Darfur Peace and Development

The Office will strive to support the peace process by helping to build a favourable environment designed to pre-empt any negative developments, and promote durable solutions. By virtue of its host communities. Meanwhile, it will statelessness mandate, UNHCR is looked pursue its efforts to shift the focus of upon as a key actor that can assist the CPA parties in resolving nationality and citizenship issues. In the critical “Three Areas”, the Office will provide guidance on protection issues, and support the inter-agency framework.

In eastern Sudan, UNHCR will aim to continue providing protection and assistance to refugees and asylum-seekers, addressing the needs of new arrivals and of those involved in secondary movements; to reduce the number of refugees who are dependent on direct assistance; and to make strategic use of resettlement as a durable solution. It plans to transform eight camps into self-sustaining villages by 2012, while focusing its assistance on self-reliance in the remaining camps. Government ministries will be engaged to support the maintenance of camp infrastructure, which will be opened up to local populations. UNHCR will continue advocating for developmental, area-wide recovery programmes that include refugees. As protection cluster lead for the east, UNHCR will focus more attention on IDPs.

Escalating tensions in a camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in southern Darfur were the focus of talks between the head of the joint United Nations-African Union peacekeeping mission and senior Sudanese officials.

On Thursday, Ibrahim Gambari, who also serves as AU-UN Joint Special Representative in Darfur, met with Ibrahim Mahmoud Hamid, Sudan’s Minister of the Interior, and several top defense and police officials to discuss the situation in Kalma camp.

Mr…

14 July 2010 – In North Darfur, yesterday, Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) clashed with Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) fighters near the Adola Mountains and near Kuma, 110 km southwest and 80 km northwest of Um Kadada, respectively. The number of possible casualties has yet to be determined.

UNAMID is also currently investigating reports of similar fighting in Daba Tago, 20 km west of Mellit, North Darfur.

Meanwhile, UNAMID continues to face…

The International Criminal Court (ICC) today issued a second arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, adding genocide to the list of charges for crimes he has allegedly committed in the war-ravaged Darfur region.

The Court’s pre-trial chamber said that there are reasonable grounds to believe Mr. al-Bashir is responsible for three counts of genocide against the Fur, Masalit and Zaghawa ethnic groups, including genocide by killing; genocide by causing…

After assessing security reports for the past month, UNAMID estimates the number of fatalities due to armed conflict and criminality in Darfur in June to be at 221. The majority of these deaths, nearly 140, are believed to be due to inter-tribal fighting between the Rizeigat and Misseriya. However, no such fighting has been reported after the two tribes signed a peace accord on 28 June.

Meanwhile, the security situation in…

1. On 5 July 2010, the African Union – United Nations Joint Special Representative (JSR) for Darfur and Head of the African Union ‐ United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID), Professor Ibrahim Gambari, convened a Retreat with Special Envoys and representatives of Member States and United Nations partners. Present at the Retreat were the Special Envoys for Sudan of China, Russia, Austria, Canada, Finland, the Netherlands, Sweden, the European…

29 June 2010 – Two Darfur tribes, the Misseriya and Rezeigat Nouaiba, yesterday signed a reconciliation agreement in Zalingei, West Darfur. The ceremony, held at the local University, was attended by the Wali (Governor) of West Darfur, officials from the Sudanese Judicial and Legislative Council, senior military and police officials and members of the Native Authority, as well as officials from UNAMID.

Since the conflict began in early March between the…

Human Rights Tribune des droits humains
Volume 11, N آ؛ 2
By: Erik Friberg

At [UN] Headquarters there was not sufficient focus or institutional resources for early warning and risk analysis.†– Independent Inquiry into the action of the UN during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.[1]

Introduction

The UN is currently not organized in such that the substantial and substantive information gathered through the various mechanisms of the UN human rights machinery in Geneva is…

Volume 11, N ?? 2

Genocide prevention and the UN:

The potential of the Special Advisor to the Secretary-General

By: Erik Friberg

“At [UN] Headquarters there was not sufficient focus or institutional resources for early warning and risk analysis.†– Independent Inquiry into the action of the UN during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.[1]

Introduction

The UN is currently not organized in such that the substantial and substantive information gathered through the various…

Security Council
5158th Meeting (Night)

SECURITY COUNCIL REFERS SITUATION IN DARFUR, SUDAN, TO PROSECUTOR OF INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT

Resolution 1593 (2005) Adopted by Vote of 11 in Favour
To None Against, with 4 Abstentions (Algeria, Brazil, China, United States)

Acting under Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter, the Security Council decided this evening to refer the situation prevailing in Darfur since 1 July 2002 to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court.

Adopting resolution 1593…