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A Crisis Looms Large in Darfur
Yesterday the United Nations and the Government of Sudan released a joint assessment that begins to calculate the enormous humanitarian implications that expelling thirteen aid groups from Sudan will have on civilians in Sudan, particularly in the Darfur region. The estimates are grim: more than a million people will go without food rations by May and water could run out in some camps for ... Read More
In the News
China breaking UN embargo in Sudan: BBC report
AFP - 7/14/2008
Court seeks arrest of Sudan's Beshir for 'genocide'
AFP - 7/14/2008
ICC to Charge President of Sudan for Crimes Against Humanity
L.A Times - 7/11/2008
G-8 Summit Darfur Statement
Government of Japan - 7/9/2008
UN Peace Keepers Attacked in North Darfur
AFP - 7/9/2008
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Resources
Information on the Darfur crisis:
- Human Rights Watch, Darfur
- Amnesty International, Sudan
- Council on Foreign Relations, Crisis Guide
- Reuters AlertNet, Darfur Crisis Guide
- IRIN (Integrated Regional Information Networks, news and analysis from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs) Sudan page
- UNAMID (the United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur)
- UNMIS (United Nations Mission in Sudan, the U.N. peacekeeping operation in South Sudan)
Information on Arms Trade
- Control Arms (campaign for a global arms trade treaty)
- IANSA (International Action Network on Small Arms, a network of civil society organisations worldwide working to stop the proliferation of small arms and light weapons SALW)
- United Nations Department of Disarmament Affairs
- Comtrade (U.N. Commodities Trade Statistics Database, monitors exports of all commodities, including arms, reported by U.N. member states)
- U.N. RoCA (U.N. Register of Conventional Arms, monitors arms exports reported by U.N. member states)
- Eurostat (the Statistical Office of the European Communities, maintains statistics on arms exports)
- SIPRI (Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, independent research center on arms transfers), Arms Transfers Database
Information on Arms in Sudan:
- Small Arms Survey, HSBA (Sudan Human Security Baseline Assessment, monitors small arms and security in Sudan)
- Amnesty International, Sudan: Arms continuing to fuel serious human rights violations in Darfur, May 2007
Information on the Darfur Arms Embargo:
- The Sudan Sanctions Committee of the U.N. Security Council (oversees the arms embargo)
- The Panel of Experts on the Sudan (supports the Sanctions Committee)
Information on the International Criminal Court (ICC) charges against President Bashir and the Darfur case:
- The ICC Darfur case
- Summary of the ICC Prosecutor's request that the Pretrial Chamber 1 issue an arrest warrant for President Bashir
- The Genocide Convention
