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By
Joe Read on
May 6, 2010
(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 [...]
Posted in Conflict, Darfur
| Tagged ban ki-moon, chad, detachement integre de securite, icrc, international red cross, minurcat, sudan, un security council, united nations, wfp, world food programme
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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, [...]
Posted in Conflict, Darfur, General Human Rights, Women
| Tagged africa, aid workers, central african republic, chad, Darfur, IECAH, minurcat, ngos, nowhere to turn, Phase IV, refugees, Secretary-General, security, Security Council, sudan, UN, united nations
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By
Joe Read on
March 22, 2010
Download: Action Agenda: Realizing Treatment and Support for Women and Girls in Darfur (PDF)
Last Thursday marked the end of General Gration’s first 12 months as US Special Envoy to Sudan — an event that closely followed the one year anniversary of the Government of Sudan’s expulsion of humanitarian organizations in March 2009.
Posted in Conflict, Darfur, Take Action, Women
| Tagged action agenda for realizing treatment and support for women and girls in darfur, diplomatic leverage, elections, gender-based violence, government of sudan, hillary clinton, humanitarian programming, ngos, peace accords, scott gration, secretary of state, sector coordination, un country team, unamid peacekeeping force, unfpa, united nations, us special envoy
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By
Sarah Kalloch on
January 17, 2010
The Uganda Anti-Homosexuality Bill has sparked heated debate, both locally and internationally, surrounding the future of human rights in Uganda. If imposed, the bill will both violate the human rights of the gay community and potentially impact every citizen in Uganda who relies on international aid. Sweden has already stated their disapproval by threatening to [...]
Posted in AIDS, General Human Rights, Health, Take Action
| Tagged anti homosexuality bill, foreign aid, global post, Human RIghts Watch, Uganda, united nations, usa today, washington post
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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
Joe Read on
November 24, 2009
Last Friday, the PHR team delivered to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton a joint advocacy letter, urging that sexual and gender-based violence (SGV) programming be recognized as an urgent need in Sudan. Forty advocacy and human rights groups called on Hillary Rodham Clinton and Sudan Envoy Scott Gration to recognize the [...]
Posted in Conflict, Darfur, Take Action, Women
| Tagged amnesty international usa, arab coalition for darfur, enough project, hillary rodham clinton, Human RIghts Watch, international day to eliminate violence against women, khartoum, save darfur coalition, scott gration, sexual and gender based violence, sudan, UN, united nations
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By
Sarah Kalloch on
November 24, 2009
Between World AIDS Day (December 1) and International Human Rights Day (December 10), PHR is launching the 10,000 in 10 Campaign. We’re mobilizing 10,000 Americans, including students nationwide, to ask their US Senators to support US ratification of the Convention to Eliminate All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) in 2010.
We need your help to meet [...]
Posted in AIDS, General Human Rights, Health, Women
| Tagged 10000 in 10, cedaw, convention to eliminate all forms of discrimination, international human rights day, petition, somalia, sudan, UN, united nations, us senate, world aids day
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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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