Archive of: News
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RELEASE: Amid Reports of Ethnic Cleansing, Sudan Activists Request Escalated Action posted July 19, 2011
UPDATE, JULY 19, 2011: The State Department has responded to the open letter. Click here to read the transcript. Citing responsibility to protect, rights groups issue open letter to President Obama CITIES NATIONWIDE — July 19, 2011 — Amid reports of government-sponsored aerial bombardment of civilians, summary door-to-door executions and evidence of mass graves in [...]
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Message from Mohamed Suleiman, President, SF Bay Area Darfur Coalition posted June 30, 2011
On June 28th 2011, Sudan Tribune reported about a conference regarding water projects in Darfur. The conference, which was held in Khartoum, has just ended. The international community and the donors will make a big mistake if they put such amounts of money in the hands of the regime in Khartoum to execute these projects [...]
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Breaking news: Californians of all faiths walking together to end genocide posted April 11, 2011
The horrors of genocide are almost unimaginable on a bright sunny day. But imagined and examined they must be if kindness and compassion are ever to rule the day on our planet. And eradicating the use of rape as a weapon of war, genocide, and other mass atrocities is just what the organizers of the [...]
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Obama Administration Appoints Senior Advisor for Darfur posted December 15, 2010
Washington — The Obama administration announced the appointment of a former diplomat to lead the U.S. efforts to resolve the seven years old conflict in the restive region of Darfur. Dane Smith, who was the former Deputy Chief of Mission in Sudan between 1986-1989, has an extensive experience in African including countries such as Liberia, [...]
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Focus on political referendum obscures trouble in Darfur posted November 22, 2010
By Morton Abramowitz Friday, November 19, 2010 Reports are trickling in of increasing government-supported violence against Darfuris, deteriorating humanitarian conditions and widespread attacks on war-torn Darfur’s beleaguered civil society. But the world has done little to acknowledge, much less address, this rapidly declining situation. Preparations for the North-South political referendum, which has potential for huge [...]
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Sudan: Halt Wave of Attacks on Civilians in Darfur posted November 15, 2010
Government Should Allow Aid to Population in Rebel-Held Areas NOVEMBER 11, 2010 (New York) – Sudanese government forces have carried out a series of attacks on civilians since August 2010 in Jebel Marra, the mountainous rebel stronghold in central Darfur, Human Rights Watch said today. The government should halt the attacks and allow access for [...]
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Special Courts in Darfur Sentence Nine Individuals, Including Four Children, to Death posted October 28, 2010
27 October 2010 On 21 October, Judge Shegifa Ali Eshag of the Special Court in Nyala, South Darfur, sentenced a group of nine individuals allegedly affiliated with the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) to death for a carjacking in Khour Baskawit, near Selia and Yaseen in South Darfur on 13 May 2010. Four members of [...]
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CJA: Seeking Justice for Survivors and Holding Human Rights Abusers Accountable Through Litigation posted September 30, 2010
October 21, 2010 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm Center for Justice and Accountability – On June 1st of this year, the Somali community celebrated a monumental victory with the 9-0 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Samanrat v. Yousuf — a case that CJA filed on behalf of five survivors of the brutal Siad Barre regime [...]
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Congressman Honda and Congresswomen Lee and Woolsey advocate for the Sudanese people posted September 24, 2010
Thank you Congressman Honda and Congresswomen Lee and Woolsey for your steadfast advocacy for the Sudanese people and your September 23 letter to President Obama! “Dear Mr. President: We write today to encourage the Administration to take additional steps to define its strategy on Sudan, including delineating benchmarks, timelines, and commitments to support both the [...]