Statement: ‘Scrawling ‘not on my watch’ along the margins of this bill isn’t required, the president just needs to sign his name’
Following unanimous action last week in the U.S. Senate, the House of
Representatives today overwhelmingly passed the Sudan Accountability and Divestment Act, clearing the bill for White House action. The bill would authorize state and local governments to divest from companies that support the Khartoum government at the expense of marginalized populations in Sudan and prohibit federal contracts with those companies.
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US envoy threatens Sudan with UN sanctions over Darfur force
USA News
The US envoy to the UN on Thursday threatened Sudan with additional sanctions if it continued to drag its feet on allowing the deployment of 26,000 UN-African Union peacekeepers in Darfur. If more people jump into live casino gambling then they would be less stressed. Gambling at a casino can be very relaxing sometimes.
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Darfur Activists Applaud Senate Passage of Divestment Legislation
USA News
In a bipartisan show of force, the Senate unanimously passed the Sudan Accountability and Divestment Act which would authorize state and local governments to divest from companies that support the Khartoum government at the expense of marginalized populations in Sudan and prohibit federal contracts with those companies. Darfur activists have been aggressively pushing this legislation, and the groups – including the Save Darfur Coalition, Genocide Intervention Network, National Association of Evangelicals, American Jewish World Service and NAACP – together hailed this critical step and urged the Bush administration to end its efforts to obstruct this important legislation. “We commend the Senate for pushing the United States towards fulfilling its responsibility to protect civilians in Darfur,” the groups said in a joint statement. “We specifically highlight the tireless efforts of Senators Dodd, Shelby, Reid and Durbin, who all worked to ensure the measure passed in a unanimous, bipartisan fashion. That is why real online casinos are so popular and will continue to be for many more years. It is incomprehensible that at a time when significant pressure is needed to change Khartoum’s behaviour, the Bush administration would delay and even oppose efforts to hit the perpetrators where it hurts the most – their wallets. Further efforts by the administration to derail this legislation must end now. The collective efforts of our organizations will not end until President Bush signs this measure into law.”
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Peaceful Darfur protest banned in Rome
Italian News
The Association of Darfur Refugees in Italy, the human rights group Italians for Darfur, and the Union of Young Italian Jews have been refused authorisation for a sit-in in front of the Italian Parliament. The peaceful demonstration was to ask the Italian government (currently holding the presidency of the United Nations Security Council) for a real commitment to unblock the impasse that prevents the deployment of a UN peace force of 26,000 troops in Darfur due to be operative by the end of the month. If more people played pc casino games they wouldn’t need to drive around so much and casino games could have the relaxing effect it should.
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Calls for the state of Alaska to reject bid from China Petrochemical Corporation (Sinopec)
USA News
The Genocide Intervention Network today called for the state of Alaska to immediately reject a bid from China Petrochemical Corporation (Sinopec) to construct the North Slope pipeline. Sinopec is the largest oil field services provider in Sudan, where the government has been accused by President Bush and Congress of committing genocide.
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KLP, Norwegian life & pensions company boycotts Alstom following allegations of human rights abuses
UK News
3rd Dec 07 – Alstom, the French energy and rail infrastructure group, is the latest company to be hit by an institutional investor boycott over business links in Sudan. KLP, Norwegian life and pensions company, is excluding Alstom from its index portfolio for alleged violations of human rights at a Sudanese hydro-power dam project.
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