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Preparing for MINURCAT’s Departure (Continued)

(This blog post picks up from one written last week.)
Contrary to the agreement of UN and Chadian officials that the United Nations Mission in the Central African Republic and Chad (MINURCAT)  has “served its purpose,” the BBC reported news of clashes between the Popular Front for National Resistance (FPRN) and Chadian security forces over the [...]

Preparing for MINURCAT’s Departure: the Post-Peacekeeping Reality in Eastern Chad

Next week, the UN Secretary-General’s report on the future of the United Nations Mission in the Central African Republic and Chad (MINURCAT) peacekeeping force in Eastern Chad will be released, outlining the withdrawal of peacekeeping troops in the Chad-Sudan border region visited by PHR researchers in 2008. The report Nowhere to Turn: Failure to Protect, [...]

New Danger Facing Darfuris in Eastern Chad: Chadian Government Opposes MINURCAT Renewal

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 [...]

New Attacks in Darfur: Mutilation, Rape and Killing of Civilians

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 [...]

Campaign on Gender-Based Violence Begins by Honoring Darfuri Women Refugees

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 [...]

37,000 Darfur Refugees at Risk in Eastern Chad as NGOs Suspend Aid

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 [...]

Health Needs in Sudan Conflict Zones

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 [...]

Clinton Unveils New Administration Sudan Policy

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 [...]

Two Boston-Area Darfur Events

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)

Ask the Special Envoy to Sudan the Hard Questions

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 [...]

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