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...peacekeeping mission in Lebanon. With the U.S. preoccupied with the threat of Islamic terrorism and struggling to extricate itself from a failing war in Iraq, China seems ready to challenge--possibly even undermine--some of Washington's other foreign policy goals, from halting the genocide in Darfur to toughening sanctions against Iran. China's international role has won the attention of the new Democratic majority in Congress. Tom Lantos, incoming chair of the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee and a critic of Beijing's human-rights record, told TIME that he intends to hold early hearings on China...
Arab militias in Darfur, with support from the Sudanese government, have uprooted and exterminated hundreds of thousands of black, Muslim villagers in a campaign that the U.S. State Department and Congress have both termed genocide. More than 400,000 people have died in the four-year-old conflict, and more than two million have lost their homes, according to U.N. officials’ estimates...
...founder of the Harvard Darfur Action Group, Rebecca Hamilton, said yesterday that she is “hopeful that the Corporation will move quickly to ensure the University’s good reputation on this issue is not called into question by indirect investments in companies it has already decided to divest from directly...
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...Rebecca J. Hamilton is a student at the Harvard Law School and the Kennedy School of Government. She has worked in Sudan and co-founded the Harvard Darfur Action Group...