History, Evolution, and the Darwin Debate
Breaking: Human Rights Watch:
Just hours ago, the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an arrest warrant for the President of Sudan, General Omar Hassan al-Bashir, on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur.
This is the first time in history that the ICC has indicted a sitting head of state.
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Spiked 7 November 2008
Darfur: the dangers of celebrity imperialism
In August this year celebrity campaigner Mia Farrow met with the
private security firm Blackwater to explore the possibility of a
freelance mission to Darfur. Despite ABC News describtion of
Blackwaters controversial history and allegations of murdering
civilians in Iraq, Farrow maintained that Blackwater has a much better
idea of what an effective peacekeeping mission would look like than
Western governments
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Sudan: Darfur, ICC And the New Humanitarian Order
http://allafrica.com/stories/200809190281.html
OPINION
Mahmood Mamdani
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Computational Biochemist Uncovers A Molecular Clue To Evolution
ScienceDaily (Sep. 10, 2008) — A Florida State University researcher who uses high-powered computers to map the workings of proteins has uncovered a mechanism that gives scientists a better understanding of how evolution occurs at the molecular level.
Published on Tuesday, September 9, 2008 by CommonDreams.org
Darfur Deception
An Open Letter to Human Rights Colleagues Concerned About Darfur…and Iraq
Mia Farrow Stages Online ‘Darfur Olympics’
Genocide-Funder Sudan Enjoys Close Trade Relations with China
Crisis Darfur
A conversation with Mia Farrow and Bernard-Henri Lévy, moderated by Dinaw Mengestu
And last but not least, there is one weapon which we have pleaded for, Mia Farrow in America and myself in Europe, for months and months. There is one actor in this terrible game, who has huge power, and can do a lot if it wants. This actor is China. China is the one [that] provides the weapons which I saw and which made these big craters from bombs. China provides the weapons. China buys a big portion of the oil. China protects the Sudanese regime in the Security Council of the United Nations. So the real pressure, the most efficient pressure should be and is still today the pressure on China. And we have a tool, as you know, on China. We have a real weapon, which would prove to be very efficient if we tried. It has been tried for a few days about Tibet. It has already given results: the resuming of the dialogue with the Dalai Lama. It should be implemented [against] the Darfur tragedy, [and it] is the weapon of a boycott of the Olympic Games. We cannot accept the very idea of Olympic Games—the Olympic ideal is supposed to be a peace ideal—in a country which is guilty of this disaster, which is guilty of these areas of villages where you have only the beasts left and the few people left being treated themselves as cattle.
From R-G
June 15, 2008
By ELIZA GRISWOLD
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The Comprehensive Peace Agreement — which ended the north-south war
but did nothing to stop the conflict to the west in Darfur — was among
the Bush administration’s few major foreign-policy successes. Now it’s
coming undone, and the collapse is beginning in Abyei, a hot little
village built up into a town by oil companies. The population grew to
30,000 from 5,000 as its residents returned after two decades of war.
Around a buzzing market of tin-roofed lean-tos and U.N. food
warehouses, people were building huts and hanging up tarps. But on the
main road, the armies of north and south were mobilizing T-72 tanks
and amassing more soldiers.
Sudan: ‘The Entire Darfur Region is a Crime Scene’
Rights advocacy groups are intensifying calls for the arrest of war crimes suspects as the U.N. Security Council discusses the situation in Darfur with the Sudanese authorities in Khartoum this week.
Darfur remains in peril
The Darfur region of Western Sudan has been involved in a deadly conflict since 2003.
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UN urged to demand arrest of Darfur war crime suspects
UNITED NATIONS (AFP) — International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo on Thursday pleaded with the UN Security Council to demand Khartoum arrest two Darfur war crimes suspects.
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US candidates appeal over Darfur
More than 2 million people have been displaced by the Darfur conflict
The three main US presidential candidates have made a rare joint statement, appealing for an end to the conflict in Sudan’s Darfur region.
Sudan: Bombings in Darfur Cast Doubt On Resolving Crisis
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Darfur more desperate than ever
Nairobi – As donor countries open fresh talks in Olso Monday on helping the crisis-ravaged people of Sudan’s Darfur province, aid for the region is more urgently needed than ever.
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Mia Farrow calls for Olympic opening boycott
HONG KONG (Reuters) – U.S. actress Mia Farrow expressed solidarity with Tibetans but said she was focused on pressuring China over its support for Sudan and called on world leaders to boycott the Olympics opening ceremony.
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Farrow Enters Hong Kong to Protest China-Sudan Ties
By Maureen Fan
Washington Post Foreign Service
Thursday, May 1, 2008; 2:41 PM
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The educated guesswork of estimating Darfur deaths
17 hours ago
UNITED NATIONS (AFP) — When a top UN official released a new estimated death toll of 300,000 for Darfur this week, he reignited a lively debate about just how accurate such statistics are.
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60,000 Darfur refugees detail horrific memories in petition
Last Updated: Friday, April 25, 2008 | 4:01 PM ET Comments11Recommend22CBC News
More than 60,000 Darfur refugees living camps in Chad shared their heart-wrenching stories in a petition that was delivered Friday to British Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
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Darfur activists target Olympic sponsors, launch protests
5 hours ago
BEIJING (AFP) — Activist group Dream for Darfur accused top Olympic sponsors on Thursday of complicity in the genocide in Darfur and said it would target corporate headquarters for protests, starting with Coca-Cola.
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