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Interviewing Vice President Riek Machar while covering the South Sudan referendum for The Washington Post
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Sudan has made amends. Let’s take it off the terrorism list.
The U.S. government is poised to remove Sudan from the list of state sponsors of terrorism, based on an agreement that requires Khartoum to pay $335 million to American victims of terrorist attacks. The deal recognizes that Sudan has met … Read more >>
New Zealand Responds to Covid-19
OKIATO, New Zealand — Since the start of the novel coronavirus pandemic, New Zealand has drawn global attention for the effectiveness of its response. But in recent weeks it has experienced an uptick in infections — even prompting President … Read more >>
Sudan’s New Minister of Justice
Nasredeen Abdulbari was in the Georgetown University Library, working on his doctoral dissertation, when he received a call on his phone. “You’ve been nominated to be the Minister of Justice,” the man on the other end told him. Fifteen … Read more >>
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Beyond Takedown: Expanding the toolkit for responding to online hate
Rebecca J. Hamilton (with Molly K. Land), Beyond Takedown: Expanding the Toolkit for Responding to Online Hate, in Propaganda and International Criminal Law (Predrag Dojčinović, ed.)(2019). The current preoccupation with ‘fake news’ has … Read more >>
Atrocity Prevention in the New Media Landscape
Journalists have traditionally played a crucial role in building public pressure on government officials to uphold their legal obligations under the 1948 UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide. But over the past twenty … Read more >>
User-Generated Evidence
Rebecca Hamilton, User-Generated Evidence, Col. J. Transnat'l L. (forthcoming) Around the world, people are using their smartphones to document atrocities. Smartphone apps designed to allow Users to record material that will meet … Read more >>
Voices from Fighting for Darfur
