Jezebel: Darfur

George Clooney & Ann Curry Visit Darfur

Dodai Stewart — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 09:00:00 EDT

George Clooney is in Sudan — along with an NBC news team and Ann Curry — trying to raise awareness about the upcoming election in January.

T.I. & Wife Arrested For Drug Possession

Dodai Stewart — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 09:00:00 EDT

Newlyweds T.I. and Tameka "Tiny" Cottle — who just married on July 30 — were busted for possession of a controlled substance (mary jane) last night.

Angelina Jolie Questions Idea Of Justice In Darfur

LatoyaPeterson — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 13:30:00 EST

Jolie takes to the op-ed pages to remind readers that on the day of Barack Obama's Peace Prize win, the people of Darfur are still waiting for justice. But can this be accomplished without the use of force? [Newsweek] More »

"No Place For Us Here": How To Solve Issues Of Sexual Violence In "Safe" Zones?

LatoyaPeterson — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:20:00 EDT

Today, Amnesty International released its report "No Place For Us Here: Violence Against Refugee Women in Eastern Chad" (PDF), which describes in painful detail the sexual violence that women escaping from Darfur face both outside and inside United Nations camps. More »

Mia Farrow's Hunger Strike Has Not Gone Viral On YouTube

Sadie Stein — Wed, 06 May 2009 14:40:00 EDT

Conscientious readers of the HuffPo will be aware that Mia Farrow has embarked upon a 21-day hunger strike to draw attention to Darfur. Conscientious viewers of YouTube will be more familiar with "Cop Tasers Child!!!" More »

Rihanna May Get Glossy; Kiefer Sutherland "Was Really Drunk"

Dodai Stewart — Wed, 06 May 2009 09:00:00 EDT

Rihanna was the big show-stopper at the Met Ball: Celebs cheered when she took the stage to perform. And! At an after-party, guess who RiRi was in deep convo with?

Emma Thompson: Celebrities + Charities = "Causeweariness"

Dodai Stewart — Tue, 05 May 2009 15:00:00 EDT

Today, Drew Barrymore penned a 760 word essay about the battle of global hunger. Somewhat unrelated, Emma Thompson has written a piece about how celebs with causes can be irritating. More »

Lindsay Lohan Likes Guys, Bathrooms

Dodai Stewart — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 09:00:00 EDT

Lindsay Lohan has supposedly been spending time with "a different man every night" since breaking up with Sam Ronson:

The People & The Parties: Gobs Of Oscar Gossip

Dodai Stewart — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 09:00:00 EST

So much Oscar gossip! For instance:

Mr. Clooney Goes To War

Dodai Stewart — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 09:45:00 EST

NY Times journalist Nicholas Kristof writes of George Clooney in Darfur: "Mr. Clooney figured that since cameras follow him everywhere, he might as well redirect some of that spotlight to people who need it more." More »

Darfur: When Assault Becomes A Case For Genocide

Megan Carpentier — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:00:00 EST

Luis Moreno-Ocampo, the prosecutor at the International Criminal Court, has pressed charges against Sudan's President Omar Hassan Ahmed Bashir for a variety of things and is awaiting the decision of 3 judges on what basis, if any, they will issue a warrant for his arrest. One of the many charges Moreno-Ocampo has asked be brought against Bashir is for the use of rape as a weapon on genocide. If the court agrees, it will be the first time that anyone has been charged with using mass rape to commit genocide. More »

Rape Is Now An Issue Of National Security

Megan Carpentier — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:40:00 EDT

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Condoleezza Rice is in New York today, chairing a debate at the Security Council over a U.S.-sponsored resolution to define rape and sexual violence against women as a tactic of war and calling upon countries to take concrete actions to stop and punish it. Of course, it's been going on for thousands of years, but, you know, better late than never. Rice's opening statement at the debate: More »

Donatella Versace Expresses Love For Fellow Blondes

Jennifer — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 11:30:00 EDT

Donatella Versace loves Hillary Clinton but thinks she should dress more like Donatella Versace if she wants to nab the presidency. [Vogue UK]

Lindsay's New Role: Cokehead?

Dodai Stewart — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 09:00:00 EDT

A fight broke out on the set of Pharrell's new video a few hours before Lindsay Lohan and Samantha Ronson showed up. Oh, and the N.E.R.D. song, "Everybody Nose," is about girls waiting on line for a club bathroom to do coke. [Page Six]

Natalie Portman's Tireless Work On Behalf Of...Nothingness

Moe — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 17:00:39 EDT

Who is the world's best celebrity? The New York Times Magazine came out this week and seemed like it was going to decree it to be Natalie Portman. While Angie, Brad, Bono, Clooney, Don Cheadle, Mia Farrow, Matt Damon, John Legend etc. etc. mostly dedicate themselves to Darfurian genocide and such, Natalie Portman's big issue is microfinance, which is, as causes go, apparently not as sexy. (Well, it's sexy if you're on the Nobel Committee, but you know.) Anyway, so, the genesis of Portman's decision to try and heal the world began in 2003, her senior year at Harvard, because "something very bad" happened to a friend of hers in Israel — where she was born. She won't say what happened, but she decided to call up Queen Rania of Jordan — an ethnic Palestinian! — and Rania suggested she get involved in microcredit, since it is pretty much the least controversial sort of philanthropy an Israeli and/or Arab are able to get involved in together. More »

Thank You, Mia Farrow, For Ruining Steven Spielberg's Olympics

Moe — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 14:00:58 EST

It hasn't gotten quite the press of, say, Scarlett Johnasson's phone banking for Obama, but Mia Farrow has exploited every waning ounce of her celebrity reminding the press freedom-enjoying community that China imports billions of dollars worth of oil from the Sudan, sometimes trading that oil for weapons and anyway propping up a genocidal Arab dictatorship that might stop butchering its citzens if it exercised its economic muscle. But yesterday's announcement that Steven Spielberg would step down from his post as a creative director for the upcoming Olympic Games is a huge — if somewhat Pyhrric — victory for her cause. See, China could very easily sway the murderous Sudanese government to let up on its human rights abuses. But to do so would be to acknowledge that such a thing as "human rights" exists. And by extension that the current power structure in China can only claim to have been good for the country's humans because it inflicted so much senseless inhumanity and brutal oppression in the forty years preceding the present era that the country actually appears, relative to the days in which kids were brainwashed into beating up their parents and shit, to be not so bad. More »

George Clooney For President!

Moe — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 18:30:25 EST

"Either give them the basic tools for protecting the population and themselves, or have the decency to just bring them all home. Because you can't do it halfway. Bring them home and shut off your TV and your radio and your phones and the Internet and go back into the offices and wait until it's all over." That's George Clooney, on Darfur. Also, the UN rescinded its invitation to speak so he was stuck telling reporters what he wished he could have said. [LA Times]

Mary Jane: More Of A Guy's Kind Of Girl

amparry — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 16:30:00 EDT

Is smoking weed a guy thing? Charlize Theron and her homemade apple bong beg to differ! While we can think of plenty of female stoners we know personally, we're not too big on the ganj ourselves. The munchies are a brutal affront to bikini season. [The Stranger]

Mia Farrow: A Crazier, Older, More Altruistic Angelina Jolie?

Mon, 06 Aug 2007 16:15:00 EDT

Mia Farrow is offering to give up her own freedom for that of a Sudanese rebel under hospital arrest. Is she for real or is this just some empty offer to prove once that she's a better person than Angelina? Either way, she is equal parts insane and awesome. [Telegraph]