I should have posted yesterday, but I've not been well. I won't dwell on it.

The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide was signed yesterday... 60 years ago. 60 years of genocide have followed it.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was singed today... 60 years ago. It's clearky had a similar result.

Amnesty ( Read more... )

Obama, Darfur, and ICC justice ( Read more... )

I've posted before about the DRC, and it's back in the news ( Read more... )

Record Refutes Palin's Sudan Claim

By JUSTIN ROOD ( Read more... )

Make your voice heard by submitting a question for the upcoming presidential town hall debate on October 7th. Make sure presidential candidates Senators John McCain and Barack Obama are asked questions about Darfur and their plans to end genocide ( Read more... )

“Now Sudan Is Attacking Refugee Camps,”
The Wall Street Journal, September 6, 2008; Page A9
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122065894281205691.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

By Mia Farrow and Eric Reeves

At 6 a.m. on the morning of Aug. 25, Kalma ( Read more... )

While you're busy watching, they're busy lying to you.

(About the little girl who could be seen but not heard and the one who could be heard but not seen.)

Keeping up appearances for the sake of the nation is pretty important. So is making sure they're the only ones on the news.

China Calls for cease-fire in South Ossetia, "in the spirit of the ( Read more... )

France accused in Rwanda genocide

Rwanda has accused France of playing an active role in the genocide of 1994, in which about 800,000 people were killed ( Read more... )

US Congress approves legislation to bar Myanmar gems

WASHINGTON (AFP) - The US Congress on Tuesday sent legislation to President George W. Bush seeking to block import of gems from Myanmar, in a move to deprive its ruling junta of hundreds of millions of dollars in annual revenue ( Read more... )

Babies born in Fallujah are showing illnesses and deformities on a scale never seen before

By Ali al-Fadhily and Dahr Jamail, Inter Press Service

FALLUJAH, Jun 12 (IPS) - Babies born in Fallujah are showing illnesses and deformities on a scale never seen before, doctors and residents say ( Read more... )