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Resources page prepared by Geneviève Paul,
Bac. en Relations internationales et droit international (BRIDI), 3rd year, UQAM
Intern, The Rights & Democracy Network
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Instruments Documents Who is doing what Action area
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News
News
All Africa, Sudan - Top News http://allafrica.com/sudan
Amnesty International - Sudan News
http://news.amnesty.org/pages/sudan
Listservs
ReliefWeb via Email - Daily list of documents by Countryhttp://www.reliefweb.int/viaemail/#daily
Instruments
International
For the Record: The UN Human Rights System - Sudan - Human Rights Internet (HRI)
http://www.hri.ca/fortherecord2003/vol2/sudan.htm
UN Security Council - Resolutions
http://www.un.org/Docs/sc/unsc_resolutions04.html
See:
Resolution 1564 adopted by the Security Council, S/RES/1564 (2004), 18 September 2004
Resolution 1556 adopted by the Security Council, S/RES/1556 (2004), 30 July 2004
Regional
Assembly of the African union, Decision on Darfur, 6 - 8 july 2004, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
http://www.africa-union.org/DARFUR/homedar.htm#
Documents
In Brief
Crisis in Darfur, International Crisis Group
http://www.icg.org/home/index.cfm?id=2700&l=2
Sudan - Human Rights Overview - Human Rights Watch (HRW)
http://hrw.org/english/docs/2004/01/21/sudan6982.htm
Publications
Darfur deadline : A new international action plan,
Africa Report, no.83, 23 August 2004 -International Crisis Group
http://www.crisisweb.org/home/index.cfm?id=2920&l=1
Darfur destroyed : ethnic cleansing by government and militia forces in Western Sudan,
Human Rights Watch, May 2004 Vol. 16, No. 6(A)
(PDF) http://hrw.org/reports/2004/sudan0504/sudan0504simple.pdf
Empty promises? Continuing abuses in Darfur, Sudan,
Human Rights Watch Briefing Paper, August 11, 2004
(PDF) http://www.hrw.org/backgrounder/africa/sudan/2004/sudan0804.pdf
Images and video footage on Darfour - International Crisis Group (ICG)
http://www.crisisweb.org/home/index.cfm?id=2793&l=1
Situation of human rights in the Darfur region of the Sudan,
Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human, Rights and follow-up to the World Conference on human rights, U.N. Doc. E/CN.4/2005/3, May 7, 2004
http://www.unhchr.ch/huridocda/huridoca.nsf
Sudan: Darfur in flames: Atrocities in Western Sudan,
Human Rights Watch, April 2004, Vol.16, No.5 (A)
(PDF) http://hrw.org/reports/2004/sudan0404/sudan0404.pdf
U.N.: Darfur resolution a historic failure, New York, HRW, September 18, 2004
http://hrw.org/english/docs/2004/09/18/darfur9355.htm
Darfour: de nouvelles atrocités contredisent les affirmations de Khartoum le soutien international est indispensable pour assurer la protection des civils,
Human Rights Watch, Communiqué de presse, Londres, 11 aot 2004
http://hrw.org/french/docs/2004/08/11/darfur9218.htm (available only in French)
Rights and Democracy
Canada and the nightmare in Darfur, ending the terror, crimes against humanity and impunity.
By Jean-Louis Roy, President, Rights & Democracy, Montreal, September 3, 2004.
http://www.dd-rd.ca/english/commdoc/publications/africa/Darfur%20090304.html
Restoring the rule of law in Darfur and putting an end to impunity, Communique, Volume 13, July 2004
http://www.dd-rd.ca/frame2.iphtml?langue=0&menu=m06&urlpage=news.iphtml?langue=0&methode=2
Who is doing what ?
Institutions / NGOs
Amnesty international - Sudan Crisis
http://web.amnesty.org/pages/sdn-index-eng
Human Rights Watch - Sudan
http://hrw.org/doc/?t=africa&c=sudan
International Crisis Group - Crisis in Darfur
http://www.crisisweb.org/home/index.cfm?id=2700&l=1
Sudan Human Rights Organization - Cairo Branch (SHRO)
http://www.shro-cairo.org/
United Nations
UN Peacemaking and Preventive Action - Sudan
http://www.un.org/Depts/dpa/prev_dip/africa/sudan/fst_sudan.htm
Intergovernmental Organisations
African Union - The situation in the Darfur region of the Sudan
http://www.africa-union.org/DARFUR/homedar.htm
Humanitarian Information Center -Darfour
http://www.humanitarianinfo.org/darfur/
Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD)
http://www.igad.dj/
Sudan Information Gateway - United Nations System in the Sudan
http://www.unsudanig.org
Canadian Departments and Agencies
Foreign Affairs Canada (FAC) - Sudan
http://www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca/africa/sudan-en.asp
Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) - Sudan
http://www.acdi-cida.gc.ca/cidaweb/webcountry.nsf/VLUDocFr/_3adnnap31domk2s35ea3na_
Action Area
Action Now !
Amnesty International - Crise Soudan - Panoplie du militant
http://web.amnesty.org/pages/sdn-toolkit-fra (available only in French)
Développement et Paix -Urgence au Soudan
http://www.devp.org/testF/dossiers//dossier2.htm (available only in French)
Donate to organizations working in Darfur and Chad - International crisis group
http://www.crisisweb.org/home/index.cfm?id=2756&l=1
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