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US Invitation to Sudanese Official Draws Wide Condemnation (Cached)	8.5.2013	Global Voices
The United States government faced a wave of criticism when news surfaced about an official invitation it has extended to a senior delegation of the Sudanese government, particularly including Nafie Ali Nafie, Sudan's ruling party controversial strongman and Presidential adviser to President Omar Hasan al-Bashir.
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‘Hope, Service, Passion': Meet Laura Boldrini, Italy's Likable Leader in Parliament (Cached)	7.5.2013	Global Voices
Italy's most recent elections swept several non-career politicians into office. Among these new players on the Italian political scene is writer and human rights activist Laura Boldrini, whose popularity during her short time in office has skyrocketed thanks to a reputation for sincerity and compassion at a time when corruption is ever present in the country's politics.
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World Digest; U.S. military plane crashes; opposition accuses Syrian regime of massacre	5.5.2013	Washington Post: World
A U.S. military refueling plane carrying three crew members crashed Friday in the rugged mountains of Kyrgyzstan, the Central Asian nation where the United States operates an air base key to the war in Afghanistan. ...
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World Press Freedom Day: Authors say protests help	4.5.2013	Twincities.com: Nation
NEW YORK—Exiled Chinese author Yu Jie joined other writers including Salman Rushdie on the 20th observance of World Press Freedom Day in
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World Digest: May 2, 2013	3.5.2013	Washington Post: World
Syrian troops backed by pro-government gunmen swept into a Sunni village in the mountains near the Mediterranean coast on Thursday, killing dozens of people, including women and children, and torching homes, activists said. ...
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Drumbeat: April 26, 2013	26.4.2013	The Oil Drum
‘Peak Fossil Fuels’ Is Closer Than You Think: BNEF Every time an iPhone is charged or an episode of "Mad Men" plays on a television, puffs of vaporized carbon join the atmosphere, products of power-plant combustion. And every year the world demands more. That era may be nearing an end, as the world approaches “peak fossil fuels,” a phrased used by Bloomberg New Energy Finance founder Michael Liebreich at the group’s annual conference. The concept of “peak oil” -- that world oil production will plateau and decline -- was popularized by a Shell Oil geologist named M. King Hubbert, who predicted in 1956 that U.S. oil production would max out in the early 1970s and gradually decline. Globally, the peak oil hypothesis has been consistently undermined by new extraction techniques: deep-water drilling, tar-sands extraction and most recently the fracking boom. The world now has enough of these fuels to last hundreds of years. Peak Oil will always be a controversial theory… always. But it’s a ...
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Racially motivated attacks on the rise in Greece, human rights groups say	24.4.2013	The Guardian -- World Latest
Figures for 2012 show 154 reported cases of racist violence, including 25 in which victims said perpetrators were police The number of racially motivated attacks increased in Greece last year, as did the severity of the violence involved, human rights groups have said. The Racist Violence Recording Network reported 154 cases of racist violence in 2012, including 25 in which the victims said the perpetrators were police. The figures were released a week after more than 30 Bangladeshi workers suffered shotgun wounds on a strawberry farm in southern Greece during a dispute with foremen over back pay. Kostis Papaioannou, the head of the National Commission for Human Rights, said the number of attacks recorded had increased 20% from the previous year. But, he noted, the true number could be much higher because many victims are afraid to come forward, fearing further mistreatment by authorities or deportation for entering the country illegally. There have been numerous reports of police, who ...
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Eritrean pilot defects after being sent to fetch defectors' jet from Saudi Arabia	22.4.2013	The Guardian -- World Latest
Latest defection from harsh Eritrean regime reported to have sought asylum on trip to collect military jet from Saudi Arabia A military pilot sent by Eritrea to Saudi Arabia to reclaim a jet stolen by two fellow officers when they flew to seek asylum has herself defected, Saudi media has reported. The pilot, who holds the rank of captain, told the authorities in Jizan province she did not wish to return to the east African country, a single-party state with no independent media and up to 10,000 political prisoners, Arab News reported. The jet has been in Saudi Arabia since October, when it was diverted to the kingdom by its two officers who wanted to seek asylum, the newspaper said on Monday. "She came to the kingdom two weeks ago to retrieve the military plane," Ali Za'le, a spokesman for Jizan governorate, was quoted as saying. "When she reached Jizan, she expressed her wish to stay here… her request is still being considered by the authorities." Diplomats at Eritrea's embassy in ...
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US report decries world crackdown on civil society	20.4.2013	Boston Globe: Latest
US report decries world crackdown on civil society
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UN: Peacekeeper shot dead in Darfur attack	19.4.2013	Twincities.com: Nation
UNITED NATIONS—The U.N. says that a peacekeeper in Sudan's state of East Darfur was shot dead and two others were injured Friday in an attack
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On death row in South Sudan: Convict hopes for a moratorium on executions	10.4.2013	Star Tribune: World

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What can William Hague do to prevent sexual violence in conflict? \| Alice Allan	10.4.2013	The Guardian -- World Latest
He has laudable aims but can the foreign secretary tackle rape in war at the G8 foreign ministers' meeting, and will countries in conflict zones support his initiative? One image stuck with me from the recent " Haguelina " visit to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). It was seeing William Hague delight a group of female Congolese activists by putting on one of their T-shirts with the words "Gender Justice" emblazoned across it. It's a far better look than his baseball cap-wearing days. But what is motivating the British foreign secretary to prevent sexual violence in conflict – and will his efforts at the G8 foreign ministers meeting on 11 April make a difference? Hague says the issue first hit him when he visited refugees in Darfur some years ago. He is appalled by the low conviction rates for perpetrators of sexual violence, often citing the Balkans, where only 30 men have been brought to justice for an estimated 50,000 rapes. He also mentions Angelina Jolie's film In the Land ...
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Five Indian U.N. peacekeepers killed in South Sudan	10.4.2013	Washington Post: World
UNITED NATIONS — A force of about 200 unidentified armed assailants ambushed a supply convoy in South Sudan on Tuesday, killing five U.N. peacekeepers and seven civilians, U.N. officials said. The ambush marked the deadliest armed attack on the United Nations since the region became engulfed in intercommunal violence between warring ethnic groups. It also raised concerns that the United Nations has become a target in that violence. ...
Uhuru Kenyatta inauguration and the inconvenient ICC truth \| David Smith	9.4.2013	The Guardian -- World Latest
Case seems to be crumbling and criticism of court increasing, which may suit the west but not the victims of election violence "Africa is on the rise," proclaimed Uhuru Kenyatta, taking the oath of office on a bible used by his father Jomo, Kenya's first president after independence from Britain half a century ago. A man accused of crimes against humanity is now the most powerful person in east Africa. The president will be standing in the dock accused of atrocities while also running the region's biggest economy. But so far, it is not Kenyatta on trial in the court of world opinion but the international criminal court, for which this is seen as a defining moment. First, Yoweri Museveni, who has ruled Uganda for 27 years, highlighted a stain that the ICC seems unable to wash away, the perception that it is an instrument of the west that is inherently biased against Africa. From Joseph Kony up, all suspects indicted by the court to date are Africans, even if investigations are being ...
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Darfur and Sudan: visionary approach needed – and Qatar can help \| Najeeb Bin Mohammed al-Nauimi	5.4.2013	The Guardian -- World Latest
Sudan needs a political framework to foster comprehensive peace. Neglecting it will doom peace and nation-building efforts The crisis in Darfur is now a decade old, yet fighting continues. More people were displaced by a surge of violence in January than in the whole of 2012. Over half the population (3.5 million Darfuris) still receives food aid – about the same amount as five years ago when the Darfur crisis was said to be at its height. Even more telling of the suffering of civilians, 1.4 million of those receiving food aid are still living in "temporary" camps . In its bid to foster peace in this region, Qatar is hosting the Doha Donors Conference on Darfur this Sunday . Such leadership should be lauded. However, if Qatar wants to see real return on its investment, those attending the conference must understand the reality and look beyond Darfur to the fundamental drivers of conflict that affect all of Sudan. The Darfur peace deal brokered by Qatar in February represents welcome ...
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Sudan frees political prisoners in first wave of amnesty	2.4.2013	The Guardian -- World Latest
Opposition confirms release of seven people day after president orders move as part of deal to end hostilities with South Sudan Sudan has freed seven political prisoners , a day after President Omar al-Bashir ordered the release of all such detainees. The amnesty came after Sudan and South Sudan agreed in March to end hostilities and resume cross-border oil supplies after coming close to war a year ago. Khartoum had accused its southern neighbour of supporting rebels trying to topple Bashir. Seven members of an opposition group were released from Kober prison in Khartoum at dawn on Tuesday, witnesses said. The prisoners had been held since January after being accused of meeting a group of Sudanese rebels in Uganda who planned to overthrow Bashir. Farouk Abu Issa, head of the National Consensus Forces, a coalition of Sudanese opposition parties, confirmed the release. "We demand all other political prisoners be released," he told Reuters. Human rights groups have accused the ...
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World Briefing \| Africa: Sudan: Political Prisoners to Be Freed	2.4.2013	NY Times: World
President Omar Hassan al-Bashir on Monday ordered the release of all political prisoners, a move cautiously welcomed by the opposition.
Abu Qatada: the law won \| Conor Gearty	29.3.2013	Guardian: Comment is Free
The judges who ruled against the Home Office aren't woolly liberals. They're just doing their job Omar Othman is a resident of this country – guilty of no crime and up to now facing no charges – whose home country wants to put him on trial in a case where the key evidence against him will in all likelihood have been procured by torture. The only reason he probably won't be tortured is because the state concerned has reluctantly promised not to follow its usual routine. If this person's name were Giles or Gary and the country Syria or Sudan, we'd have outraged Daily Mail editorials and a civil libertarian home secretary. But Othman is Abu Qatada, and the state is Jordan. In politics universal values (the rule of law, the protection of human rights, the prohibition on torture) are fine – so long as they don't get in the way of our diplomatic interests, the career ambitions of our leading politicians or the propensity of our allies to do evil. But the law doesn't work like this. It deals in ...
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Global Assault on Christians	28.3.2013	American Spectator
Religious liberty scholar Paul Marshall, journalist Lela Gilbert, and human rights lawyer Nina Shea have released a new book on international torment of Christians by Islamists and communists called Persecuted: The Global Assault on Christians (Thomas Nelson). Their launch was March 27 at the Hudson Institute, where all three are affiliated, with Dietrich Bonhoeffer biographer Eric Metaxas moderating. It’s rarely if ever fashionable among Western elites to focus on persecution of Christians. According to secular and leftist mythology, Christians are habitually the persecutors and imperialists. Victims groups are typically non-Christians. But today most Christians are outside the West, in the East or Global South, where hundreds of millions are routinely vulnerable to oppressive regimes and/or hostile movements. The largest persecuted Christian group is in China. But persecution of Christians is most ascendant against Christians in majority Muslim countries. “Churches themselves don’t ...
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South Sudan's Red Army comes of age	27.3.2013	The Guardian -- World Latest
In a landmark transition from warfare to welfare, former child soldiers in the Red Army are establishing a foundation aimed at addressing social problems in South Sudan In the early 1980s, the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) recruited and began training boys as young as 12 to fight in its battle for independence from Sudan. The child soldiers were called the Red Army. According to a 1994 Human Rights Watch report (pdf), some of the children fought alongside the SPLA. "In the first few years, the Red Army fought and was always massacred," one military officer told the human rights organisation. Participants say that, at its height, the Red Army numbered in the tens of thousands. Adam Jaafer Manoah did not need to be recruited. When he was 13, he trekked for nine months from his home in Yirol, in what is now central South Sudan, to a military training camp in neighbouring Ethiopia. "I was going to liberate my country," he said. He joined the Red Army's Zalzal (or Earthquake) ...
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