Tag archive: Sudan

The United States Treasury Department has amended its commerce regulations granting general licenses to U.S. companies to export Internet-based communications services—like instant messaging, social networking, and email—to Iran, Cuba, and the Sudan. The move is intended to boost the free flow of information in those historically repressive countries, with the idea that improving citizens' ability to communicate with the… Read More

Hunting those suspected of warm crimes has always been a difficult business, because the suspects want to dig deep to hide. But the War Crimes Watch List (WCWL) is using a mix of the old-fashionedand hi-tech in their search for two men suspected of crimes against humanity in the Sudan, Ahmed Haroun and Janjaweed leader Ali Muhammad Ali Abd al-Rahman, according to a BBC report. The men wereboth indicted by the International Criminal Court last… Read More

At this point, most technologically-savvy individuals are used to the idea of satellites in orbit around the earth, enabling everything from international phone calls and Internet connectivity to GPS systems and the hundreds of channels of television we seem to think are part of our everyday live. Now, in a first for a human rights organization, Amnesty International is using satellite imagery technology for a purely humanitarian purpose:… Read More

Google and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum today announced an online mapping initiative which is designed to highlight growing troubles in the Darfur region of Sudan via Google Earth. This initiative, dubbed Crisis in Darfur, is the first project in "the Museum's Genocide Prevention Mapping Initiative that will over time include information on potential genocides." The Holocaust Museum, through Google Earth, is… Read More

The words “MySpace” and “genocide” don't often appear in the same sentence—usually it's just “stalking” or “school bomb threat”—but today social networking giant MySpace announced a partnership with humanitarian organization Oxfam and nearly two dozen bands to raise awareness of—and funds for—the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Sudan's Darfur region. The… Read More