's president on Wednesday despite an international warrant see...

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Darfur Aid Worker Killed, Possibly Over Satellite Phone

Mail & Guardian Online | Posted 04.24.2009 | World

Read More: Fellowship for African Relief, Adam Khatir, Far Darfur, Far, Darfur, Darfur Aid Worker Killed, Aid Workers, Aid Workers in Danger, Sudan Aid Ban, Bashir, Icc, Foreign Affairs, Attack on Aid Workers, Darfur Aid Worker, Aid Workers Attacked, Darfur Aid Workers, Sudan, World News

Armed men have shot dead a Sudanese worker for a Canadian aid group in Darfur in the latest of a string of attacks on international organisations in S...

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Al-Bashir Visits Eritrea, Defies ICC Warrant

AP | MOHAMED OSMAN | Posted 04.23.2009 | World

Read More: Sudan, Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, Omar Al-Bashir, Omar Al Bashir, Bashir, Bashir Arrest Warrant, President Omar Al-Bashir, Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir, Al Bashir Arrest Warrant, Al-Bashir, Eritrea, Icc, Darfur, Asmara/Eritrea, World News

KHARTOUM — Sudan's president traveled to Eritrea Monday, choosing one of Africa's most politically isolated nations for his first trip abroad si...

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Obama's Move on Darfur/Sudan

Raj Purohit | Posted 04.10.2009 | World

Read More: Darfur, Nato, Icc, President Omar Al-Bashir, Khartoum, Sudan, General Wesley Clark, Obama, International Criminal Court, World News

Bringing systemic change to Sudan will take focused, long term diplomacy but the crisis in Darfur and threat to refugees needs a rapid response from the President Obama.

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U.S. Embassy In Sudan Warns Americans To Leave As Fears Of Violent Backlash Grow

AP | SARAH EL DEEB | Posted 04.10.2009 | World

Read More: Sudan, Darfur Sudan, Sudan Genocide, Sudan Civil War, Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir, Omar Al-Bashir, Omar Al Bashir, Icc, U.S. Embassy, u.s. Embassy Sudan, Darfur, World News

KHARTOUM, Sudan — The U.S. Embassy in Sudan authorized nonessential staff and family to leave the country, saying Tuesday that protests against ...

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Al-Bashir Indictment: Why Africans Are Divided Over The Decision

Obakeng Mfaladi | Posted 04.06.2009 | World

The ICC is not seen as a free and fair court in Africa and decisions like the indictment of Omar Al-Bashir, as right as they are, tend to be seen as biased toward the continent. They will do more harm than good if not handled more diplomatically.

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An Arrest Warrant for al-Bashir, Could Bush Be Next?

Jamal Dajani | Posted 04.06.2009 | World

Read More: Palestinian Territories, The Hague, Omar Al-Bashir, Gaza, George W. Bush, Guantanamo, Media, Abu Ghraib, Darfur, Iraq War, Sudan, Middle East, Genocide, Icc, Iraq, Israel, Torture, International Criminal Court, World News

The court's decision grimly spelled out the suffering of the people of Darfur, a history full of murder, torture, rape, pillage and deliberate attacks on civilians. Could the ICC's decision set a precedent?

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Al-Bashir's Revenge

Mia Farrow | Posted 04.05.2009 | World

Read More: Darfur, Omar Al-Bashir, Mia Farrow, Sudan, Darfur Charities Kicked Out, Humanitarian Crisis, Icc, Darfur Sudan, World News

al-Bashir expelled 13 key humanitarian agencies from Sudan. Armed men have forcibly shut down aid compounds, seizing computers, cameras, personal phones and vehicles.

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