ICC
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."
23 January 2014
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
“CIVIL SOCIETY FORUM ON SUDAN AND SOUTH SUDAN”
Third Session, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, January 20th – 22nd, 2014
This week, over 100 civil society activists and advocates from all over the world attended the Third Session of the Civil Society Forum on Sudan and South Sudan. The Forum was held at Bole Ambassador Hotel in Addis Ababa during the period 20 to 22 January 2014. The three-day forum covered a wide variety of issues plaguing Sudan, South Sudan and the surrounding region. Advocates in attendance were experts from Sudan, South Sudan, Africa and the rest of the world. The Forum culminated in rich intellectual discourse, recommendations for future advocacy work, and civil society resolutions as a pre-summit contribution to the 22nd Ordinary Session of the African Union (AU) Assembly of Heads of State and Government.
The Third Session of the Forum consisted of panel discussions, open sessions of questions and comments, and special presentations. While calling for an immediate end to the suffering of civilians and the expeditious signing of a ceasefire arrangement in South Sudan, the Forum also recommended that the IGAD Secretariat and the Chairperson of the AU Commission strengthen oversight and reduce ambiguity in the Final Draft Agreement on the Cessation of Hostilities Between the Government of the Republic of South Sudan and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/Army In Opposition.
December 2013
Sudan Human Rights and Humanitarian Bulletin
16 to 31 December 2013
General Observations
The human rights and humanitarian situation in Sudan continued to deteriorate during the last two weeks of December 2013. Military operations between the army and the Sudan Revolutionary Front (SRF) were reported in Darfur, South and West Kordofan and the Blue Nile States. During his address at a public rally held in Gedarief, East Sudan on 25 December 2013, President Omar Al-Bashir reaffirmed the government’s decision to pursue the military operations in the armed conflict-affected zones until the insurgency is defeated.
A. Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms
1. Violations of Civil and Political Rights
Mr. Tajeldin Ahmed Arga Ali, a 26 year-old blogger from Darfur, was arrested by NISS agents on 24 December 2013 and since then has been held in an unknown location. He was arrested in Khartoum while attending a public meeting addressed by President Omar Al-Bashir and his Chadian counterpart Idriss Déby. The arrest took place inside the Friendship Hall where Mr. Arga confronted the two Presidents and publicly blamed them of having responsibility for the killing and destruction occurring in Darfur and accused them of distorting reality about the situation in Darfur. Since his arrest Mr. Arga has not been seen in public and there are serious fears about his safety and security of person.
Click here to read the entire bulletin...
More Articles...
Darfur: AU & UN actions
Confirmed Damaged and Destroyed VILLAGES...
(click on image below to enlarge)
 |
|
| Darfuri Actvisit Hawa Jango flanked by US First Lady Obama and Secretary Clinton, after her decorartion as one of ten brave women of the World, Washington, March 2012 |
AUHIP - 4 Years of existence
The African Union High-Level Implementation Panel : Four Years of Existence !
 |
Click Here |
DECLARATION
Dar es Salaam Declaration on Reenergizing the Peace Process in Darfur
Landmark Reports on Darfur
Who's online
We have 10 guests online
 |
|
| Darfuri students sit for their annual exam, 12 March 2012 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
||||