• Displaced woman, Ashia Suleiman Abbackar, with her two children Fatna, 2, and Shadia, 7, in their hut in a displaced persons settlement in Tawilla, North Darfur, after fleeing violence in their village in September.

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    Sudan: As South Split Looms, Abuses Grow in Darfur
    Serious abuses have increased in Darfur in the past six months while the world’s attention has focused on Southern Sudan’s upcoming independence, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The United Nations Security Council, which will be briefed on Darfur on June 8, 2011, and the African Union should do much more to ensure that those responsible for continued war crimes in Darfur are held accountable and press the Sudanese government to end attacks on civilians in Darfur, cease arbitrary detention of rights activists, and reform the state security apparatus.
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  • Sudan: End Mass Summary Deportations of Eritreans
    Oct 25, 2011
    The Sudanese authorities are increasingly deporting Eritreans to their country without allowing them to claim asylum, Human Rights Watch said today. On October 17, 2011, Sudan handed over 300 Eritreans to the Eritrean military without screening them for refugee status, drawing public condemnation from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
  • In Sudan, peace remains elusive
    Oct 25, 2011
    Hostilities haven't ceased despite the agreement that ended the decades-long civil war. As aid blockades and bombings of civilians continue, the international community mostly stays silent.
  • Obama Sends Military Support to Help Combat LRA Rebels
    Oct 20, 2011

    Last week the Obama administration said it would send 100 US military advisers to central Africa to help the region’s armies combat the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), a vicious Ugandan rebel group. Human Rights Watch has pressed the US government to help bring the LRA’s murderous leadership to justice, even appealing directly to President Barack Obama.

  • Malawi: Arrest Sudanese President al-Bashir or Bar His Entry
    Oct 13, 2011
    Malawi should arrest Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir or bar his entry to the country. Al-Bashir is expected to travel to Malawi to attend the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) summit on Friday, October 14, 2011.
  • UN Human Rights Council: Yemen Resolution Falls Far Short
    Oct 1, 2011
    The United Nations Human Rights Council’s weak response to the rapidly deteriorating human rights situation in Yemen betrays the Yemeni people. The Council, whose current session ended on September 30, 2011, adopted a resolution on Yemen that fails to push for either an international investigation into recent abuses or an ongoing human rights monitoring presence in the country.
  • Oral statement before the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission
    Sep 22, 2011
  • Sudan: Political Repression Intensifies
    Sep 21, 2011
    Sudanese authorities should end their clampdown on opposition party members and critics of the government. In the past three weeks alone, government forces have arrested more than 100 real or perceived opponents of the government, including the well-known Sudanese writer, artist, activist, and former state adviser on cultural affairs, Abdelmoniem Rahma, who was arrested by national security in Damazin, Blue Nile on September 2, 2011
  • Sudan: Human Rights Council should respond to violations
    Sep 20, 2011
  • Sudan: Southern Kordofan Civilians Tell of Air Strike Horror
    Aug 30, 2011
    The Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) are indiscriminately bombing civilian areas in the Nuba Mountains region of Southern Kordofan and preventing aid from reaching desperate displaced people, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch said today.
  • Joint Letter on Southern Kordofan
    Jul 29, 2011
    We, the undersigned African and International Human Rights NGOs, urge members of the AU-Peace and Security Council to order and ensure prompt deployment of an AU fact-finding mission in Southern Kordofan.
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