SALC in the news: The bloody repercussions of the AU’s support for Al-Bashir

15th July 2009
The AU's recent decision at Sirte suggests to al-Bashir that he can breathe more easily. But, in showing that commitment to the principles of international criminal justice is changeable, the AU also lets all those inside and outside the continent who have profited from its bloodshed rest more easily. And it makes the prospect of justice for those who seem most immune -- war criminals of the most powerful, developed states -- less, not more, likely.
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SALC in the news: How Civil Society Blocked an Arms Shipment for Zimbabwe

1st July 2009
In April 2008, a Chinese ship carrying arms destined for Zimbabwe’s Defence Force attempted to offload those weapons in Durban’s harbour, so that they might be transported across South African territory to land-locked Zimbabwe. South African civil society, alerted to the existence of the arms and anxious that they might be used to suppress democratic forces in the aftermath of Zimbabwe’s controversial elections, undertook a number of actions to stop delivery. Among them, they obtained a court order preventing the offloading and transfer of the arms cargo and the ship then fled Durban in an attempt to find another southern African port.
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