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Search results for "Sudan" ...
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Making money, raising eyebrows
"An examination by the Sun shows that the pension fund's $23 billion portfolio contains investments in companies that do business with rogue nations or whose practices contribute to social or environmental ills in direct opposition to the United States and Nevada policies."
Tags: business; pension; Iran; Syria; Sudan; Libya; child labor; nuclear waste; Nevada;
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Searching For Jacob
While individualizing the story by centering on the search for a refugee named Jacob Arga, "whose village was destroyed as part of the ethnic 'cleansing,'" CBS News tells the story of the genocide in Darfur, Sudan. The reporters did find Jacob "in a refugee camp on the Chad border."
Tags: ethnic cleansing; Darfur, Sudan; refugees; genocide
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A Man's Asylum Fight in the Land of the Free, Judge's Behavior Sparks Outrage but Little Relief, Few Applicants Succeed in Immigration Courts
These articles address the cases of two political refugees who seek asylum in the U.S. and their trials at the hands of the INS and the U.S. Immigration Court. There are no written standards for immigration judges. In these stories, Judge Thomas M. Ragno decides a Sudanese refugee is not Catholic because the man did not what parochial schools were (there are none in Sudan). The refugee spends three years in jail before his case is overturned. Myanmar activist Tialhei Zathang still waits on an appeal trial after Judge Joan V. Churchill decides he is an Indian citizen, despite the testimony of U.S. professors and Myanmar parliament members who support him.
Tags: immigration; asylum; refugees; misconduct; "reasonable fear" ruling by the Supreme Court versus interpreted by Immigration Judges; due process; deportation; Immigration and Naturalization Service.
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Hidden Wars
The Dallas Morning News reveals that wars rage in many countries even today and the victims are not just soldiers. Hidden War points out peace is a dream in many places around the globe and the resources that could have been used to feed the hungry, cure the sick are still used for war. In Sudan, two million people have died so far. The Kurds' long struggle for identity has encountered stiff resistance. A dozen forces, including the armies of six nations, fight in Congo. And the main casualty in all these are ordinary people.
Tags: civil war; famine; Sudan; poverty; violence; hunger; conflict. war; Guatemala; disease
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On Target?
NBC News Dateline "examined whether the United States made a mistake when it bombed a pharmaceutical plant in Sudan on August 20, 1998. U.S. officials said the plant was helping Osama Bin Laden's terrorist network produce chemical weapons. The plant's owner denied those charges and said the U.S. destroyed an impoverished country's main source of medicine..."
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The False Promise of Slave Redemption
Around 20,000 people in Sudan have been enslaved. The Atlantic Monthly investigates humanitarian efforts to buy freedom for Sudanese slaves -- the practice of slave redemption. Some Africans and Westerners say slave redemption actually encourages the practice of taking slaves and promotes hoaxes..
Tags: Africa; Nonprofits; Foreign Affairs
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The Baltimore Sun investigates slavery in Sudan. Two reporters traveled to the African nation and were able to buy slaves, providing irrefutable proof that slavery does exist. The article was widely reprinted in the United States, Europe, Asia and Africa. (June 16, 17, 18, 1996)
Tags: Lewthwaite Kane Witness to slavery Contest entry Human rights 38 pgs.
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ABC News reveals that the plot by terrorists to bomb the United Nations headquarters in New York, uncovered by the FBI, was linked to the highest levels of the Sudanese government; the series contributed to the state department putting Sudan on a list of governments that sponsor terrorism, June 1993.
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Mother Jones Magazine (San Francisco) looks at the growing number of malnourished individuals in Sudan and efforts to relieve the hunger, July/August 1992.
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CNN Special Assignment (Atlanta) uncovers a scandal within the U.S. government's international aid program, Agency for International Development; finds the program is fraught with corruption that has wasted tens of millions of U.S. tax dollars, which went to build private tennis courts in Rwanda, assisted in shipping toxic waste to Zimbabwe, shipped animal feed instead of milk to famine-plagued Sudan, and sent contaminated medicine to Peru that ended up killing babies, Dec. 29, 1991.
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