The Darfur lobby was historic. But was it effective? “[Fighting For Darfur] is the most comprehensive account of the international response to the Darfur genocide available.”
More “secret” Sudanese documents
March 16, 2011 by Leave a Comment
UPDATE # 2: More literal translations thanks to @simsimt pasted below. But on the authentication issue, fellow Sudan correspondent Alan Boswell writes for McClatchy, “The north immediately denounced the documents as forgeries filled with mistakes, including incorrect titles for officials, wrong names for northern institutions, fake letterheads, and the use of names of officials who’d […]
“Secret” Sudanese government documents
March 16, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Testerday the SPLM-led Government of South Sudan of began releasing a series of documents to the media. I have copies of these allegedly internal Sudanese government documents, classified “secret”, which the SPLM say prove that Khartoum has been supporting rebels in the south to overthrow the Government of South Sudan. The Sudanese government claims the […]
Foreign Policy
March 11, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Foreign Policy‘s Colum Lynch highlights the 2008 campaign inside the UN Security Council in support of the International Criminal Court as documented in Fighting for Darfur. The campaign, spearheaded by the small nation of Costa Rica, convinced China and Libya to support a presidential statement backing the ICC: “Costa Rica had calculated, correctly, that China […]
New York Times
March 8, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Is Sudan Next? Rebecca Hamilton discusses the prospects for a peoples’ revolution in Sudan
Blogging Heads TV
March 7, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Mark Leon Goldberg from UN Dispatch interviews Rebecca Hamilton: Blogging Heads TV interview on Fighting for Darfur
The Leonard Lopate show
March 4, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Rebecca Hamilton discusses the grassroots campaign to raise awareness of the plight of Darfur’s people.
Breaking news: UNSC unaminous referral of Libya to the ICC
February 27, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Late this evening (Saturday Feb. 26) the UN Security Council unanimously referred the situation in Libya to the International Criminal Court. The full text of Resolution 1970 is not yet available, but the unanimous referral marks an unprecedented show of international support for the ICC, with the U.S. and China – for the first time […]
Understanding the Darfur Movement
February 18, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Voices on Genocide Prevention Podcast
Looming challenge for Southern Sudan: Regulating oil companies
February 11, 2011 by 1 Comment
BENTIU, SUDAN – At an oil field in southern Sudan’s oil-rich Unity state, a tar-colored sludge flowed out of the back of a truck into a man-made pool. A mile down the road, the flags of China, Malaysia, India and Sudan – the nationalities of the companies operating the field – fluttered in the breeze. […]
