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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.

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

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.