Cambodia bars US actress from holding Darfur ceremony: official
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Actress Mia Farrow has been barred from holding a ceremony at a notorious Khmer Rouge prison as part of a campaign to pressure China to end abuses in Darfur, a Cambodian official said Wednesday.
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PHNOM PENH, Cambodia  Â American actress Mia Farrow said she was bewildered by the Cambodian government's attempt to block a ceremony at a former Khmer Rouge prison intended to highlight the humanitarian crisis in Sudan.
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US filmmaker Steven Spielberg abandoned his role in the Beijing Olympics and a host of prominent figures accused China of not doing enough to press its ally Sudan to end devastating violence in Darfur.
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Hollywood actress Mia Farrow says  she will ignore a deportation threat and pursue plans to light  a symbolic Olympic torch in Cambodia's "Killing Fields," as  part of a campaign to end atrocities in Sudan's Darfur.
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The top U.S. diplomat in charge of  combating trafficking in people demanded on Friday that  Cambodia free 91 women and children abducted from a shelter a  day after police had rescued them from a brothel.
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Indonesia has barred a U.S. congressman who has been a critic of Jakarta's policies in Papua from visiting the area, but has denied the move is to cover up alleged human rights abuses in the remote region.
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China says director is irresponsible for pulling out of Olympic role in protest over Darfur crisis
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United Nations human rights  investigators on Wednesday called off a visit to Darfur after  Sudanese officials demanded the removal of the U.N.'s former  top rights official from the group.
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The US leader passes legislation letting him impose sanctions on Sudan, in protest at the violence in Darfur.
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By ALEXA OLESEN  BEIJING - A U.S. women's advocacy group said Tuesday it hopes that an apparent travel ban against a prominent Chinese AIDS activist can be lifted so she can be honored at a ceremony in Washington next month.  Dr.
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Cambodian police barred Hollywood  actress Mia Farrow and other activists from laying flowers at a  "Killing Fields" museum on Sunday, as part of a campaign to end  atrocities in Sudan's Darfur.
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LONDON, Sep 21 (IPS) - The first visit by an Amnesty International team to  Darfur over the last several days showed that the U.S. human  rights record has weakened its case to intervene in a human  rights crisis elsewhere.
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The United Nations rights envoy to Cambodia has cancelled a visit to the country, officials said Monday, just days after the release of his scathing report on the government's rights record.
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Some international companies doing  business with Sudan would be barred from receiving U.S.  government contracts under legislation unveiled by  congressional Democrats hoping to end the killing in the  African country.
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The US government said it was "concerned" by information provided by Amnesty International, which says Sudanese authorities have arrested civilians who speak to foreign officials visiting the troubled Darfur region.
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A church group that protests at military funerals around the country will be barred from services for an American Indian soldier on a reservation, tribal officials say.
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Amy Winehouse has been denied a visa to enter the United States, preventing the troubled British singer from appearing at this weekend's Grammy awards ceremony, her publicists said Thursday.