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April 8 , 2008

Op-Ed: China's record does not reflect the Olympic spirit 08/04-2008 10:51 (San Francisco Chronicle)

The Olympic torch will pass through San Francisco Wednesday during the only North American stop on the worldwide Olympic torch relay to Beijing, where the 2008 Olympic Games will be played. Against this backdrop, millions of activists worldwide are calling on China to end the violence and repression in Tibet and urging China to use its influence to put pressure on Sudan to end the genocide in Darfur. Thousands are expected to turn out in San Francisco to cheer the torch on its way or protest the policies of the host nation.

S.F. treats torch run as a hot potato 08/04-2008 10:50 (San Francisco Chronicle)

San Francisco officials say they are confident the city will host a successful Olympic torch run Wednesday and avoid a repeat of the chaos that engulfed the relay in Paris, where police were forced to extinguish torches and carry the flame in a bus.

Time running out for Sudan election laws: speaker 08/04-2008 09:02 (Reuters via Yahoo!)

Sudan's elections next year will not be fair if parliament fails to review key laws before the end of June, the deputy speaker said on Tuesday. A 2005 peace deal ended war between Sudan's northern government and southern rebels, but both sides accuse each other of foot dragging over revising the laws set out...

UN links up with Google Earth to help refugees 08/04-2008 08:59 (Yahoo! Asia News)

Photo: AFP GENEVA (AFP) - The United Nations refugee agency on Tuesday unveiled a new partnership with Internet giant Google to help track refugees from Iraq to Darfur and raise public awareness of its work.

'The Translator' Chronicles Haunting Treks to Darfur 08/04-2008 08:55 (NPR Broadcast)

Sudan's government rarely allows journalists into the Darfur region to cover the brutal conflict, so many try to access Darfur from neighboring Chad. To do so, they use interpreters or fixers — one of whom has written a book about providing the service for Western reporters.

UN Chief Pledges to Prevent New Genocide 08/04-2008 03:18 (The New York Times)

Filed at 1:51 a.m. ET UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- At a ceremony marking the 14th anniversary of the mass slaughter in Rwanda, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon pledged to step up efforts to prevent another genocide.

Clinton: Bush Should Not Open Olympics 07/04-2008 15:25 (Los Angeles Times)

WASHINGTON Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton on Monday called on President Bush to stay away from the Olympics opening ceremonies in Beijing, a fresh sign that politics, not sports, may take center stage at the summer games.

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Action Professionals Association for the People

Aegis Trust Rwanda

African Centre for Democracy and Human Rights Studies

African Center for Development

African Center for Justice and Peace Studies

Africa Internally Displaced Persons Voice (Africa IDP Voice)

African Security Dialogue and Research (ASDR)

African Women's Development and Communications Network (FEMNET)

The Ahueni Foundation

Alliances for Africa

Amman Centre for Human Rights Studies

Andalus Institute for Tolerance

Anti-Slavery International

Arab Coalition for Darfur

Arab Program for Human Rights Activists

Association Africaine de Defense des Droits de l'Homme (ASADHO)

Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies

Centre for Minority Rights Development (CEMIRIDE)

Centre for Research Education and Development of Freedom of Expression and Associated Rights (CREDO)

Citizens for Global Solutions

Conscience International

Conseil National Pour les Libertés en Tunisie

Darfur Alert Coalition (DAC)

Darfur Centre for Human Rights and Development

Darfur Leaders Network (DLN)

Darfur Reconciliation and Development Organization (DRDO)

Darfur Relief and Documentation Centre

East Africa Law Society

Egyptian Organization for Human Rights

Femmes Africa Solidarité

La Fédération Internationale des Droits de l'Homme (FIDH)

Forum of African Affairs (FOAA)

Human Rights First

Human Rights Institute of South Africa (HURISA)

Institute for Human Rights and Development in Africa

Institute for Security Studies

Inter-African Union for Human Rights (UIDH)

Interights

International Commission of Jurists (ICJ Kenya)

International Refugee Rights Initiative

Justice Africa

Justice and Peace Commission

Lawyers for Human Rights

Lebanese Association for Democratic Elections

Legal Resources Consortium-Nigeria

Ligue Tunisienne des Droits de l'Homme

Makumira University College, Tumaini University

Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA)

Minority Rights Group

National Association of Seadogs

Never Again International

Open Society Justice Initiative

Pan-African Movement

Rencontre Africaine Pour la Defense des Droits de l'Homme (RADDHO)

Sierra Leone STAND Chapter

Sisters' Arabic Forum for Human Rights (SAF)

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP)

Sudan Organization Against Torture (SOAT)

Syrian Organization for Human Rights

Unitarian Universalist Service Committee (UUSC)

Universal Human Rights Network

WARIPNET

Women Initiative Nigeria (WIN)