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In Praise of the Save Darfur Movement

Laura Rozen reports that the Save Darfur Coalition president Jerry Fowler is stepping down.  At the end, she quotes something I wrote a few months ago about what I believe to be some of the strengths and limitations of the Save Darfur movement.  Here's  what I wrote:

Senate Hearing on Haiti

A very refreshing hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Haiti just concluded. Paul Farmer who is Bill Clinton’s Deputy UN Special Representative on Haiti, RAND’s Jim Dobbins (a UN Dispatch favorite), and Rony Francois, the incoming director of public health for the state of Georgia testified on what is needed for Haiti's long term recovery. 

Rebuilding Connections After the Quake

By Myriam Annette, read part 1 of Myriam's

“Thanks to TSF’s calling operation, I could call my uncle in Venezuela. It was essential to reassure him about my family, to tell him that we all are alive. For me, the most important thing for survival is to keep the family connections, whatever the situation.”

Obama Year One Shows Constructive Global Engagement Has Won the Foreign Policy Debate

As President Obama heads to Capitol Hill tonight to deliver the State of the Union address, one thing is clear: in both rhetoric and deed, President Obama has fundamentally shifted the direction of American foreign policy.  He has summoned bedrock progressive principals to re-calibrate America’s role in the world. Through a policy of engagement with international institutions and cooperation abroad, the administration has racked up an impressive set of foreign policy achievements after just one year.

Holocaust Remembrance Week at the UN

There are a host of events at the United Nations this week to commemorate the Holocaust. The UN, of course, was born out of the horrors of World War Two and this year's commemorations mark the 65th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.

Here's Ban Ki Moon's statement on the week's theme: survival. 

The theme of this year’s commemoration at United Nations offices around the world is the legacy of survival.

Haiti: “Cash for Work” Program Up and Running

The Haiti earthquake not only collapsed buildings and killed as many as 200,000 people, it also destroyed the already fragile economy around Port-au-Prince.  Now that the search and rescue phase has concluded, the UN is trying to jump-start the cash economy in areas affected by the earthquake.  To that end, the United Nations Development  program launched a "cash for work" program in which Haitians are hired on a day-to-day basis to help clear rubble and clean the streets.  From the UN New

UK Government Supports Effort to De-List Some Taliban from UN Sanctions List

In an interview with the New York Times on Sunday, the UN's top official on Afghanistan, Kai Eide, expressed support for removing some Taliban and Al Qaeda members from targeted individual sanctions imposed by the Security Council. From the Times:

Mr. Eide said he did not believe that senior Taliban leaders like Mullah Omar should be removed from the list. It was Mullah Omar, after all, who provided sanctuary to Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda, which launched the Sept. 11 attacks.