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- International Effort
- Madieu Williams, FS, Maryland
- Article from: AAP
- Asylum in Hungary: Crisis averted but challenges emerging
- Lack of donor support threatens food supplies for 2 million refugees …

International Effort
Embassy – May 18, 2005
] in returning the rule of law to West Africa. ” The UN’s Special Court for Sierra Leone was set up in 2002 to prosecute those most responsible for committing war crimes and human rights violations during the West African nation’s 1991-2002 civil war. Crane explains that this unique, hybrid court resembles the UN’s International Judicial Support program in Kosovo, but is “purely an international war crimes tribunal, the same nature as Rwanda and Yugoslavia. It’s just that it’s a hybrid international war crimes tribunal. What that means is – and I think this is a correct way to approach regional tragedies such as Sierra Leone – and that is to involve the country which suffered the tragedy, and so the hybrid aspect of the court is that the judges are both international as well as Sierra Leonean, and the mixture of senior staff on the special court are internationally nominated and Sierra Leonean nominated,” says Mr…
] Instead of having 1,100 people in the office of the prosecutor, for example like in Rwanda, I have 72 which is a huge cost savings,” he explains of hiring staff only as needed. “One of the questions that was asked of me before I went to Sierra Leone by the UN Security Council [was] can international criminal justice be effectively and efficiently applied in an acceptable time frame, and of course the answer is based on if you have a plan,” says Mr. “You can actually do that in a period of around four years. Crane says that the Special Court will wrap up its duties in Dec.

Madieu Williams, FS, Maryland
USA Today – May 18, 2005
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Article from: AAP
NEWS.com.au – news.com.au – May 18, 2005
1997 – Rebels led by Laurent Kabila take control of Kinshasa, capital of Zaire, after overrunning the country in seven months; US President Bill Clinton announces creation of a research centre at the National Institutes of Health devoted to developing an AIDS vaccine within the next decade. 1998 – The US government files a sweeping antitrust case against Microsoft Corp, the world’s most powerful software company. 1999 – Sierra Leone’s government and the country’s rebels agree to a ceasefire to end seven years of savage fighting; Britain and Iran end years of dispute over the fatwa imposed on Salman Rushdie and agree to exchange ambassadors. 2000 – The UN Security Council unanimously approves an arms embargo against Ethiopia and Eritrea following the latest flare-up in their two-year war over the border the two countries share. 2001 – In Utah, polygamist and father-of-25 Tom Green is found guilty of four counts of bigamy in the first such case in the United States in 50 years. 2002 – South Korean police arrest Kim Hong Gul, the youngest son of President Kim Dae Jung, on suspicion of influence-peddling. He is accused of taking bribes worth $US2 million ($3.

Asylum in Hungary: Crisis averted but challenges emerging
noticias.info – May 18, 2005
They are not eligible for unemployment grants, which requires at least one year of continuous legal employment in the country. It is a vicious circle, and the only way out may be through informal networks, personal contacts and individual resourcefulness. Abu Sule*, a 34-year-old refugee from Sierra Leone, survives through small trading, odd jobs and the occasional cash support from friends abroad. Asked why he is staying in Hungary despite the difficulties, he says, “I have been here for seven years. I have no family back in my country and I have had enough of running away. I plan to stay in Hungary as I feel safe here, even if my dream of living a normal life is still very, very far away. ” Life is not much easier in the refugee reception centres.

Lack of donor support threatens food supplies for 2 million refugees …
Noticias.info (Communiqus de presse) – May 18, 2005
Without new contributions, the organization said, it will have to resort to more cuts. Refugees are among WFPs most vulnerable beneficiaries and have been hit hard by shortfalls, said WFPs Deputy Executive Director John Powell, who was in Geneva yesterday to discuss funding with officials of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). This month, WFP began reducing rations to refugees in Sierra Leone, while provisions for refugees in Guinea and Liberia have also been cut, as only 40 per cent of its $93. 5 million appeal for refugees in West Africa has been funded so far, WFP said. The reduction of food rations for refugees has a number of negative effects: health deterioration, inadequate nutrition, increases in domestic violence and crime as well as refugees taking up illegal employment outside the camps to supplement their diets, said Mr. Within a few weeks, WFP will be running out of food for the 60,000 Sudanese refugees, as well as 3,000 newly-arrived Congolese refugees in Uganda following clashes between factions in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).