12/21/2007 | Associated Press
US Special Envoy for Sudan Resigns
President Bush's special envoy for Sudan, Andrew Natsios, has resigned, U.S. officials said Friday...Natsios oversaw a push to end the violence that the United States calls genocide in Sudan's troubled western Darfur region and worked to maintain a 2005 peace agreement that ended decades of civil war between north and south Sudan...The officials who confirmed Natsios' resignation spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to make the announcement, which was expected from the White House along with the nomination of his successor, former deputy U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Richard Williamson...more >>
12/21/2007 | Sudan Tribune
UN has only 9, 000 troops at Darfur takeover
There will be only nine thousand peacekeepers in Darfur at the beginning of 2008, along with 140 Chinese engineers whose drills to search for water will still be en route, by ship, from China...more >>
12/20/2007 | Reuters
Darfur rebels threaten to attack Darfur capital
Darfur rebels on Thursday threatened to attack West Darfur's state capital El-Geneina and told aid workers to stay in their compounds and away from government military bases...more >>
12/18/2007 | Relief Web
Sudan: ICRC Bulletin No. 54 / 2007
Civilians in Darfur are still enduring the brunt of the conflict. Needs are particularly acute in rural areas where local economies have been disrupted by lack of access to fields and markets, or to migration routes for nomadic communities, and where access to basic infrastructure and services is sporadic...more >>
12/18/2007 | Reuters
US Congress passes Sudan divestment bill
The U.S. Congress pressed for an end to the violence in the Darfur region by passing legislation on Tuesday to help investors who want to shed their holdings in companies doing business in Sudan...more >>
12/17/2007 | Relief Web
Time is not on our side' - an agenda for the Darfur peacekeeping mission
The African Union/United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID), of more than 26,000 peacekeepers, is due to be up and running by the end of 2007. However, it faces obstruction and delays by the government of Sudan and faltering commitment from the international community...more >>
12/9/2007 | Reuters
Oxfam calls for quick deployment of EU Chad force
The European Union must speed up the deployment of a force on a U.N. mission to protect several hundred thousand refugees and the aid workers caring for them in eastern Chad, a leading British aid agency said on Sunday...more >>
12/5/2007 | Sudan Tribune
Oil for Blood: Chinese are unwelcome in Darfur
“One World, One Dream" is China’s slogan for its 2008 summer Olympics in Beijing. But there is one nightmare that China shouldn’t be allowed to sweep under the rug. That nightmare is Darfur, where more than 400,000 people have been killed and more than two-and-a-half million driven from flaming villages by the Chinese-backed government of Sudan. China is pouring billions of dollars into Sudan. Beijing purchases an overwhelming part of Sudan’s oil exports and state-owned China National Petroleum Corporation, an official partner of the upcoming Olympic Games, owns the largest shares in each of Sudan’s two major oil consortia. China has been indirectly funding the Sudanese government’s war effort in Darfur by massively investing in Sudan’s oil industry. Sudan’s government receives large royalties for the declared 500,000 barrels that are pumped each day, and observers believe as much as 70 percent of this cash goes to the military. The rebel Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) attacked the Chinese-run Defra oil field in Kordofan region in October 2007, days before peace talks were scheduled to begin with the government in Sirte, Libya, warning the Chinese to Leave Sudan. Other reports indicate that the government of Sudan (GOS) uses as much as 80% of proceeds from those sales to fund its brutal Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and its allied barbaric proxy militias. It also purchases their machinery of mass destruction such as bombers, assault helicopters, armoured vehicles and all sorts of arms, most of which are Chinese manufactured. Airstrips are constructed and operated by the Chinese have been used to launch bombing campaigns on villages. China has used its Veto Power in the U.N. Security Council to repeatedly obstruct efforts by the International Community to introduce peacekeepers to curtail the slaughter...more >>
12/8/2007 | Associated Press
UN Envoy: New Darfur Fighting Bad Sign
Signs of renewed fighting in Darfur are a worrying omen for peace talks, a U.N. special envoy said Friday as he toured the troubled region in an attempt to draw reluctant rebels into negotiations with Sudan's government...more >>
12/5/2007 | allAfrica.com
Sudan: Ten Steps for Darfur - Implementation Report
On December 11, the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) is due to consider the final report of the Group of Experts (GOE) appointed on Darfur...more >>
12/6/2007 | LA Times
World court opens two Darfur probes
The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court said Wednesday that he was opening new investigations in Darfur, one targeting Sudanese government officials for alleged violence against civilians in displacement camps and the other against those who have attacked aid workers and U.N. peacekeepers...more >>
12/6/2007 | iol.ca.za
UN leader sends top envoys for Darfur talks
United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon is dispatching two top aides to discuss the make-up of a proposed UN-African Union peacekeeping force in Darfur with the president of Sudan, a spokesperson said Wednesday...more >>
12/6/2007 | Associated Press
New Darfur Probe Targets Sudan Officials
The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court announced Wednesday he was opening an investigation against Sudanese government officials for what he called systematic attacks on refugee camps in Darfur...Luis Moreno Ocampo said his office would also investigate violence against humanitarian workers and peacekeepers in Darfur, including an Oct. 29 attack on the Haskanita military base that left 10 African Union soldiers dead and 1 missing. Rebels were blamed for that attack...more >>
12/5/2007 | allafrica.com
Central Africa: European Force 'Blocked' for Now
The 4,500-strong European force expected to start arriving in Chad and the Central African Republic in November to protect aid workers and some 500,000 displaced civilians is on hold for now. The force, known as EUFOR, currently consists of 23 military personnel holed up in a hotel in Chad's capital N'djamena, 700 km west of the conflict zone...more >>
12/5/2007 | International Herald Tribune
Mia Farrow and Srebrenica survivors press China to help end abuses in Darfur
Srebrenica genocide survivors will join actress Mia Farrow's campaign urging China to press Sudan to end abuses in its Darfur region, the actress said Wednesday...more >>
12/4/2007 | Village Voice
U.N. Fails Darfur Again
Consider this a battle plan—which includes intersecting campaigns under way here and abroad—to rescue the survivors of this century's first genocide: the hundreds of thousand of lives that are at stake in the Darfur holocaust...more >>
11/25/2007 | Reuters
Gunmen enter Chad towns,beat aid staff as fears rise
Armed rebels and unidentified gunmen entered two towns in eastern Chad at the weekend and beat two foreign aid workers after rebel factions abandoned a month-old ceasefire, humanitarian staff said on Sunday...more >>
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11/23/2007 | Associated Press
Beshir defends Sudan on Darfur peace mission hold-up
President Omar al-Beshir on Friday defended Sudan against Western criticism that Khartoum was delaying the deployment of a joint African Union-UN peacekeeping force in war-torn Darfur..."We are not holding up this mission. Those who want to impose non-African forces on us are holding it up," he told reporters as his National Congress party wound up a three-day conference...more >
11/21/2007 | International Herald Tribune
EU reports little progress in search to fill gaps in military mission to help Darfur refugees
European Union military planners made little progress Wednesday in efforts to muster helicopters and other vital equipment needed for the launch of an EU mission to help refugees fleeing violence in Sudan's Darfur region, diplomats said...No nation came forward with the dozen or so helicopters without which commanders say the mission will not be able start as planned next month, said the diplomats who spoke on condition of anonymity in the absence of an official EU statement on the meeting...more >>
11/21/2007 | Scoop Independent News
Darfur Doctor and RFK Award Winner Speaks Out
For the past week the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial has had the privilege of hosting Dr. Mohammed Ahmed Abdallah, a leading indigenous human rights defender from the Darfur region of Sudan. Despite the many voices speaking out internationally about Darfur, it is not often we get to hear from those leaders born and raised in the region who are struggling on the frontline for peace and for the human rights of their brothers and sisters. Dr. Mohammed Ahmed has come to the United States to bring the message of the survivors of the atrocities in Darfur and to receive the 2007 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award for his courageous efforts to rectify the region’s human rights crisis through serving victims of torture and sexual violence and providing leadership in the movement for peace in Darfur...more >>
11/8/2007 | Newsweek
Dueling over Darfur: An online NEWSEEK debate between John Prendergast and Alex de Waal
ENOUGH Co-Chair John Prendergast debates Africa scholar Alex de Waal in an online NEWSEEK forum. The two leading Sudan experts tackle the effects of activism in shaping U.S. policy on Darfur, the changing nature of the conflict on the ground, the use of the term genocide, and more...more >>
10/20/2007 | The Times
Nobel prizewinners add names to Sudan protest
Human rights campaigners including the actress Mia Farrow and three winners of the Nobel Peace Prize have called on UBS to pull out of PetroChina’s $5 billion (£2.4 billion) Shanghai flotation over the oil giant’s links with Sudan. In a letter seen by The Times, more than a dozen international luminaries have attacked the Swiss banking group for its role as a lead underwriter on the forthcoming initial public offering...more >>
10/20/2007 | BBC News
UBS urged to drop Chinese listing
Human rights activists, including actress Mia Farrow and a number of Nobel Prize winners, are appealing to Swiss bank UBS to end its role in launching PetroChina on the Shanghai stock exchange...more >>
10/20/2007 | VOA News
AU: Darfur Refugee Camp Attacked
The African Union has confirmed that an armed group has attacked a refugee camp in Sudan's war torn western Darfur region, killing several people...more >>
10/20/2007 | Action 3 News
Darfur advocates to bring symbolic torch to Omaha
Omaha is among more than 20 U.S. cities taking part in the symbolic Dream for Darfur Olympic Torch Relay...The relay kicked off in New York City on September 9th. After crisscrossing the country, the relay will end December 10th in Washington, D.C...more >>
10/19/2007 | BBC News
Chad rebels battle army in east
There has been heavy fighting in eastern Chad along the border with Sudan two days after a state of emergency was declared in the region...more >>
10/19/2007 | Reuters
Militia attacks South Darfur refugee camp-witnesses
Government-backed militias have attacked a refugee camp over the past three days, killing six people and injuring 14 during their search for rebels from Sudan's Darfur region, witnesses said on Friday...more >>
10/19/2007 | ReliefWeb
Central Africa villagers live in fear and hiding from gunmen
A serpentine path between corn and millet fields off a main road in the Central African Republic leads to a clearing where Abner Marboua and his family have taken refuge since December...more >>
10/18/2007 | Reuters
Chadian rebels attack eastern town
Chadian rebels attacked government troops in the eastern town of Goz Beida on Thursday, humanitarian workers said, just two days after the government declared a state of emergency in the remote border region...more >>
10/15/2007 | Associated Press
EU Approves 3,000-Strong Africa Force
European Union foreign ministers gave their final approval Monday to deploy a 3,000-strong EU peacekeeping force for one year to help refugees and displaced people living along Darfur's borders with Chad and the Central African Republic...more >>
10/11/2007 | Associated Press
Aid Group Leaves Rebel-Held Darfur Town
The only international aid group in a Darfur town where rebels reported that dozens of people were killed in a government attack said Wednesday it has pulled out for security reasons...more >>
10/10/2007 | The Independent
Sudanese troops behind fatal attack on peacekeepers, says Darfur rebel chief
Darfur's most influential rebel leader has accused the Sudanese government of trying to sabotage the deployment of a United Nations peacekeeping force by burning down a military base used by African Union soldiers and killing 10 troops. The violence flared ahead of internationally-mediated peace talks...more >>
10/9/2007 | AllAfrica.com
Sudan: Attack on North Darfur Imminent
Amnesty International today warned that the northern areas of Darfur are currently in the crosshairs of the Sudanese armed forces and that further deadly attacks are imminent...more >>
10/8/2007 | The New Republic
Jimmy Carter's Shamefully Ignorant Statement on Darfur
Last week, Jimmy Carter toured Sudan as part of a group of international celebrities who are calling themselves "the Elders." Founded by Nelson Mandela, the Elders aim--in the modest words of one member, British billionaire Richard Branson--to address "problems in the world that need a group of people who are maybe...beyond politics, beyond ego, and who have got great wisdom."...more >>
10/8/2007 | Google News
Khartoum accused of widening Darfur offensive
Denis Mukwege, a Congolese gynecologist, cannot bear to listen to the stories his patients tell him anymore... Every day, 10 new women and girls who have been raped show up at his hospital. Many have been so sadistically attacked from the inside out, butchered by bayonets and assaulted with chunks of wood, that their reproductive and digestive systems are beyond repair...more >>
10/7/2007 |New York Times
Rape Epidemic Raises Trauma of Congo War
Denis Mukwege, a Congolese gynecologist, cannot bear to listen to the stories his patients tell him anymore... Every day, 10 new women and girls who have been raped show up at his hospital. Many have been so sadistically attacked from the inside out, butchered by bayonets and assaulted with chunks of wood, that their reproductive and digestive systems are beyond repair...more >>
10/7/2007 |New York Times
Rape Epidemic Raises Trauma of Congo War
Denis Mukwege, a Congolese gynecologist, cannot bear to listen to the stories his patients tell him anymore... Every day, 10 new women and girls who have been raped show up at his hospital. Many have been so sadistically attacked from the inside out, butchered by bayonets and assaulted with chunks of wood, that their reproductive and digestive systems are beyond repair...more >>
9/7/2007 |Reuters
Norway, Sweden in new territory with Darfur force
If accepted, the 400 Norwegian and Swedish army engineers offered for peacekeeping in Darfur will be far the largest Western contingent -- a bold step from Nordic countries unused to fighting overseas...more >>
9/15/2007 |Times Online
It’s D-Day – but victory is still in the balance: 31,042 reasons not to be bored by Darfur
By Tom Stoppard -- It’s coming up to crunch time for Darfur. On Friday at a high-level meeting at the UN there will be nothing else on the agenda. Tomorrow, as heads of state and government prepare to converge on New York for the General Assembly, campaigners will be demonstrating in London and in more than 30 capital cities. Are you bored yet?...more >>
9/13/2007 |SudanReeves.org
"Darfuri woman, grieving in Eastern Chad"
A Photograph by Mia Farrow...more >>
9/13/2007 |Reuters
EU force for CAR must halt army abuses, HRW says
A European Union peacekeeping force to be deployed in Central African Republic must act to halt the killing of hundreds of civilians by government troops there since mid-2005, Human Rights Watch said on Friday....more >>
9/12/2007 |ReliefWeb
Secretary-General, briefing Security Council, says credible progress made on key Darfur issues during recent "intensive and rewarding" trip to region
A Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at briefing to Security Council consultations on his visit to Sudan, Chad and Libya in New York, 12 September: I welcome this opportunity to brief the Council on my recent trip to Sudan, Chad and Libya...more >>
9/1/2007 |allAfrica.com
Sudan: Can Europe and China 'Save' Darfur?
After all the U.S. government's rhetoric about Darfur's genocide, and all its finger-wagging over the inaction of other nations, it is an instructive irony that the forces finally emerging to actually address Darfur's ills are on the other sides of the Atlantic and Pacific. Indeed, the governments that seem mostly likely to walk the walk are in France, the UK, and - surprise - China...more >>
9/1/2007 |Linkedin.com
Travelling to Darfur
Someone I know is thinking of trekking to Darfur in October or December. With the goal of simply bearing witness and helping raise awareness...more >>
9/1/2007 |Washington Post
Sudan: Darfur Rebels Killed 41 Police
The Sudanese government said Saturday that rebels from Darfur killed 41 of its soldiers in a raid outside the region, adding to fears that the conflict is spilling into the rest of Sudan...more >>
9/1/2007 |GMA News
UN: Malnutrition on the rise in Darfur
Malnutrition is increasing in Sudan's violence-wracked Darfur region along with lawlessness and the number of people fleeing their homes, a senior U.N. official said Friday...more >>
9/1/2007 |Eagle World News
Humanitarian Situation In Darfur Worsening
Assistant Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator, Margareta Wahlstrom, says the humanitarian situation in Sudan’s western Darfur region is worsening...more >>
9/1/2007 |Robert Philen
John Prendergast on Darfur
John Prendergast, who has written extensively on Africa generally and lately about Darfur specifically, has an essay worth reading posted at AllAfrica.com, “Can Europe and China Save Darfur?” Prendergast’s essay addresses...more >>
9/1/2007 |Washington Post
Pictures Capture the Killing In Darfur
He thought that by shooting the dead, he might keep others alive. But former Marine captain and Loudoun Valley High School graduate Brian Steidle has found that using his photographs to rouse the public and government officials to address the violence in Darfur is not as simple as he once thought...more >>
9/1/2007 |Telegraph.co.uk
Aid staff are caught in Darfur crossfire
Aid workers in Darfur are facing growing violence from all sides in the conflict in Sudan, as the government there steps up attempts to force hundreds of thousands of people out of the camps where they have sought refuge...more >>
9/1/2007 |Associated Press
U.N.: Malnutrition on the Rise in Darfur
Malnutrition is increasing in Sudan's violence-wracked Darfur region along with lawlessness and the number of people fleeing their homes, a senior U.N. official said Friday...more >>
9/1/2007 |Reuters
Malnutrition in Darfur reaching emergency levels
Malnutrition is on the rise in Darfur as a surge in violence prevents aid workers from reaching more people in need, a senior U.N. official said...more >>
8/27/2007 | The Independent
Mia Farrow's exclusive dispatch: I am a witness to Darfur's suffering
My first visit to Darfur was in 2004. It changed the way I needed to live my life. I have just returned from my seventh trip to the region...more >>
8/22/2007 | GuardianUnlimited
At Stake in Sudan
This trace of hope offers a rare chance for Darfur. The global consequences could hardly be greater -- Václav Havel...more >>
8/21/2007 | BBC News
Deadly clashes in camp in Darfur
A police officer has been killed and four people have been injured in clashes in Kalma camp in Darfur, Sudan's UK ambassador has told the BBC...more >>
8/15/2007 | theHill.com
GOP lawmakers call for boycott of Olympics
Eight House Republicans have called for a boycott of next year’s Olympics in Beijing in a resolution introduced just before the congressional recess...more >>
8/15/2007 | VOAnews.com
Rights Activists, Genocide Survivors Pressure China to Act on Darfur
Actors, athletes and politicians from Europe and the United States have joined genocide survivors from Rwanda and Darfur to put pressure on Olympic host China to help end genocide in Darfur. For VOA, Thomas Rippe has more from Kigali, where the gathering was held... more >>
8/15/2007 | Reuters
China a key to Darfur peace-activists
China must stop supplying weapons to Sudan and curb ties with the country to help halt killings in the war-torn region of Darfur, activists said on Wednesday...more >>
8/14/2007 | NYTimes
The Death Toll in Darfur
On Sunday, the Times ran an op-ed piece suggesting that the Save Darfur Coalition was exaggerating the scale of genocide in Darfur and that the number of deaths was perhaps 200,000 rather than 400,000. I happened to be hiking with my kids around Mt. Hood then, but I came back to find my email account burning up with indignant emails about the essay (written, I hasten to add, by an outsider)...more >>
8/1/2007 | NYTimes
Sudan Agrees to U.N. Peacekeepers to Complement African Union Force
Sudan’s foreign minister told reporters Wednesday that the government supported the deployment of a United Nations peacekeeping force for Darfur, as authorized by the Security Council, while a number of countries in Africa, Asia and Europe volunteered to send troops to join it....more >>
7/31/2007 | Scientific American
MSF sees 'alarming' malnutrition among CAR refugees
Young children among tens of thousands of refugees who fled civil war in the Central African Republic are suffering "alarming" malnutrition and need immediate aid, Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said on Tuesday...more >>
6/27/2007 | Reuters
U.N. concerned as violence escalates in Darfur
Murder, rape and abductions are on the rise in West Darfur state, the United Nations said on Wednesday, noting with concern that increased violence in the lawless Sudanese region had driven more people into camps...more >>
6/26/2007 | Amnesty International
Central African Republic: Law and order collapsing as civilians flee violence and killings
The nation accused of aiding the killings in Darfur provides spies in Iraq. In return, it gets access in Washington
Amnesty International today warned that hundreds of thousands of civilians are at risk in the Central African Republic (CAR), as violence in neighbouring Sudan and Chad continues unabated.
"As attention remains focused on Darfur and eastern Chad, armed conflict and lawlessness in northern Central African Republic are spiralling, virtually unnoticed by the international community," said Godfrey Byaruhanga, an Amnesty International researcher who recently returned from southern Chad and the CAR...more >>
6/25/2007 | Doctors Without Borders
Insecurity In Central African Republic Threatens Lives of Civilians and Aid Workers, Blocking Urgent Medical Care
All mobile medical activities in northwest suspended after shooting death of MSF staff member
The insecurity that prevails in northwestern Central African Republic (CAR) is severely impacting civilian populations and the humanitarian workers assisting them, Doctors Without Borders/ Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said today...more >>
6/24/2007 | Forbes
Rice Warns Against Conditions for Darfur
The world has fallen down on the job of ending the violence in Sudan's Darfur region, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Sunday as she welcomed the fresh energy that France's new conservative-led government has put to the cause...more >>
6/11/2007 | Los Angeles Times
U.S. relies on Sudan despite condemning it
The nation accused of aiding the killings in Darfur provides spies in Iraq. In return, it gets access in Washington
Sudan has secretly worked with the CIA to spy on the insurgency in Iraq, an example of how the U.S. has continued to cooperate with the Sudanese regime even while condemning its suspected role in the killing of tens of thousands of civilians in Darfur...more >>
6/8/2007 | Doctors Without Borders
With Focus on Darfur, Emergency Situation Unfolding in Eastern Chad
150,000 IDPs lack assistance; MSF aid hindered
While Darfur remains the focus of intense political discussions surrounding the establishment of humanitarian corridors from Chad–of little relation to the reality on the ground—150,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) are caught up in a growing humanitarian crisis in Chad itself, the medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said today. Although a recent MSF survey has confirmed an emergency situation, assistance is still largely insufficient and MSF is confronting numerous obstacles to increasing its activities in inside Chad...more >>
6/6/2007 | KTVU.com
Activists Use Web To Monitor Abuses In Darfur
Human-rights activists are using high-resolution satellite cameras to keep watch over imperiled villages in the Darfur region of Sudan and posting the images online to enlist help preventing violence...more >>
5/31/2007 | BET.com
NBA Player Protesting Genocide in Sudan
When the images of senseless murders, disease and starvation in the Sudan's Darfur region were brought to life in the movie "Hotel Rwanda," Cleveland Cavaliers forward Ira Newble decided those problems needed a slam dunk...more >>
5/31/2007 | Washington Post
Denying Genocide in Darfur -- and Americans Their Coca-Cola
The Iraq war gave us Baghdad Bob, the Iraqi information minister who, while American troops patrolled nearby streets, held a defiant news conference to proclaim that there were no U.S. forces in the city.
Baghdad Bob, whose real name is Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, earned a place among the ranks of colorful propagandists such as Hanoi Hannah and Tokyo Rose. Now, the genocidal Sudanese government has an entry in this category. Let's call him Khartoum Karl...more >>
5/29/2007 | Reuters
3,000 Darfur refugees in CAR after 10-day trek
BANGUI, May 29 (Reuters) - An estimated 3,000 Sudanese refugees driven from their homes by fighting in Darfur trekked for 10 days through the bush to seek shelter in Central African Republic, United Nations officials said on Tuesday...more >>
5/11/2007 | Reuters
Spielberg joins Hollywood chorus on Darfur
Director Steven Spielberg on Friday joined the chorus of Hollywood stars seeking an end to killing in the Darfur region of Sudan by calling on China to pressure the African nation into accepting U.N. peacekeepers. Spielberg, the Oscar-winning director of blockbuster films ranging from "Jaws" to "Schindler's List," released a letter he sent to Chinese President Hu Jintao in April saying he recently came to understand China's strategic support of Sudan...more >>
5/9/2007 | Reuters
CHAD: New wave of displaced leaves aid workers floundering
The United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) have revised earlier appeals for emergency assistance in eastern Chad largely due to a sudden increase in the number of people displaced by violence in the area...more >>
5/1/2007 | Reuters
Fidelity. Berkshire targeted over PetroChina
Fidelity Investments and Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. are the targets of a new campaign pushing them to divest their stakes in PetroChina Co. because of the Chinese oil company's alleged ties to genocide in Sudan...more >>
4/30/2007 | Bloomberg
Why Buffett's Berkshire Should Divest PetroChina
PetroChina Co. isn't the kind of company that fits the classic mold of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc.
While PetroChina may have a profitable future and franchise in the world's most populous country, one increasingly ravenous for petroleum products, there are some compelling corporate- governance reasons to divest...more >>
4/26/2007 | wsj.com
Activists Turn Up Heat on Beijing Olympics
The Olympic torch is increasingly lighting up political controversy for China.
Today, the host of the 2008 Summer Games plans to reveal the route of the torch relay that will carry the Olympic flame into Beijing. But in what may be a prelude of things to come, four people were detained on Mount Everest yesterday for protesting a proposal to carry the flame up the world's tallest mountain, on the border with politically sensitive Tibet...more >>
4/22/2007 | bostonglobe.com
The unending agony of Darfur
AFTER FOUR years of ethnic cleansing and genocide in Darfur, the governments of the world have yet to do anything that could actually stop the slaughter, protect the millions of villagers trapped in wretched refugee camps, and help them return to their villages...more >>
4/19/2007 | voanews.com
Experts, Activists Urge Bush to Take Stronger Action on Darfur
Experts and activists appearing before a congressional committee have urged President Bush to take stronger action to pressure the Sudanese government to comply with international demands for a 20,000 - strong United Nations and African peacekeeping force for Darfur. VOA's Dan Robinson reports, the calls follow the president's warning to Khartoum that the U.S. will tighten financial and other sanctions if more progress is not forthcoming...more >>
4/19/2007 | bbc.com
Rolls-Royce to pull out of Sudan
British aerospace firm Rolls-Royce is to pull out of Sudan in light of its concerns about the worsening humanitarian situation in Darfur...more >>
4/17/2007 | unausa.org
Poll Says Chinese Want to Help Darfur
Until China started to worry a little about its image as the 2008 Beijing Olympics drew closer, the Chinese were seen as the stumbling block to any meaningful international intervention in Darfur, the miserable corner of western Sudan where deaths number in the hundreds of thousands and 2 million terrorized people are on the run. But a groundbreaking new poll shows that China's official policy may have been out of line with public opinion among the Chinese people, who strongly support action anywhere human rights abuses are severe...more >>
4/16/2007 | rocktownweekly.com
Darfur Miracle?
Because the entertainment industry is so vast and pervasive in our culture — and around the globe — people are used to celebrities doing stupid things, saying inane things and behaving in bizarre ways, often after having ingested various legal or illegal substances. So it is inspiring to hear that an actress — Mia Farrow — may have succeeded in a humanitarian achievement where the entire world has failed — she may have helped end the genocide in Darfur... more >>
4/13/2007 | NYTimes.com
Darfur Collides With Olympics, and China Yields
For the past two years, China has protected the Sudanese government as the United States and Britain have pushed for United Nations Security Council sanctions against Sudan for the violence in Darfur... more >>
3/12/2007 | NYTimes.com
U.N. Faults Sudan Government for Darfur Crisis
A high-level United Nations mission to Darfur said today that the Sudanese government had organized and taken part in human rights crimes against its own population and that international action to stop the killings and rapes had been inadequate... more >>
3/12/2007 | Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), www.ohchr.org
Report of the High-Level Mission to assess the human rights situation in Darfur and the needs of Sudan (.doc)
Mandated by Human Rights Council decision S-4/101 to assess the human rights situation in Darfur and the needs of the Sudan in this regard, members of the High-Level Mission on the situation of human rights in Darfur carried out their programme of work from 5 February 2007 to 5 March 2007 in Geneva, Addis Ababa, N’Djamena, Abeche and the refugee camps of Eastern Chad, meeting hundreds of relevant persons, reviewing thousands of pages of documents, assessing the human rights situation and corresponding needs, and preparing its report to the Human Rights Council... more >>
3/11/2007 | Reuters.com
[Mia: The humanitarian situation in Darfur is indeed in "freefall"]
Rape haunts women of Darfur
The 25-year-old Darfuri woman was raped in front of her two young children, whose screams haunted her during an attack which she is too ashamed to tell her husband about... more >>
3/9/2007 | SudanReeves.org
Human Security in Darfur and Eastern Chad: A Remorseless Deterioration
Despite desperate pleas from both civilians and aid organizations, in Darfur as well as in eastern Chad, security continues to deteriorate badly in the greater humanitarian theater---threatening lives, livelihoods, and all humanitarian operations. Nor is there any prospect of an adequate or timely international protection response to these deepening, inter-related security crises... more >>
3/10/2007 | Reuters.com
More Darfuris flee, begging for U.N. troops to help
Four years after the Darfur conflict erupted, new refugees continue to pour into growing makeshift camps telling of murder, pillage and rape... more >>
3/7/2007 | Reuters.com
U.S. says Darfur genocide continues, rights abuses rife
Washington issued a damning human rights report on Sudan, saying genocide in Darfur continued and blaming both government and rebel forces for attacks in the remote region... more >>
3/6/2007 | CNN.com
Darfur crisis tops U.S. list of world's worst abuses
The continuing genocide in Sudan's troubled Darfur region was the world's worst human rights abuse last year, the United States said Tuesday in a global report that found freedoms eroding in numerous other nations, including U.S. allies Afghanistan and Iraq... more >>
3/5/2007 | VOA News
Lack of UN Peacekeepers Keeps Darfur on Edge
Last August, the U.N. Security Council approved unanimously a resolution to send more than 20,000 peacekeepers to Sudan's war-torn Darfur region. Resolution 1706 stirred up a storm of controversy among Sudanese leaders who accused the United Nations of attempting to colonize Sudan and suggested an international presence in Darfur would attract terrorists to the region. For VOA, Noel King is in Shingil Tobaya in northern Darfur and reports that the lack of U.N. peacekeepers is continuing to destabilize the region... more >>
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