Eight hours incommunicado in the custody of Sudan’s security agents was plenty enough to unsettle me earlier this year. And with a foreign passport I could be fairly assured that deportation was the worst outcome on offer. The 14 Darfuri journalists, lawyers and human rights …

Big week for the ICC. A few things to keep an eye on:

The Center for Global Development has just put out a hugely useful report laying out the various options for dealing with debt in a post-referendum Sudan. Sudan Debt Dynamics: Status Quo, Southern Secession, Debt Division, and Oil—A Financial Framework for the Future is the best …

“Is mass revulsion to mass atrocities sufficient to change American foreign policy? Fighting for Darfur tells you why ‘It ain’t that simple’ in a multipolar world with a…

“ Moving between American college campuses, the halls of the UN and African Union, the policy battles within Washington DC, the International Criminal Court in The Hague, and…

It seems everyone in the blogosphere has an opinion of Wikileaks latest release of classified U.S. State Department cables. Adding one more voice to the mix, I come to this as someone who has spent the past four years going through the tedious process of …

#UPDATE: Adam Kanzer from Domini Social Investments, who is also testifying at the hearing today, will be speaking specifically to the Ruggie framework referenced below. Tune in at 2pm EST (10pm Sudan)

“Bec Hamilton, an intrepid reporter and researcher, has collected and analyzed an impressive amount of original material about one of the least understood foreign policy stories of the…

There are an estimated 20,000 Sudanese in my homeland of Australia – and the vast majority are refugees from southern Sudan and thus eligible to vote in the upcoming referendum on southern independence. But when polling centers opened last week, it was tough luck for …