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Is Aung San Suu Kyi Calling for the U.S. to Lift Sanctions?
Let’s set the record straight: the news media got this one dead wrong. Aung San Suu Kyi’s own words contradict what is being reported. Here is a transcript of Aung San Suu Kyi’s comments at today’s video broadcast at the … Continue reading
Burma: Putting Conflict Victims on the Map
According to recent reports, around 2,000 Burmese troops have moved into place around the town of Laiza in Kachin State. Laiza serves as a key rebel base for the Kachin Independence Army and refuge for thousands of families displaced by … Continue reading
Tibet: A Case of Cultural Genocide?
This month, our blog has featured voices of survivors of past genocides and mass atrocities. In so many of these cases the world failed to call the atrocities genocide while they were taking place. In some cases, even generations later, … Continue reading
Atrocities Prevention, Technology and Syria
One of the most exciting elements in President Obama’s speech on genocide prevention announcing a new Atrocities Prevention Board on Monday was an announcement that the Administration is going to set up a new set of “challenge grants” designed to … Continue reading
Beyond Kony 2012: Why Cover the Night Matters
This has happened before. The advocacy group Invisible Children is calling on people around the world to take action today by “Covering the Night” to call on the world to bring war criminal Joseph Kony to justice. This is a … Continue reading
The Lady of the Hour: Aung San Suu Kyi
Aung San Suu Kyi’s victory in Burma’s parliamentary elections yesterday was a long-awaited homecoming. Lest we forget, a most bitter outcome followed her first electoral victory, in Burma’s 1990 presidential election. As we celebrate the opening of democracy in Burma, … Continue reading
Friends of Syria?
It is encouraging to see the global community increasing its efforts to put Syria’s dictator, Bashar al-Assad, out of business. The violence in Syria has been shocking and the world must take action now to stop it. The Friends of … Continue reading
Fueling the Fire: Conflict Minerals and the Democratic Republic of Congo
Children mining in the DRC How many millions must die before the world takes action to stop a raging conflict? An estimated 5 million people have been killed in the Democratic Republic of Congo since 1996. This country’s turmoil has … Continue reading
Sanctions, Technology and Human Rights in Syria
The following was originally posted on The Hill’s Congress Blog. Sadly, things are not getting better for the people of Syria – just this past weekend residents of Homs experienced some of the worst violence since the Syrian government began … Continue reading
Syria’s Long Winter
The following originally appeared in the Huffington Post: In early 2011 — almost exactly a year ago — Syria’s citizens began protests against the repression of the Assad regime. While countries throughout the Middle East enjoyed a wave of political … Continue reading