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Team Darfur Member to Carry U.S. Flag at Olympics 07/08-2008 10:00 (Bloomberg)

A Sudanese-born runner who is a member of an athletes group critical of China's policies toward Darfur was chosen to carry the U.S. flag in the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics.

Olympics: Activists Barred From Games By Chinese Government 07/08-2008 09:56 (Washington Post)

The Chinese government on Tuesday revoked the visa of 2006 Olympic gold medalist Joey Cheek, effectively barring the speedskating champion and social activist from attending the 2008 Beijing Games.

Human Rights Activists Trumpet ICC Actions on Darfur 07/08-2008 09:55 (Voice of America News)

Human rights activists say Sudan's allies and trading partners, such as China, are obligated to re-evaluate and adjust their dealings with Khartoum, now that the International Criminal Court has given notice of possible genocide in Sudan's Darfur region.

UN raises concern over Sudan's Darfur rebel trials 07/08-2008 09:54 (Agence France-Presse)

The United Nations on Thursday voiced concern over trials in Sudan that sentenced to death 30 alleged Darfur rebels for an attack on the capital and urged Khartoum to abolish capital punishment.

Olympics: Mia Farrow hits out at giving Games to China 07/08-2008 06:46 (Yahoo! News Australia)

Farrow hits out at giving Games to China 2008 Beijing Olympic Games - - My - [New User? ] Motor Motor s BEIJING 2008 : Mia Farrow hits out at giving Games to China AFP - August 7, 2008, 8:16 pm US actress and Darfur activist Mia Farrow Thursday hit out at the International Olympic Committee for awarding...

COUNTDOWN TO BEIJING Human rights issues take center stage as Olympics near 07/08-2008 02:49 (LA Times)

China is pressured by athletes, spectators and the U.S. to improve its record on Darfur and Tibet.

HELENE ELLIOTT Thanks to Lopez Lomong, it's good to believe in the Olympics again 06/08-2008 19:16 (LA Times)

The Sudanese refugee and 1,500-meter runner is chosen by fellow athletes to carry the U.S. flag at the opening ceremony.

Indicted Sudanese president seeks help from rivals 06/08-2008 15:34 (Yahoo News USA)

KHARTOUM, Sudan - Rivals of Sudan's president are pressing him to make concessions at home and abroad in a bid to ward off international charges he ordered genocide in Darfur, a case they fear could wreck peace efforts and even plunge the country into civil war.

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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)