Darfur Peace and Development

Link to the Human Rights Watch 25-page report that documents human rights violations and repression in Khartoum and northern states, ongoing violence in Darfur, and the fighting that threatens civilians in Southern Sudan. It is based on field research in eastern Chad and Southern Sudan in July and August.

http://www.hrw.org/en/reports/2009/10/06/way-forward-0…

Source: Human Rights Watch, 28 February 2007

ICC Prosecutor Identifies Suspects in First Darfur Case

Source: Human Rights Watch Reports, 9 January 2007

Source: Human Rights Watch, 19 October 2006

Sudanese Government Offensive Threatens Civilians

Source: Human Rights Watch, June 2006

Summary

Since a December 2005 attack by Chadian rebels on Adré, a strategically important town in eastern Chad, armed groups have proliferated along the Chad-Sudan border, drawing on support from both countries and exploiting the freedom to move between them to step up their activities. Two of the primary protagonists from the Darfur conflict have been able to establish footholds in eastern Chad: Sudanese “Janjaweed”…

Source: Human Rights Watch, 3 June 2006

Cross-Border Attacks in Chad Underline Need for Action

NEW YORK–The U.N. Security Council must promptly secure Sudan’s consent for a U.N. force in Darfur with a mandate to ensure the protection of civilians, Human Rights Watch said today. A Security Council delegation is scheduled to arrive in Khartoum on June 5 and visit displaced persons camps in Darfur, before continuing to Chad.

Sudanese government-backed “Janjaweed” militias…

Source: Human Rights Watch, 21 April 2006

Summary

The international response to the systematic killing, rape, displacement, and looting that have characterized the armed conflict in Darfur over the last three years has been consistently too little, too late.

The U.N. Security Council has passed several resolutions raising concerns about war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Darfur by the Sudanese government, its security forces and government-backed “Janjaweed” militias against civilians from…

(Only selected portions of the report are available here. For complete version, please visit www.hrw.org)

Source: Human Rights Watch, 21 February 2006

Summary

The crisis in Darfur, Sudan, which has been trickling into Chad for the better part of three years, is now bleeding freely across the border. A counterinsurgency carried out by the Sudanese government and its militias against rebel groups in Darfur, characterized by war crimes and ethnic cleansing, has…

(Only selected portions of the report are available here. For complete version, please visit http://hrw.org/reports/2005/darfur1205/)

Source: Human Rights Watch, 9 December 2005

Summary

Since July 2003, Sudanese government forces and militia forces, known as “Janjaweed”, have committed crimes against humanity and war crimes on a massive scale during counterinsurgency operations in Darfur, Sudan’s western region bordering Chad. Civilians have suffered direct attack from land and air, summary execution, rape, torture, and the…