Palin's Darfur Lie -- Alaskans Know Better
Governor Palin, in fact, took no leadership role to fight for Darfur divestment; she dismissed pleas for help and only changed her position in 2008.
Governor Palin, in fact, took no leadership role to fight for Darfur divestment; she dismissed pleas for help and only changed her position in 2008.
Sudan's president has given the world loud and clear warning signs of his intent to commit more mass atrocities. This situation calls out for stepped up diplomacy and multilateral cooperation.
In keeping with our tradition of highlighting diverse forms of corporate wrongdoing, we included only one financial company on the 10 Worst list.
The proud towers of Wall Street have fallen, disgorging packs of thieves and fraudsters. The mighty US suddenly exposed as the proverbial king without clothes. Uncle Sam is bankrupt.
"No African head of state should be in power for more than 10 years," declared President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda in 1986. He is still president.
CNN's Christiane Amanpour has spent much of the last 20 years covering conflicts in every corner of the world. Her new documentary, Scream Bloody Murd...
They are 'Pirates of the Caribbean' and cute little Johnny Depps they are not. This year alone, brazen Somali pirates have attacked 95 vessels. The corsairs still hold 16 ships and up to 300 sailors.
A presidential boycott of the opening ceremonies in Beijing might have proved to be a powerful additional point of leverage with an otherwise intractable regime.
Recently I participated in a year-long effort to identify practical steps that could enhance the capacity of the U.S. government to prevent and respond to genocide and mass atrocities.
My generation and our predecessors haven't been responsible caretakers. But you can be. Be resilient. Find friends who have your back. And above all, be a good ancestor. You can. And you must.
Even with availability of relief in the form of foodstuff, medicine, and fresh water, people in Darfur are dying -- being murdered -- on a scale never before seen in that region.
Press freedom in Egypt is a minefield, but there is freedom to commit suicide through the media, said Ibrahim Essa, an outspoken Egyptian journalist who faces 23 lawsuits for daring to skewer his country's regime.
Washington and activists around the world need to focus on Beijing's investment strategy -- its economic interests are undermined by its present foreign policy and offering China real alternatives.
This is a video of artists, activists and children reading the Universal Declaration of Human Rights -- send it to everyone you know.
Obama and McCain say that if elected they would work to end the genocide in Darfur. But we have yet to see either of these senators flex his political muscle to bring relief to the millions of victims suffering in Darfur today.
New indie documentary film War Child is a must-see. It tells the sad, courageous story of Emmanuel Jal, a young Sudanese man who was a child soldier during the Sudanese Civil War of the 80s, and became a successful Hip Hop artist.
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