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February 20, 2023

Bush cites Rwanda's lessons in Darfur crisis 20/02-2008 04:02 (Los Angeles Times)

genocide and expresses frustration with the U.N.'s peacekeeping effort in Darfur. By James Gerstenzang Los Angeles Times Staff Writer February 20, 2023 KIGALI, RWANDA President Bush, expressing frustration that the United Nations has had a difficult time raising and deploying a sufficient peacekeeping force...

REFUGEE REMINDER 20/02-2008 03:32 (The Oregonian)

U nusually for a humanitarian aid worker, Katie-Jay Scott wears a sweatshirt with a machine gunner on the back. The figure was drawn by Mansur, a 10-year-old Darfur refugee she met in a refugee camp in Chad.

Activists Target the 'Genocide Olympics' 20/02-2008 02:08 (Business Week)

Saying China's oil purchases support violence in Darfur, human-rights groups are pressuring McDonald's and other sponsors of the...

China urges West to do more on Darfur: report 20/02-2008 01:53 (Yahoo! Asia News)

Photo: AFP Click to enlarge BEIJING (AFP) - China's special envoy on Darfur has urged the West to do more to promote a peaceful settlement to the conflict in the African region, state media reported Wednesday.

Bush Stopover In Rwanda Evokes Darfur 20/02-2008 00:45 (Washington Post)

KIGALI, Rwanda, Feb. 19 -- He looked shaken, as anyone would visiting a genocide memorial with a picture of a 12-year-old girl and a plaque with her vital information.

UN: Sudan's North-South Peace Is Fragile 19/02-2008 22:33 (Washington Post)

UNITED NATIONS -- Three years after the end of Sudan's north-south civil war, a top U.N. envoy told the Security Council on Tuesday that the foundations for durable peace 'remain fragile' because of a lack of mutual trust.

In Rwanda, Bush Mourns 2 Conflicts 19/02-2008 18:19 (The New York Times)

KIGALI, Rwanda Skeletons are still being discovered and buried in mass graves on a terraced hillside in this lush, verdant city, the legacy of the gruesome 1994 genocide in which 800,000 Rwandans, many of them children, were slaughtered in a matter of months.

Sudan army attacks rebel-held area near Chad border 19/02-2008 11:48 (Washington Post)

EL-GENEINA, Sudan (Reuters) - The Sudanese army began an offensive in the mountainous Jabel Moun area on Tuesday in its latest attempt to reclaim the West Darfur district from insurgents who took up arms five years ago.

Chinese Envoy to Revisit Darfur 19/02-2008 11:22 (The New York Times)

HONG KONG Prime Minister Wen Jiabao of China told Prime Minister Gordon Brown of Britain on Tuesday that China’s special envoy for the Darfur region, Liu Guijin, would make his fourth visit to Sudan on Sunday, China’s Foreign Ministry said.

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Action Professionals Association for the People

Aegis Trust Rwanda

African Centre for Democracy and Human Rights Studies

African Center for Development

African Center for Justice and Peace Studies

Africa Internally Displaced Persons Voice (Africa IDP Voice)

African Security Dialogue and Research (ASDR)

African Women's Development and Communications Network (FEMNET)

The Ahueni Foundation

Alliances for Africa

Amman Centre for Human Rights Studies

Andalus Institute for Tolerance

Anti-Slavery International

Arab Coalition for Darfur

Arab Program for Human Rights Activists

Association Africaine de Defense des Droits de l'Homme (ASADHO)

Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies

Centre for Minority Rights Development (CEMIRIDE)

Centre for Research Education and Development of Freedom of Expression and Associated Rights (CREDO)

Citizens for Global Solutions

Conscience International

Conseil National Pour les Libertés en Tunisie

Darfur Alert Coalition (DAC)

Darfur Centre for Human Rights and Development

Darfur Leaders Network (DLN)

Darfur Reconciliation and Development Organization (DRDO)

Darfur Relief and Documentation Centre

East Africa Law Society

Egyptian Organization for Human Rights

Femmes Africa Solidarité

La Fédération Internationale des Droits de l'Homme (FIDH)

Forum of African Affairs (FOAA)

Human Rights First

Human Rights Institute of South Africa (HURISA)

Institute for Human Rights and Development in Africa

Institute for Security Studies

Inter-African Union for Human Rights (UIDH)

Interights

International Commission of Jurists (ICJ Kenya)

International Refugee Rights Initiative

Justice Africa

Justice and Peace Commission

Lawyers for Human Rights

Lebanese Association for Democratic Elections

Legal Resources Consortium-Nigeria

Ligue Tunisienne des Droits de l'Homme

Makumira University College, Tumaini University

Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA)

Minority Rights Group

National Association of Seadogs

Never Again International

Open Society Justice Initiative

Pan-African Movement

Rencontre Africaine Pour la Defense des Droits de l'Homme (RADDHO)

Sierra Leone STAND Chapter

Sisters' Arabic Forum for Human Rights (SAF)

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP)

Sudan Organization Against Torture (SOAT)

Syrian Organization for Human Rights

Unitarian Universalist Service Committee (UUSC)

Universal Human Rights Network

WARIPNET

Women Initiative Nigeria (WIN)