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Wednesday, August 4, 2010 - 4:50pm

 

Tuesday, August 3, 2010 - 1:53pm

This week, President Obama and his senior advisors are expected to meet and discuss the United States’ Sudan policy.  Less than six months before South Sudan’s independence referendum, it is vital that the Obama administration respond to the crisis in Sudan with a coherent, strategic and unified policy.

Tuesday, August 3, 2010 - 9:36am

 

Friday, July 30, 2010 - 4:23pm

Earlier this week, 700 Karen villagers fled their homes in anticipation of clashes between the Burmese government and their erstwhile allies, the Democratic Karen Buddhist Army.  These attacks are the latest in the Burmese government's campaign against its citizens.  These attacks on civilians in Burma has prompted calls for a UN Commission of Inquiry into investigate whether war crimes and crimes against humanity have been commi

Friday, July 30, 2010 - 3:34pm

Last week, STAND hosted over sixty chapter leaders from around the country at STAND Camp 2010. Over four days at a retreat center in Maryland, students heard from John Prendergast, Omekongo Dibinga, Carl Wilkens, and many other anti-genocide activists and policy specialists.

Wednesday, July 28, 2010 - 3:56pm
Monday, July 26, 2010 - 3:44pm

Last month, at the International Criminal Court review conference in Kampala, Uganda, the ICC’s states parties. This conference added the crime of aggression to the court’s mandate.  Aggression joins genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes as crimes falling under the court’s prosecutorial remit. While it was always intended for the ICC to exert jurisdiction over crimes of aggression, a definition had not been agreed upon when the Rome Statute came into force in 2002.

Monday, July 26, 2010 - 11:41am

More than thirty years after Vietnamese troops ousted the brutal Khmer Rouge regime, millions of Cambodians gathered across the nation to watch as Cambodia’s UN-backed war crimes tribunal handed down its first verdict. Kaing Guek Eav, commonly referred to as Duch, was found guilty of crimes against humanity and grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions of 1949.

Monday, July 26, 2010 - 11:29am

Despite having two arrest warrants against him for crimes against humanity, genocide, and war crimes, Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir was greeted warmly upon his visit to Chad last week. President al-Bashir, greeted with a red carpet, was attending a summit of the Community of Sahel-Saharan states, joined by twelve other African heads of state.
 

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