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Civil Society forum, Sudan and South Sudan, May 2013
The first session of the Civil Society Forum on Sudan and South Sudan convened in Addis Ababa on 21-23 January 2013. The second session in Addis Ababa on 16-18 May 2013. The Third session in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, January 20 - 22 nd, 2014. This event was organised by Darfur Relief and Documentation Centre in collaboration with the African Centre for Democracy and Human Rights Studies, Darfur Bar Association, Human Rights Institute of South Africa and South Sudan Human Rights Society for Advocacy. The Forum adopted 11 (eleven) resolutions addressing an array of issues in Sudan and Republic of South Sudan.
In July 2004, DRDC observed that: "Two criminal aspects underpin the ethnic cleansing in the Darfur region viz.
a) The premeditated and systematic mass killing and physical destruction – in whole or in part – of the indigenous African tribes of Darfur such as the Fur,
Massaleet and Zaghawa because of their ethnic and/or tribal backgrounds; and
b) The appropriation of the victims’ land, the confiscation of their livestock and other material wealth and in some cases for extortion of money for protection
by the militia groups in the absence of government authority."
“The roots of Darfur’s crisis lie in a history of neglect of the Sudanese peripheries, dating from colonial times and continuing during the years of Sudan’s independence. The crisis in Darfur is a manifestation of Sudan’s inequitable distribution of wealth and power"
“The government doesn’t have an understanding of what it means when women say repeatedly to different people: ‘We are being raped. We are being beaten. We are being brutalized. We are fearful.’ I do not think the people we talked to tonight understand. Ms. Graça Mandela-Machel, Concluding Press Conference, Khartoum, 4”th October 2007.
“Many of the people that we met with in Chad are giving up hope in the belief that the responsibility to protect doesn’t seem to have any meaning
or relevance in their lives and in addressing the situation in Darfur.”Professor Jody Williams, 1997 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, comments on her Mission Report on Darfur,16 March 2000.
“This report demonstrates, beyond all doubt, that the last two years have been little short of hell on earth for our fellow human beings in Darfur.
And despite the attention the Council has paid to this crisis, that hell continues today.”
"This is ethnic cleansing, this is the world's greatest humanitarian crisis, and I don't know why the world isn't doing more about it."
20 July 2017
Assault against Students from Darfur in Sudan
The Darfur Relief and Documentation Centre (DRDC) notes with concern the ongoing assault against students from Darfur in universities and higher education institutions in Sudan. The most recent incident in this respect has been reported at the University of Bakht Alruda, Al-Dewaim Town (White Nile State), where more than one thousand students from Darfur were forced to submit their resignations and abandon the university campus in protest of a series of abuses and maltreatment they have reportedly suffered in the hands of the university administration and the security forces. The students accused the university administration and the local authorities of harassment and intimidation, disruption of life and studies as well as systematic exclusion, discrimination and physical and verbal abuses, including the use of disparaging language and racist slur against them.
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12 July 2017
Decision of the US Administration on Economic Sanctions on Sudan
The Darfur Relief and Documentation Centre (DRDC) notes with satisfaction the decision adopted by the US Administration on 11 July 2017 to extend the review period accorded to the Government of Sudan (GoS) until 12 October 2017 before lifting the economic sanctions maintained by successive US Administrations on Sudan during the last 20 years. It is worth mentioning that the USA has imposed unilateral economic sanctions regime on Sudan in 1997 and it had been further strengthened in 2006 due to the criminal responsibility of GoS for massive violations of human rights and international humanitarian law in Darfur. In this decision, the US Administration outlined that it needed more review time to establish GoS’s commitment to sustained positive actions on matters listed in Executive Order 13761 issued by former US President Barak Obama on 13 January 2017.
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