The U.S. has this wonderful piece of legislation called the Freedom of Information Act – commonly known as FOIA. Through it, people can request to have government documents made publicly available – subject to certain exceptions. Those who assess the requests made under FOIA have discretion to balance the competing interests of transparent government with […]
Archives for April 2009
If you were in Sudan, you couldn’t see this
April 8, 2009 by Leave a Comment
Friends of mine in Sudan have been emailing to tell me that this website is not accessible. People who are trying to submit questions from inside Sudan get told that the page cannot be displayed. Given the range of sites that are still accessible inside Sudan right now, I’m not willing to assume I’ve been […]
Update on podcasts
April 8, 2009 by Leave a Comment
Thanks to those of you who have started submitting some really thoughtful questions for my upcoming interviewees. My interview with the ICC Prosecutor is scheduled for April 27, so I should have the podcast of your questions up and out to you about 24 hours after that.
Taylor is not being tried by the ICC!
April 8, 2009 by Leave a Comment
What is so difficult to understand about this?? Yes it is true that the trial of former Liberian President, Charles Taylor, is taking place at one of the ICC’s courtrooms in The Hague – but he is being tried by the Special Court for Sierra Leone. The Christian Science Monitor is the object of my […]
About time Australia!
April 3, 2009 by Leave a Comment
So I know this is supposed to be all about Darfur – but forgive a brief detour to my Australian home – to celebrate another small step in the long road towards chipping away at 220 years of racism in Australia. Today the Australian government led by Prime Minister Rudd, signed the UN Declaration on […]
Difficulties in NATO – AU cooperation
April 3, 2009 by Leave a Comment
Check out this interesting piece on genocide prevention by Tod Lindberg in the Wall Street Journal. His reflections on trying to get some semblance of cooperation and coordination between the various regional and international organizations who could, collectively, have pulled together the resources needed for civilian protection in Darfur, fits depressingly well with everything I […]
Clarification on GI-Net “1500” number
April 2, 2009 by Leave a Comment
Last week, former U.S. Special Envoy to Sudan, Andrew Natsios, used statistics from the Genocide Intervention Network to write in Foreign Affairs that “according to the human rights group Genocide Intervention Network, about 1,500 people were killed in Darfur in all of 2008, 500 of them Arabs killed by other Arabs. (The rest were Africans […]
Review of Mamdani’s book: Saviors and Survivors
Professor and Provocateur: Factual inaccuracies undermine Mamdani’s thesis