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Joe Read on
January 21, 2010
Reuters South Africa reported on Monday that Chadian official General Oky Dagache has asked the UN not to renew the mandate of the United Nations Mission in the Central African Republic and Chad (MINURCAT). While not unexpected, the Chadian government’s reluctance to extend the MINURCAT operation, in particular the military component, is concerning due to [...]
Posted in Conflict, Darfur, Women
| Tagged amnesty international, central african republic, chad, detachement integre de securite, goz beida, IDP, internally displaced persons, koku, minurcat, oky dagache, oure cassoni, sexual and gender based violence, sudan, unhcr, united nations mission in the central african republic and chad, wfp, world food programme
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By
Joe Read on
January 6, 2010
This week the African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies (ACJPS) reported on a series of attacks on the civilian population in North Darfur by Chadian rebel groups. Between December 10 2009 and January 3 2010, attacks — including mutilation, rape and killing of civilians — were documented in the cities of Malit, Alsuyah and surrounding areas. Yet no [...]
Posted in Conflict, Darfur
| Tagged acjps, african center for justice studies, african union, alsuyah, chad, Darfur, malit, un high commission for refugees, unamid, unfpa, UNICEF, united nations
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By
Jonathan Hutson on
November 25, 2009
The Save Darfur Coalition honored Darfuri women refugees at the Farchana Camp in Chad to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women on November 25 and to kick off a global campaign of activism against gender-based violence.
Women refugees in Farchana Camp in eastern Chad drew up a groundbreaking, one-page women’s empowerment [...]
Posted in Conflict, Darfur, Video, Women
| Tagged chad, farchana camp, farchana manifesto, international day for the elimination of violence against women, international human rights day, save darfur coalition
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By
Joe Read on
November 18, 2009
The UN reported last week that six aid groups have suspended operations in eastern Chad. Nearly 300,000 Darfuri refugees have fled across the the Sudan-Chad border to escape violence in Darfur. Among the groups suspending operations are the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), which reported the kidnapping of a French ICRC worker [...]
Posted in Conflict, Darfur, Women
| Tagged aid agencies, amnesty international, chad, detachement integre de securite, dis, firewood, icrc, international committee of the red cross, minurcat, nowhere to turn, refugee camps, sexual and gender based violence, sudan, unhcr, united nations
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By
Joe Read on
November 6, 2009
The World Health Organization’s representative to Sudan, Mohammad Abdur Rab, told reporters yesterday that 10 percent of children in Darfur and in South Sudan die before their first birthday, and that 15 percent of children in western Darfur were malnourished. This immense figure provides a quantitative background to PHR’s work on food security issues, as [...]
Posted in Conflict, Darfur, Women
| Tagged camp farchana, chad, food security, gender-based violence, mohammad abdur, sexual violence, sudan, UN, unhcr, united nations, us congresss, wfp, WHO, world food program, world health organization
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By
Joe Read on
October 26, 2009
You may have seen the news last week that the Obama Administration unveiled its long-awaited Sudan policy.
PHR welcomed the renewed sense of urgency in the policy but took a skeptical position on the Khartoum genocidal regime’s ability to fulfill the role of trusted partner envisioned in the new policy.
The new policy relies heavily on offering [...]
Posted in Conflict, Darfur, Women
| Tagged briefing, chad, gender-based violence, icc, international criminal court, khartoum, obama administration, omar al-bashir, rape, sudan, UN, un security council, unamid, united nations
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By
Ben Greenberg on
August 4, 2009
Wednesday, August 5, 2009 4:00 p.m.
Amnesty International USA Presents: The Ongoing Crisis in Darfur
Land Hall, Belfer Building, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard, 79 JFK St., Cambridge
Speakers: Eric Reeves (Smith College) and Sondra Crosby, MD (Boston Medical Center and Physicians for Human Rights)
Posted in Conflict, Darfur, Events, Women
| Tagged amnesty international usa, boston medical center, cambridge, carr center for human rights policy, chad, eric reeves, lin piwowarczyk, massachusetts coalition to save darfur, my sister's keeper, nowhere to turn, quincy, smith college, sondra crosby, sudan, thomas crane library
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By
Sarah Kalloch on
July 29, 2009
This week, congressional hearings will give the crisis in Darfur the attention it deserves. Using the script below, call your Senator today to urge them to ask the tough questions and demand a US plan of action on Darfur (instructions below the jump).
The United States has been without a comprehensive strategy for Sudan for too [...]
Posted in Conflict, Darfur, Take Action
| Tagged Add new tag, chad, john kerry, nowhere to turn, scott gration, senate foreign relations committee, sudan, susan rice, us senate
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By
Ben Greenberg on
June 2, 2009
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Sondra Crosby, MD is one of the four members of the [...]
Posted in Conflict, Darfur, News Coverage, Video, Women
| Tagged boston globe, chad, farchana, james f smith, nowhere to turn, sondra crosby, sudan
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By
Ben Greenberg on
May 30, 2009
UPDATE 5/31: The new PHR report, Nowhere to Turn: Failure to Protect, Support and Assure Justice for Darfuri Women, is now available at DarfuriWomen.org.
This is not my country. We get raped when we leave the camp. In my village, we could do what we wanted and there was enough food. I want to go back [...]
Posted in Conflict, Darfur, Women
| Tagged accountability, chad, farchana, farchana manifesto, justice, nowhere to return, prevention, protection, rape, refugees, report, sudan, survivors
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