NGOs call for renewed U.S. pressure on Sudan
An eight-member coalition of Sudan advocacy organizations has released an independent plan, entitled “Grading the Benchmarks,” calling on the Obama administration to pressure Sudanese parties to work...
View ArticleKenyans seek peace, justice after election violence
Luis Moreno Ocampo, chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Court (ICC), arrived today in Kenya to investigate the violence and killings that took place after the Dec. 27, 2007, presidential...
View ArticleObama signs LRA bill, makes history
Late Monday afternoon, President Barack Obama signed into law the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) Disarmament and Northern Uganda Recovery Act. And, in an unusual acknowledgement of the nationwide...
View ArticleICC 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...
View ArticleKony, 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...
View ArticleUganda’s Lukodi drama group enacts experiences
Judge Sang-Hyun Song, International Criminal Court (ICC) President, traveled in northern Uganda’s Gulu district, Acholi sub-region, on May 29 and 30 to speak with affected communities about the ICC’s...
View ArticleUMA hosts ‘Stopping Genocide in Sudan,’ Feb. 9
Speaker and advocate, El-Fadel Arbab will present “Saying ‘Never Again’ is Never Enough: Stopping Genocide in Darfur,” at noon on Wed., Feb. 9, at the Michael Klahr Holocaust Education Resource Center...
View ArticleRwanda genocide is marked; Ocampo Six at ICC
Three of the six Kenyans accused of inflaming the violence that left more than 1,000 people dead during post-election violence in early 2008 appeared today before the International Criminal Court...
View ArticleJoin Darfur hunger strike on Friday, noon to noon
On Friday, advocates for Darfur around the world will be uniting in a hunger strike with four objectives: Immediate protection of civilians Unimpeded humanitarian access Accountability for the crimes...
View ArticleVoices of Hunger Strike call for action, solidarity
With the most recent Darfur Fast for Life just wrapping up, we wanted to bring you statements from those who fasted in front of the White House You can view interviews, one representing each hour of...
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