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Top Obama Advisors to Hold Pivotal Sudan Meeting Tomorrow

John Norris | Posted 09.28.2009 | World

Read More: Darfur, Human Rights, Sudan, Foreign Affairs, Africa, Genocide, US Foreign Policy, Barack Obama, Omar Al-Bashir, J. Scott Gration, International Criminal Court, Sudan Special Envoy, World News

The discussion tomorrow will center on the balance of carrots and sticks that the administration will use to press for change in Sudan and how to deal with an independent southern Sudan.

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Possible War Crimes in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Navi Pillay | Posted 11.10.2009 | World

Read More: War Crimes, Sexual Violence, Rape, Human Rights, Democratic Republic of Congo, United Nations, Bosco Ntaganda, Summary Executions, International Criminal Court, World News

Government forces engaged in large-scale pillage as well as arbitrary killings and sexual violence against the very people they were supposed to be protecting.

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International Criminal Court Prosecutor Eyeing War Crimes In Afghanistan

AP | EDITH M. LEDERER | Posted 11.09.2009 | World

Read More: Afghanistan War Crimes, Afghanistan War, Afghanistan, United Nations, Nato Forces, Taliban, International Criminal Court, World News

UNITED NATIONS — The prosecutor for the International Criminal Court said Wednesday he is collecting information on possible war crimes by NATO ...

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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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Can You Hear Me Now?

Omri Marcus | Posted 09.24.2009 | World

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Army, Humor, Satire, Parody, Mobile Phones, Idf, Cellphones, Israeli Airstrikes, Israel, Comedy, Israelis Palestinians, Arab-Israeli Conflict, FUnny Commercial, Israle Army Wall Commercia, Israel Wall, Israel Video, Israeli Wall Commercial, Troops Play Football, Funny Videos, World News, Cellcom Israel Commercial, Israel Football Wall, Commercial Football Israel, Controversial Israeli Commercial, Controversial Commercial, Israeli Controversial Cell Phone Ad, Palestinian West Bank, Best Commercials, Israeli Army, International Criminal Court, Israeli Patrol, Israeli Commercial, Cellcom Ad, Cell Phone Commercial, Controversial Cellcom Ad, Cellcom Commercial Wall, Cellcom Ad Wall, Cellcom Ads, Cellcom Commercial Controversy, Israel Commercial, Israeli Cell Phone Commercial, Controversial Cell Phone Ad, Cellcom Israel Video Wall, Israeli Commercial Wall Football, Wall Commercial, INternational Criminal Court Rules Wall Illegal, Israel Cellcom Commercial Wall, World News

Palestinians were furious to discover that now not only Fox News ignores their side -- but now even during commercial breaks are they invisible.

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Clinton Suggests US Could Join International Criminal Court

AP | Posted 09.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: u.s. International Criminal Court, War Crimes Court, Clinton War Crimes, Hillary Clinton International Criminal Court, Clinton International Criminal Court, Clinton Africa, Hillary Clinton, Clinton War Crimes Court, International Criminal Court, Politics News

NAIROBI, Kenya — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says it is a "great regret" that the United States is not a member of the Intern...

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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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Cellcom Ad Sparks Controversy In Israel (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Posted 08.14.2009 | World

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Israle Army Wall Commercia, Israeli Commercial, FUnny Commercial, Cellcom Israel Video Wall, Israeli Controversial Cell Phone Ad, Israel Video, Wall Commercial, Cell Phone Commercial, Israeli Army, Commercial Football Israel, Controversial Cellcom Ad, Cellcom Commercial Wall, Israel Wall, Israel Commercial, Israeli Patrol, Controversial Commercial, Israel Cellcom Commercial Wall, Israel Football Wall, Funny Videos, Palestinian West Bank, Best Commercials, Israel, Israeli Commercial Wall Football, Controversial Cell Phone Ad, INternational Criminal Court Rules Wall Illegal, Troops Play Football, International Criminal Court, Cellcom Ad, Cellcom Ad Wall, Israeli Wall Commercial, Israeli Cell Phone Commercial, Controversial Israeli Commercial, Cellcom Israel Commercial, Cellcom Commercial Controversy, Cellcom Ads, World News

A new Israeli cell phone commercial has sparked anger from Palestinians and left-wing Israelis, ABC reports. The Cellcom ad features Israeli soldie...

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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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The Reckoning -- Interview with Director Pamela Yates

Robyn Hillman-Harrigan | Posted 08.13.2009 | World

Read More: Darfur, Pamela Yates, Nuremberg Trials, Human Rights, Sudan, Human Rights Watch, Human Rights Watch Film Festival, Darfur Sudan, International Criminal Court, World News

The film was stark and penetrating. It discussed the worst war crimes and crimes against humanity of our time, but did so in a rational, rights based justice context.

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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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Africa's Longest War Still Taking Lives

Maria Burnett | Posted 07.20.2009 | World

Read More: Democratic Republic of Congo, Human Rights Watch, Central-African-Republic, Lords-Resistance-Army, Lra, Resolve Uganda, Uganda, International Criminal Court, World News

In Congo last December, Human Rights Watch documented how small groups of rebels rounded up civilians in several villages and hacked to death entire families as they gathered for their Christmas meal.

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The Next Catastrophe in the Congo

Colin Thomas-Jensen | Posted 06.20.2009 | World

Read More: Rwanda Genocide, War Crimes, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Congo Rape, Democratic Republic of Congo, Africa, Eastern Congo, Genocide, War, United Nations, Conflict in Congo, Congo Violence, Congo, Crimes Against Humanity, International Criminal Court, World News

The U.N. will undermine its already limited credibility with frustrated Congolese civilians if this offensive against the FDLR goes ahead as planned.

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End the Burma Exception and Refer the Military Junta to the International Criminal Court

Andrea Friedman | Posted 06.18.2009 | World

Read More: Daw-Aung-San-Suu-Kyi, Aung San Suu Kyi, International Criminal Law, Burma, Myanmar, International Criminal Court, International-Criminal-Tribunal-for-Rwanda, Womens Rights, Burma Junta, World News

Today sovereignty can no longer be a free pass to arbitrarily arrest, torture, rape and kill one's own people. The military junta in Burma should be no exception.

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Is Darfur Genocide?

Betwa Sharma | Posted 06.18.2009 | World

Read More: Darfur, War Crimes, Genocide, United Nations, Obama, Crimes Against Humanity, International Criminal Court, World News

Darfur is lost in the wilderness of the law behind genocide. Whoever emerges the strongest will dictate, for the books, what happened in the region.

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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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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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Yugoslavia Genocide Suspect Arrested In Kenya

The Standard | Cyrus Ombati | Posted 04.26.2009 | World

Read More: Kenya, Croatia, Goran Hadzic, Genocide, Africa, Serbia, Yugoslavia, Yugoslavia Genocide, Ratko Mladic, International Criminal Court, Mombasa, World News

A Yugoslavia genocide suspect was yesterday arrested in a dramatic raid on his posh hotel in Mombasa in what police believe is a crucial operation....

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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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