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The ‘Year of Climate’ in International Courts
A backgrounder on how climate cases came before four international courts, with a summary of issues each court has been asked to address, offers a one-stop resource to refer to as opinions are issued in the weeks and months ahead. Read … Read more >>
Where is the ICC Prosecutor?
The silence emanating from the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Karim Khan, is growing louder by the hour. Three full days after Hamas perpetrated atrocities inside Israel and took civilian hostages into Gaza, Khan has … Read more >>
Facebook Beware
In its public-facing quarterly financial reports, Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, labels all countries in Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East as the “Rest of World.” Although one-third of Facebook’s … Read more >>
Scholarship
Platform-Enabled Crimes
B.C. L. Rev (2022). Online intermediaries are omnipresent. Each day, across the globe, the corporations that run these platforms execute policies and practices that serve their profit model, typically by sustaining user engagement. … Read more >>
Governing the Global Public Square
Harv. Int'l L. J. (2021). Social media platforms are the public square of our era – a reality that has been entrenched by the widespread closure of physical public spaces in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. And this online space is global … Read more >>
User-Generated Evidence
Rebecca Hamilton, User-Generated Evidence, Col. J. Transnat'l L. (2018) Around the world, people are using their smartphones to document atrocities. Smartphone apps designed to allow Users to record material that will meet evidentiary … Read more >>
Voices from Fighting for Darfur
Perceptions from outside the U.S.
Hi everyone
Another “ongoing conversation” I’m hoping to start this week is about how the U.S. based Darfur advocacy movement is perceived by people outside the U.S. I’ve asked a few friends and colleagues from around the world who were selected as 2007 Global Young Leaders on Genocide Prevention, to contribute their thoughts.
To start us off, here are a couple of questions I asked Rosebell Kagumire, a Ugandan journalist. Rosebell blogs at:
http://ugandanjournalist.vox.com
Is there an advocacy movement for Darfur in Uganda?
There’s no movement for Darfur in my country. This can be explained by many things. First that the people don’t believe that their leaders can have much effect on what is going in especially through the AU as the body has done little to stop or to criticise Bashir. Also they feel that African leaders even if they were willing to fight for the people of Darfur, Bashir’s power backing is not in Africa but in the Middle East and China. Also may be because most of them are busy watching their own ruins for instance many in northern Uganda have suffered for the last 23 years.
From what you know of the U.S.-based advocacy movement for Darfur, what kinds of people do you think are involved in it?
I have seen people of all walks of life. Ordinary people donating money and people like Farrow fasting for days. But I think these people wouldn’t be there advocating if a few people never stood up to educate the US about what difference they can make through their leadership to the situation in Darfur. I think leadership and power to make difference gives the people in the US to come out and advocate for their leaders will listen or will be forced to listen. This is what is lacking in the case of my country.