JULY 26, 2010

RESPONDING TO AL BASHIR'S GENOCIDE CHARGES, Referendum Reports

The International Criminal Court issued a second arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar al Bashir on three counts of genocide on Monday, July 12th. Please encourage your constituents to act by alerting them to call Secretary Clinton at 1-800-Genocide or send a message to President Obama and Secretary Clinton.

Full details here on this action alert, and latest developments from the Save Darfur Coalition

APRIL 29, 2010

GRADING THE BENCHMARKS IN SUDAN: How Sudan is Backsliding on Benchmarks Crucial to Peace

Full details here

February 27, 2010

DARFUR REBELS, SUDANESE GOVERNMENT SIGN PRELIMINARY DEAL

Sudan’s government has signed a deal with the leading rebel group in Darfur, the Justice and Equality Movement – a breakthrough after many months of stalled negotiations. While the news is certainly promising, a remark from the sidelines of peace talks underway in Doha seemed to capture the mood of cautious optimism: “This is not the end,” said Al-Tahir al-Feki, a rebel official. “It is the beginning of the end.” Full article here

Action Alert: January 28, 2010. Advocacy Groups Call for U.S. Officials To Hold Sudan Accountable To Clear Benchmarks. Read more information here

January 11, 2010- Now online: The ISG Newsletter, #43, Winter 2009.

• Peoples at Risk
• Torture, Democracy and the Challenge of the Future by Darius Rejali (Lemkin Award Speech)
• The Politics of Genocide and the Turkey-Armenia Protocols by Roger Smith
• UK Judge Examines Record of UK Denial of Armenian Genocide by Geoffrey Robertson

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January 9, 2009

LETTER TO THE EDITOR OF THE NEW YORK TIMES

We are genocide scholars gravely concerned about signs of genocide and political murder in Zimbabwe. President Robert Mugabe, through discrimination and terror, has created an economic catastrophe. State-created hyper-inflation has caused famine, though not for Mugabe's partisans. Now cholera is sweeping a country that lacks medicines...

Full text of this letter here.