NEW YORK, Dec 20 (Reuters) – The five countries that contribute the most funding to the International Criminal Court are seeking to cap the court’s budget for the third year in a row, according to diplomats involved in the negotiations. The budget negotiations are taking place in New York this week as part of the […]
Archives for 2011
Magnum Foundation interview
December 18, 2011 by Leave a Comment
On November 2nd 2011, photographer Cedric Gerbehaye spoke with Rebecca Hamilton, journalist and author of Fighting for Darfur: Public Action and the Struggle to Stop Genocide. Cedric and Rebecca worked together in Sudan during the months leading up to the 2011 referendum. Sudan in Transition, a Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting project, features their reportage […]
Jody Williams on Fighting for Darfur
December 1, 2011 by Leave a Comment
“A masterful feat of original research and reporting, Fighting for Darfur is an authoritative account of the impact of the first sustained citizens’ movement against genocide. With Hamilton’s fierce determination to get beyond self-congratulatory slogans and taken-for-granted assumptions about what is required to save lives at risk, she provides insights that will be invaluable for concerned citizens, human rights advocates and policymakers alike for years and years to come. Essential reading for anyone who wants to help build a better world.”
— Jody Williams, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, founding coordinator of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines
Litigation Overview: Status of same-sex marriage cases
December 1, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Nov 17 (Reuters) – California’s Supreme Court on Thursday said that the original sponsors of Proposition 8, a ballot initiative prohibiting same-sex marriage in California, can defend the initiative in court. The state court was responding to a request from the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, which had asked whether state law authorizes the sponsors […]
Al Jazeera, The Stream
December 1, 2011 by 2 Comments
I was a guest host of AJE’s social media news show, The Stream, again this week. The topic was one close to home for me – Australia’s policy towards asylum seekers. The discussion followed an announcement by the Australian government last week that it will start to issue bridging visas to enable some of the […]
Third Annual Achebe Colloquium on Africa
November 11, 2011 by Leave a Comment
The third annual Achebe Colloquium on Africa will be held at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA from 3-4 December, 2011. The themes of the conference will include: The Arab Spring: Challenges to Democratization and Nation Building; Darfur: Toward sustainable peace; and Southern Sudan: Obstacles facing the world’s newest nation. On Day two the conference […]
Clinton School of Public Service
October 10, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Hosted by: Clinton School of Public Service, University of Arkansas “Fighting for Darfur: Public Action and the Struggle to Stop Genocide“
After 9/11, An East Village Mosque Reaches Out To Its Neighbors
September 13, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Rebecca Hamilton THE LOCAL, EAST VILLAGE For much of America’s Muslim community, the 9/11 terrorist attacks changed their relationship with the rest of American society – for the worse. Broad government surveillance and discriminatory law enforcement policies, combined with an increased suspicion of Muslims by the general public, left many feeling that daily worship had […]
Inside Colin Powell’s Decision to Declare Genocide in Darfur
August 17, 2011 by Leave a Comment
In September 2004, then-U.S. Secretary of State, Colin Powell, became the first member of any U.S. administration to apply the label “genocide” to an ongoing conflict. Interviews I conducted for Fighting for Darfur: Public Action and the Struggle to Stop Genocide revealed that despite a thorough investigation into the atrocities in Sudan’s western region of […]
Radio Free Europe
August 5, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Following the announcement by President Obama yesterday of the creation of an Atrocities Prevention Board, I did this interview with Radio Free Europe. Rebecca Hamilton, a fellow at the New America Foundation and author of a book on U.S. foreign policy toward Darfur, called the creation of the Atrocities Prevention Board an “historic first step.” […]
