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Darfur Developments Before Referral to ICC

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International Criminal Court

ICC Prosecutor Meets with Senior Leaders from Northern Uganda
April 22, 2005 -- The International Criminal Court's (ICC) Chief Prosecutor, Luis Moreno Ocampo, recently met with senior leaders from Acholi, Lango, Iteso, and Madi communities to discuss the ICC's investigation of atrocities committed in Uganda.
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ICC Prosecutor Receives List of Suspected Sudanese War Criminals from the United Nations
April 5, 2005 -- Today, the ICC Prosecutor, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, was in New York to receive a list of suspected Sudanese war criminals from UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan. It marks the first step in an ICC investigation of the atrocities committed in the Darfur region of Sudan.
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Security Council Refers Atrocities in Darfur, Sudan to the International Criminal Court
April 1, 2005 -- In an historic vote, the UN Security Council referred the situation in Darfur, Sudan, to the International Criminal Court (ICC) for the investigation and prosecution of persons responsible for committing war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide. Security Council Resolution 1593 passed 11-0 with the United States, Algeria, Brazil, and China abstaining.
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United Nations Experts Call for Referral of Situation in Darfur, Sudan to the International Criminal Court
March 16, 2005 -- A group of 15 UN Human Rights Experts released a joint statement calling on the UN Security Council to "immediately adopt concrete measures to end the violence" in Darfur, Sudan and refer the situation to the International Criminal Court.
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Kenya Is the 98th Country to Ratify the Rome Statute and Become a Member of the ICC
March 15, 2005 -- Kenya became the 98th state to join the International Criminal Court (ICC). 27 African nations have now become members of the ICC; they represent the largest regional grouping on the Court.
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The International Criminal Court Will Hold Its First Hearing On March 15th To Discuss the Progress of the DRC Investigation
February 23, 2005 -- The International Criminal Court (ICC) will soon hold its first ever status conference. The hearing will address "the progress of the investigation of the situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo."
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ICC Prosecutor Announces That Team Will Visit Ivory Coast
January 28, 2005 -- The team's mission will be to determine whether there is sufficient evidence to open a formal investigation into alleged war crimes that occurred during the civil war there.
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Citizens for Global Solutions Calls on President Bush to Support Security Council Referral of Darfur to the ICC
January 25, 2005 -- Citizens for Global Solutions President Charles Brown, former spokesperson for the U.S. government delegation at the Rome Conference that created the ICC treaty, sent a letter to President Bush calling on him help end the genocide in Darfur by supporting a referral of the Darfur situation to the International Criminal Court (ICC).
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Central African Republic Asks the International Criminal Court To Open A Formal Investigation
January 24, 2005 -- On January 7, the International Criminal Court (ICC) announced it had received a letter from the government of the Central African Republic (CAR) asking the Prosecutor to open an investigation into the situation in the CAR.
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UN Commission on Human Rights

U.S. Will Support the Secretary-General's Plan to Reform the Commission on Human Rights
May 4, 2005 -- The United States has been one of the most vocal critics of the Commission on Human Rights and has long called for reform of the organization. Recently, the U.S. endorsed the Secretary-General’s proposal to reform the UNCHR.
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2005 Commission on Human Rights Meeting Highlights Well-Known Structural Problems
May 3, 2005 -- The meeting of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights failed to address human rights abuses in Chechnya and treatment of religious and ethnic minorities in China, justifying much of the pre-meeting criticism. However, the session also produced some modest achievements.
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2005 Commission on Human Rights Meeting Unlikely to Address Most Serious Human Rights Issues
February 15, 2005 -- The United Nations Commission on Human Rights (CHR) recently released details about the 2005 annual meeting. Sadly, while it is widely agreed that the CHR is in desperate need of reform, the agenda and composition of the 2005 meeting indicate that this year’s meeting will not differ substantially from last year's.
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International Criminal Tribunals

UN Security Council Discusses the Work of the Special Court for Sierra Leone
May 24, 2005 -- The President of the Special Court for Sierra Leone, Emmanuel Olayinka Ayoola, briefed the UN Security Council on the activities of the Court and addressed issues of imminent concern.
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Darfur Developments Before Referral to ICC

Coalition of American NGOs Proposes Resolution to End Darfur Violence
March 18, 2005 -- A group of prominent NGOs, including Citizens for Global Solutions, has prepared a draft Security Council resolution that would end the violence in Darfur, Sudan.
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African NGOs Call for Decisive Action on Darfur
March 11, 2005 -- The Darfur Consortium, an umbrella group for more than forty African NGO's, published an open letter to the Security Council calling for decisive action to end the humanitarian crisis in Darfur.
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Coalition of American NGOs Calls for Strong Darfur Resolution
March 10, 2005 -- A group of prominent foreign policy and human rights NGO's, including Citizens for Global Solutions, Human Rights Watch, Coalition for International Justice and International Crisis Group, has called on the Security Council to quickly pass a strong resolution on Darfur.
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Other Law & Justice Issues

Charles Taylor Continues to Cause Trouble from Exile
April 29, 2005 -- Taylor was originally allowed into exile to avoid what some predicted would be a bitter battle for control of Monrovia, the capital of Liberia, but exile has not worked.
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Human Rights Lost In the War On Terror: Harrowing Stories of Interrogation and Torture
March 2, 2005 -- A secret government program called “extraordinary rendition" has recently come to light. Under the auspices of extraordinary rendition, the U.S. government extradites terrorist suspects from one foreign state to another for interrogation and prosecution.
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Senate Expected to Confirm Gonzales Despite Torture Controversy
January 12, 2005 -- Alberto Gonzales appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee on January 6 in what many are considering only a perfunctory step towards becoming Attorney General. The committee’s treatment of Gonzales’s confirmation as inevitable is deeply disturbing in light of the central role he has played in drafting memos redefining and condoning torture.
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