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Rights group slams Sudan naming of Darfur militia leader as government advisor
Human Rights Watch Sunday condemned the appointment of a suspected Janjaweed [Slate backgrounder] militia leader as an advisor to Sudan's Ministry of Federal Affairs and special advisor to President Omar El Bashir . Musa Hilal is a tribal leade (More) |
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Former US congressman indicted in terrorism funding case
Mark Deli Siljander , a former Republican US congressman from Michigan and US representative to the United Nations, was indicted [indictment, PDF; DOJ press release] Wednesday for conspiracy to commit money laundering, money laundering, obstruction (More) |
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France prosecutors recommend prison time for 'Darfur orphans' airlift workers
French prosecutors Monday urged a criminal court in Creteil, a suburb of Paris, to convert the sentences of six French aid workers convicted and sentenced in Chad for their role in the attempted airlift of 103 supposed Darfur orphans to France fro (More) |
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US increases pressure on Sudan via Accountability and Divestment Act
Max Croes [Advocacy Associate, Sudan Divestment Task Force]: "On December 31, 2007, President Bush, with unanimous support from Congress, signed the Sudan Accountability and Divestment Act into law. The law is a landmark establishment of standa (More) |
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France charges aid worker in Chad 'Darfur orphans' case
An aid worker was charged in a French court Wednesday with conspiring to allow illegal residents into the country in connection with an aborted airlift of 103 supposed Darfur orphans from Chad to France last year. The indictment comes just two week (More) |
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Sudan Accountability and Divestment Act [White House]
Sudan Accountability and Divestment Act of 2007, signed by President George W. Bush, December 31, 2007 . Read the full text of the act . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. (More) |
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Bush signs Sudan divestment bill
US President George W. Bush Monday signed a bill intended to pressure Sudan to stop the violence in Darfur by allowing US states and local governments to sever investment links to Sudan without penalty under federal or state law. Under the Sudan A (More) |
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French aid workers involved in Chad 'Darfur orphans' case return to France
Six French aid workers were flown back to France Friday after they were sentenced to eight years of hard labor by a Chadian court earlier in the week for attempting to kidnap 103 African children. The workers, affiliated with the Zoe's Ark cha (More) |
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France requests transfer of aid workers sentenced in Chad 'Darfur orphans' case
The French Foreign Ministry Thursday formally requested that Chadian authorities transfer six French aid workers to a French prison, one day after the workers were sentenced to eight years of hard labor by a Chadian court for attempting to kidnap (More) |
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French aid workers sentenced to 8 years hard labor in Chad 'Darfur orphans' case
Six French aid workers were sentenced to eight years of hard labor Wednesday after being convicted in a Chadian court for attempting to kidnap 103 African children . The six, affiliated with the Zoe's Ark charity, claimed that they were attempt (More) |
India sues Union Carbide over Bhopal industrial disaster
On April 8, 1985, the government of India filed a lawsuit against the Union Carbide Corporation for the Bhopal industrial disaster in which forty-two tons of methyl isocyanate gas was released from the pesticide plant of a Union Carbide subsidiary in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India. The disaster initially killed 2,000 Indians and injured another 200,000. These injuries led to another 16,000 deaths as a result of exposure to the gas. In 1989, the parties reached a $470 million settlement out of court.
Learn more about the Bhopal industrial disaster from the Bhopal Gas Tragedy Relief and Rehabilitation Department of the government of Madhya Pradesh.
