Full Coverage: Sudan

27.10.2005 Three activists have won the prestigious Human Rights Defender Award: Omid Memarian, a journalist and web-blogger from Iran, Salih Mahmoud Osman, lawyer and human rights activist from Darfur, and Beatrice Were, an advocate for the rights of women and children affected by HIV/AIDS in Uganda.
* The "ladies in white", wives and mothers of imprisoned dissidents in Cuba, this week received the Sakharov Prize for freedom of thought, along with Nigerian lawyer Hauwa Ibrahim and Reporters Without Borders.

27.10.2005 Tilanne Sudanin Darfurissa heikentyy nopeasti, YK:n pakolaiskomissaari kertoo. Jos Länsi-Darfurin väkivaltaisuudet leviävät, saattavat myös naapurimaat kohdata vakavia seurauksia, komissaari tulkitsee. Esimerkiksi köyhässä Tšadissa on jo nyt 200 000 Sudanin pakolaista.

27.10.2005 The situation in Sudan's Darfur region is deteriorating sharply, warns the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, who says that a further calamity there could have "a devastating impact" on neighbouring countries.

27.10.2005 U.S. Ambassador John Bolton recently called for U.N. to take action, not merely talk about the deteriorating situation in Darfur, but the arms embargo he's suggesting would be ineffective and insufficient, say Africa advocates, urging Bolton to do more.

26.10.2005 Stoves requiring less wood or charcoal fuel not only help curb deforestation and air pollutants, they also decrease the time women and children must spend outside the safety of the camp, say refugee advocates.

21.10.2005 A growing demonstration in a small park in Egypt offers dramatic insight into the situation of those forced to flee their homelands, yet shunned by officials and neighbors where they take up residence seeking peace.

21.10.2005 As violence and lawlessness escalate, African Union (AU) soldiers struggle to protect refugees displaced by the continued fighting in Sudan's western region of Darfur. Refugees International accompanied the AU mission as it monitored the humanitarian ceasefire in effect since 2004.

19.10.2005 "The monitoring of the crises in Sudan will certainly become emphasised during the Finnish Presidency of the EU," said EU Special Representative for Sudan Pekka Haavisto, who had just returned from Darfur to Helsinki.

06.10.2005 UNITED NATIONS, Oct. 6 (One World) - Extreme hunger and malnutrition could take the lives of hundreds of thousands of children in southern Sudan if the world fails to take immediate action, humanitarian aid activists are warning.

04.10.2005 Le notizie di nuovi scontri e di attacchi da parte dei Janjaweed, in cui secondo l’Unione Africana (Ua) hanno preso parte anche forze governative, avrebbero portato una delle due correnti del principale gruppo ribelle attivo in Darfur (Slm) a lasciare il tavolo dei negoziati in corso da metà settembre ad Abuja - informa l'agenzia Misna. Dopo aver definito “irrilevanti” i colloqui, e aver precisato che non hanno alcuna ripercussione sul terreno, la fazione dell’Esercito di liberazione del Sudan (Slm) che fa capo a Minni Arcua Minnawi ha richiamato i suoi “fare ritorno nei territori liberati e lasciare i negoziati”. I colloqui organizzati dall’Ua ad Abuja, in Nigeria, in realtà non erano mai realmente decollati, a causa degli scontri e delle violenze riprese proprio alla vigilia della sesta sessione del negoziato. Un ostacolo ai colloqui è venuto anche dalle accuse di pregiudizio contro il Chad dal JEM (Justice and Equality Movement), uno dei due gruppi ribelli al tavolo di Abuja, che per due mesi ha accusato il Chad di essere il "guastatore della pace".