Darfur Peace and Development

By Gene Sperling
-Who was President Bill Clinton’s top economic adviser, is a columnist for Bloomberg News and a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress. The opinions expressed are his own.

BLOOMBERG– How will today’s leaders explain their inaction in the face of what New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof dubbed, the “slow-motion genocide” in the Darfur region of Western Sudan?

For three years we have known that…

To Save Darfur
Africa Report N°105

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS

The international strategy for dealing with the Darfur crisis primarily through the small (7,000 troops) African Union Mission in Sudan (AMIS) is at a dead end. AMIS credibility is at an all-time low, with the ceasefire it could never monitor properly in tatters. In the face of this, the international community is backing away from meaningful action. The African Union (AU)…

The crime of genocide is defined in international law in the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide.
“Article II: In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

(a) Killing members of the group;
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
(c)…

Eight Stages of Genocide

By Gregory H. Stanton (Originally written in 1996 at the Department of State; presented at the Yale University Center for International and Area Studies in 1998)

Genocide is a process that develops in eight stages that are predictable but not inexorable. At each stage, preventive measures can stop it. The later stages must be preceded by the earlier stages, though earlier stages continue to operate…

The Geneva Conventions
War is an ugly business. For about 10,000 years, that remained the case.
Then the Geneva Conventions came along in 1948, and the nations of the world joined hands to transform war from an ugly business into an ugly-business-described-by-solemn-buzzwords-and-unenforceable-guidelines, which allowed countries taking part in war to disavow the ugliness of the business without actually having to conduct the business in any meaningfully different manner. This is what…

UN report on human rights situation in Sudan

Jan 30, 2006 (KHARTOUM) — Attached the second periodic report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the human rights situation in Sudan.

This report makes five key recommendations, listed below, to assist Sudan in meeting its international and domestic human rights obligations. To effectively implement these recommendations it will be necessary for Sudan to set concrete tasks and…

By Nicholas D. Kristof, The New York Review of Books

Volume 53, Number 2 · February 9, 2006

Darfur: A Short History of a Long War
by Julie Flint and Alex de Waal
London: Zed Books, 176 pp., £12.00 (to be published in the US in March)

Darfur: The Ambiguous Genocide

by Gérard Prunier
Cornell University Press, 212 pp., $24.00

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During the Holocaust, the world looked the…

TO ESTABLISH A NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC RULE

CONTENTS
Editorial: Investments and The Right to Development
Secretary-General’s Report: A Year Since Inauguration
SHRO-Cairo Observations on the Transitional Constitution
The Situation of Human Rights
SHRO Groups Inside: The Curriculum in Transition
Call to Put to Trial Murderers of the Ramadan Martyrs (1990)

Editorial
Investments and the Right to Development

Mahgoub El-Tigani

One path remains intact for successful governance: fighting state corruption, insuring public accountability, and placing national agenda above all partisan interests…

By David Morse

Aug 18, 2005 — A war of the future is being waged right now in the sprawling desert region of northeastern Africa known as Sudan. The weapons themselves are not futuristic. None of the ray-guns, force-fields, or robotic storm troopers that are the stuff of science fiction; nor, for that matter, the satellite-guided Predator drones or other high-tech weapon systems at the cutting edge of today’s arsenal.

No, this…

- Source: Irish Health – Ireland -

By Niall Hunter-Editor -

“We did have some cases where people died. To this day I have a very clear memory of a four-year old boy who was brought into our outpatient clinic late in the afternoon and one of our nurses said come right away; she looked worried in a way she normally didn’t. In the clinic there was a boy sitting on his…