News: Report cards, watch lists, and a huge success for international human rights

• The Olympics: Dream for Darfur released a report card scoring the actions of corporate Olympics sponsors regarding China’s human rights record. The vast majority failed the make the grade.
• Darfur: The War Crimes Watch List is using Facebook as a tool to search fugitives indicted by the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity in Darfur.
• Burundi: President Nkurunziza requested assistance from the international community to help quell the latest active offensive by the FNL rebel group. Grenade and bomb attacks on the capital city killed at least 33 people this week.
• Zimbabwe: Human Rights Watch released a report further documenting increased violence by ZANU-PF militia and the military, and a New York Times reporter describes his arrest and time in captivity in Harare for the “crime of committing journalism.” The UN Security Council is set to discuss the crisis for the first time next week. Multiple news sources report that the Chinese “ship of shame,” carrying 77 tons of weapons for the Zimbabwean military was allowed to dock in Angola, but not to unload its cargo. As the New York Times comments, this is a “surprising success” for the international movement that rallied against the ship, as Angola is a long-time ally of Robert Mugabe. Kudos to my friends in ZA who participated in the protests—this is really quite a remarkable feat.