Genocide Prevention Advisory Network

Book Review: "The Book of My Lives" By Aleksander Hermon
The Ledger
Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic. If memories of the Bosnian war are starting to fade, you'd do well to pick up a copy of Aleksandar Hemon's "The Book of My Lives." The Bosnian-born writer, who came to America through a cultural exchange program and ...

88 generation group calls on security forces to protect public life and property
Eleven Myanmar
Ko Ko Gyi, another leader of the '88 group, said the United Nations special advisor on the prevention of genocide has also issued a statement expressing concern over Myanmar's riots. The issue that reached the UN's office and the use of the term ...

Daily Nation
Kenya's top court upholds Kenyatta win in disputed election
CNN
It provides an important buffer of stability in a region that includes the fledgling Somali government and the politically tense Sudan and South Sudan. Kenya is also a major U.S. ally in the war against Islamist militants in the region and has remained ...
Kenyans await court ruling on election outcomeCNN International

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The Great Escape
Sudan Vision
The Sudanese opposition has absented itself from two major events: the agreement for the implementation of cooperation matrix between Sudan and South Sudan, and Qadarif State gubernatorial election of the new governor. Regarding the first event, the ...

Time to enforce rule of law in Myanmar
Burma News International
Now after 50 years of army induced misery, rampaging thugs were quietly brought in by the authority to slaughter Muslims in previously peaceful towns, and Myanmar finally received the attention of the Special UN Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, ...

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Good Day :Paragraphs from SJU Report! (2)
Sudan Vision
SJU was established in 1946, and it witnessed nearly ten democratic election periods for its leadership from that time till now, this gives us an indicator that the trade unionism movement in Sudan is strong and deep rooted in its modern political history.

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Voice of America
Sudan's leader Bashir to visit South Sudan since split
The Standard Digital News
Both sides still need to decide on who owns Abyei and other disputed regions. Bashir last visited Juba on July 9, 2011 to attend the ceremony marking South Sudan's separation. Around two million died in the decades-long civil war between Khartoum and ...
Juba Says Khartoum Complicit in Border RaidsVoice of America
Sudanese president to visit Juba "soon", officialSudan Tribune

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Kenyans await court ruling on election outcome
CNN International
(CNN) -- The Kenyan Supreme Court plans to issue its verdict Saturday on a legal challenge to Uhuru Kenyatta's win in the presidential election. Kenyatta, the son of Kenya's founding leader, won the presidential poll this month with 50.07% of the vote.

Sudan's NCP passes death sentences against Darfur POWs
Sudan Tribune
The people of Sudan in Darfur appeal to the Human Rights Organizations to stand firm in support of the POWs and against the violations of international laws and conventions that are committed in the Sudan under the genocidal government of the National ...

Mizzima News
Time to enforce rule of law in Myanmar
Mizzima News
Now after 50 years of army induced misery, rampaging thugs were quietly brought in by the authority to slaughter Muslims in previously peaceful towns, and Myanmar finally received the attention of the Special UN Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, ...

ICHR and IHRAAM submit recommendations from International Women's Day ...
Kashmir Media Service
Similar kinds of atrocities took place in Rwanda where acts of genocide where committed against women. Professor Lone recommended in ... Mary-Ann Mills suggested ways for preventing such atrocities against indigenous women. For all these reasons she ...

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Voice of America
South Sudan submits complaints on recent attacks to UNISFA
Sudan Tribune
South Sudanese soldiers pose on April 23, 2012 at a base near Bentiu. (Photo Hannah Mcneish/AFP). As part of a deal originally signed in September last year, the United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA) will expand its mandate from the ...
Juba Says Khartoum Complicit in Border Raids - VOAVoice of America
Bashir to make first visit to South Sudan since splitReuters

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Eurasia Review
Swiss Regret Arms Trade Treaty Impasse
Eurasia Review
The treaty would – for the first time ever – set international standards for the sale of conventional weapons, tie trade to respect for human rights, the prevention of war crimes and the protection of civilians. Every year more than 500'000 people fall ...
Human Rights First Lauds US Support for Arms Trade TreatyHuman Rights First
Optimism in UN over 1st global arms trade treatyR & D Magazine
Iran, NKorea try to block arms trade treatyCt Post

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The Province
Vancouver fashion label Obakki turns 100 per cent humanitarian
The Province
Just prior to the historic referendum of 2010 that would decide South Sudan's independence, a water emergency was declared in Lakes State. Millions of voters had made long journeys to the voting station and faced the prospect of standing in line for ...

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Landrieu foes use Senate budget vote
The Advocate
With re-election looming next year for Landrieu, some of the Louisiana Democrat's potential campaign opponents — Reps. Bill Cassidy, R-Baton Rouge, and ... But that will not stop the politicking for what is expected to be a contentious 2014 Senate ...

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Why is the International Criminal Court picking only on Africa?
Washington Post
Kofi Annan, then U.N. secretary general, cast the new International Criminal Court in epochal terms: “Until now, when powerful men committed crimes against humanity, they knew that so long as they remained powerful, no earthly court could judge them ...