The following was in yesterday’s New York Times. Interested to hear views on this debate.
July 17, 2008
Op-Ed Columnist [link]
Prosecuting Genocide
By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
Many aid workers and diplomats suffered a panic attack when the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court sought an arrest warrant this week for the president of Sudan, Omar Hassan al-Bashir, for [...]
A coalition of human rights, legal and union activists has succeeded in preventing a Chinese ship from delivering 77 tons of weapons and ammunitions to Zimbabwe’s army via the South African port of Durban. South African President Thabo Mbeki had earlier said that the government was “powerless” to stop the transfer, but activists obtained a [...]
Following Steven Spielberg’s resignation as Artistic Director of the Beijing Olympics, a number of leading advocacy groups have released a joint statement calling on China ‘to use all the influence at its disposal to press the Sudanese government to a) permit the swift, full and effective deployment of UNAMID; b) implement the North-South peace deal [...]