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

By Joe Read on April 29, 2010

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, [...]

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

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 [...]

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Two Boston-Area Darfur Events

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)

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Ask the Special Envoy to Sudan the Hard Questions

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 [...]

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Sondra Crosby, MD on Her Work with Darfuri Women

By Ben Greenberg on June 2, 2009

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Sondra Crosby, MD is one of the four members of the [...]

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