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Sudanese refugees face new perils in Egypt, Israel
Today, Yolande Knell of BBC News tells the story of Darfur refugee Yahya Mohamed Idris, highlighting the hardships of an increasing number of African migrants and refugees who have fled to Egypt and Israel. After fleeing Sudan with his wife and two children, Idris said he was fired upon by Egyptian forces when smugglers left them […]
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Kony, Ntaganda, Bashir cases show ‘cost of impunity’: Moreno-Ocampo
International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo said the thousands of killings and displacements in East Africa that followed ICC arrest warrants – to Uganda’s Joseph Kony, Democratic Republic of Congo’s Bosco Ntaganda and Sudan’s Omar al-Bashir – reflect the ‘cost of impunity.’ Moreno-Ocampo made the remarks on Tuesday during a news conference at the […]
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ICC provides glimpse into historic summit
The International Criminal Court (ICC) has posted opening remarks from the Review Conference of the Rome Statute, which opened Monday in Kampala, Uganda. The historic conference, which runs through June 11, provides State Parties the first chance to make amendments to the Rome Statute since its 2002 inception, and to measure the impact of the Statute […]
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UN ends mission to protect Chad, CAR IDPs, Darfur refugees
Today, the United Nations Security Council voted unanimously to withdraw its 4,375 member force from Chad and the Central Africa Republic by December. With 3,300 military and 1,075 civilian personnel, MINURCAT was deployed to eastern Chad in 2009 to protect about 168,000 IDPs and 150,000 people in host villages, and more than 250,000 refugees from Sudan’s […]
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Worse Than War debuts on PBS tonight
(April 14) As part of its programming for National Holocaust Remembrance Week, PBS debuts the documentary “Worse Than War” tonight. The film follows author Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, a former political science professor at Harvard University, as he travels across nine countries to speak to survivors, witnesses and participants of genocide to better understand its causes […]
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