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Sudan Abandoning Abyei Destruction and Displacement, May 2008
HRW Index No.: 1-56432-364-1 July 22, 2008 Also available in 
Download PDF, 246 KB, 32 pgs Purchase online Download E-Book Crackdown in Khartoum Mass Arrests, Torture, and Disappearances since the May 10 Attack
HRW Index No.: 1-56432-344-7 June 17, 2008 Download PDF, 265 KB, 31 pgs Purchase online Download E-Book “They Shot at Us as We Fled” Government Attacks on Civilians in West Darfur in February 2008
HRW Index No.: 1-56432-320-X May 19, 2008 Download PDF, 258 KB, 38 pgs Purchase online Download E-Book Five Years On No Justice for Sexual Violence in Darfur
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Download PDF, 540 KB, 48 pgs Purchase online Download E-Book Darfur 2007: Chaos by Design Peacekeeping Challenges for AMIS and UNAMID
HRW Index No.: A1915 September 20, 2007 Download PDF, 1400 KB, 76 pgs Purchase online Download E-Book Sudan: Imperatives for Immediate Change The African Union Mission in Sudan This report examines the evolving role in the Darfur conflict of the African Union Mission in Sudan (AMIS), from its inception as a ceasefire monitoring body in June 2004 to its current incarnation as a major operation with a mandate to protect civilians that includes armed troops, unarmed civilian police, unarmed military observers, and support teams. HRW Index No.: A1801 January 20, 2006 Download PDF, 379 KB, 57 pgs Purchase online Download E-Book Entrenching Impunity Government Responsibility for International Crimes in Darfur This 85-page report documents the role of more than a dozen named civilian and military officials in the use and coordination of “Janjaweed” militias and the Sudanese armed forces to commit war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur since mid-2003. HRW Index No.: A1717 December 9, 2005 Also available in
Download PDF, 455 KB, 79 pgs Purchase online Download E-Book “If We Return, We Will Be Killed” Consolidation of Ethnic Cleansing in Darfur, Sudan This report documents the continuing climate of violence and insecurity in Darfur, and the urgent need for an expanded international protection force, especially near the camps that hold many of Darfur’s 1.6 million displaced persons. Just this week, as the U.N. Security Council prepared to meet in Nairobi, Sudanese security forces brazenly overran camps for the displaced persons. November 15, 2004 Also available in
Download PDF, 320 KB, 45 pgs Purchase online Darfur Destroyed Ethnic Cleansing by Government and Militia Forces in Western Sudan This 77-page report documents how Sudanese government forces have overseen and directly participated in massacres, summary executions of civilians, burnings of towns and villages, and the forcible depopulation of wide swathes of land long-inhabited by the Fur, Masalit and Zaghawa ethnic groups. The report also documents how “Janjaweed” Arab militias — whose members are Muslim — have destroyed mosques, killed Muslim religious leaders and desecrated Korans belonging to their enemies. HRW Index No.: A1606 May 7, 2004 Also available in
Download PDF, 422 KB, 77 pgs Purchase online Darfur in Flames Atrocities in Western Sudan This 49-page report describes a government strategy of forced displacement targeting civilians of the non-Arab ethnic communities from which the two main rebel groups—the Sudan Liberation Movement/Army (SLM/A) and the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM)—are mainly drawn. Human Rights Watch found that the military is indiscriminately bombing civilians, while both government forces and militias are systematically destroying villages and conducting brutal raids against the Fur, Masaalit and Zaghawa ethnic groups. April 2, 2004 Also available in 
Download PDF, 408 KB, 49 pgs Purchase online Sudan: Child Soldier Use 2003 A Briefing for the 4th UN Security Council Open Debate on Children and Armed Conflict Child soldiers were forcibly recruited by the government paramilitary Popular Defence Forces, and by northern and southern militias supported by the Sudanese government in the areas around Bentiu. Amnesty International received reports of youths picked up in Khartoum in December 2002, apparently for recruitment into the armed forces. January 16, 2004 Sudan, Oil, and Human Rights This report investigates the role that oil has played in Sudan's civil war. This 754-page report is the most comprehensive examination yet published of the links between natural-resource exploitation and human rights abuses. The report documents how the government has used the roads, bridges and airfields built by the oil companies as a means for it to launch attacks on civilians in the southern oil region of Western Upper Nile (also known as Unity state). In addition to its regular army, the government has deployed militant Islamist militias to prosecute the war, and has armed southern factions in a policy of ethnic manipulation and destabilization. The report provides evidence of the complicity of oil companies in the human rights abuses. Oil company executives turned a blind eye to well-reported government attacks on civilian targets, including aerial bombing of hospitals, churches, relief operations and schools. The report also covers the SPLM/A's role in the struggle over oilfields. The regular SPLM/A forces have carried out serious human rights abuses, including summary execution of captured combatants. Commanding officers of the SPLM/A have taken no steps to investigate or punish these crimes. HRW Index No.: 1564322912 November 25, 2003 Download PDF Purchase online Abducted and Abused Renewed War in Northern Uganda Abductions, torture, recruitment of child soldiers, and other abuses have sharply increased in the past year in northern Uganda due to renewed fighting between Ugandan government forces and rebels, a coalition of national and international organizations. This 73-page report details how a slew of human rights abuses have resulted in a humanitarian crisis. Since June 2002, the rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) has abducted nearly 8,400 children and thousands more adults, a sharp rise from 2001. The LRA has also escalated the seventeen-year war against northern Uganda's civilians by targeting religious leaders, aid providers, and those living in internally displaced persons (IDP) camps. The report draws on interviews with recently abducted children who escaped from the LRA. It gives voice to internally displaced persons living in the IDP camps that have been attacked by the LRA, and the aid workers attempting to reach these victims despite frequent LRA ambushes on relief convoys. HRW Index No.: A1512 July 15, 2003 Download PDF Purchase online Sudan: Child Soldiers Global Report 2001 From the Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers There has been extensive use of child soldiers, including some as young as ten, by both government and opposition armed forces. The government has also provided military support to the Lords Resistance Army in Uganda – a group notorious for its abduction, forced recruitment and brutal treatment of children. Armed opposition groups, including the SPLA are known to have children in their ranks. In February 2001, the SPLA cooperated with UNICEF in the demobilisation of 3,200 child soldiers. June 12, 2001 Sudan: Government Human Rights Commissions in Africa The Sudan government has been strongly and repeatedly criticized internationally on account of its human rights record, particularly from a number of U.N. committees. In 1994, seeking to mitigate criticism, the government established the Advisory Council for Human Rights through presidential decree. The Advisory Council for Human Rights is purely an advisory body; it has no autonomy and can be dissolved at will by the president. The Council does little more than coordinate submissions due to various U.N. agencies, and monitor the activities of those human rights investigators who are allowed to visit Sudan, particularly U.N. representatives. January 1, 2001 SUDAN: Landmine Monitor Report 2000 Key developments since March 1999: Both the government of Sudan, a signatory to the Mine Ban Treaty, and the opposition Sudan People's Liberation Army are believed to have used antipersonnel mines in this reporting period. On 27 March 2000, the SPLM/A officially committed to the "Geneva Call," thereby agreeing not to use antipersonnel landmines under any circumstances. Sudan's humanitarian mine action efforts continue to be seriously disrupted by the country's continuing civil war. In November 1999, the U.S. reported that Sudan manufactures landmines; Landmine Monitor has not been able to confirm this report. August 1, 2000 Famine in Sudan: The Human Rights Causes This report charges that the Sudanese government's abusive tactics, and the predatory practices of rebel forces and government-sponsored tribal militia, have turned this famine into a disaster requiring the largest emergency relief operation in the world in 1998,and the largest airlift operation since the Berlin airlift. The government spends about one million dollars a day on the war, roughly the same amount the international community spent on relief at the height of the famine. It also urges the warring parties to end looting and attacks on civilians, as well as the diversion of civilian relief aid. It calls on the Sudan government and rebel authorities to punish those guilty of such abuses. And it asks that the international community actively support U.N.human rights monitors for Sudan, either inside the country or on its borders, who would be tasked to promptly inform the world of human rights abuses, especially those that might lead to another famine. Finally, the report calls on the government of Sudan to honor the promise it made to the U.N. Secretary-General in 1998, to provide humanitarian access to rebel areas of the Nuba Mountains which have been besieged for ten years by the government. HRW Index No.: 1-56432-193-2 February 1, 1999 Purchase online Global Trade Local Impact: Arms Transfers to all Sides in the Civil War in Sudan More than one million people may have died, with millions more forcibly displaced, since today's ongoing civil war broke out in Sudan in 1983. This conflict is spreading to other regions of the country and is linked to guerrilla wars in neighboring Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Uganda. A steady flow of arms into the Horn of Africa for the past half century has fueled the fighting and multiplied its lethal impact on the civilian population. Human Rights Watch began its investigation of the arms trade feeding the Sudanese civil war in 1996, concentrating on types of armaments, sources of arms supply, channels of arms distribution, and the connection between arms flows and already identified human rights abusers. HRW Index No.: A1004 August 1, 1998 Purchase online Behind the Red Line: Political Repression in Sudan Since the National Islamic Front in Sudan took power following a military coup in 1989, it has created restrictions on daily life and political activity in an effort to maintain control. The Sudanese refer to these rules as the “red line,” and anyone who breaks the rules and crosses the line while expressing their political or civil independence is severely punished. The red line is enforced under the National Security Act, which allows security agents to arbitrarily detain anyone for up to six months without judicial oversight in secret detention centers referred to as “ghost houses,” where torture and ill-treatment are commonplace. Numerous subjects are off limits for discussion, but self-determination and slavery are especially forbidden. While Sudan has been involved in a civil war for much of the period since independence in 1956, claiming some 1.3 million civilians since 1983 as a result of targeted killings, indiscriminate fire, or starvation and disease, the conflict itself is deemed an inappropriate subject. Slavery continues today as tribal militias capture women and children as war booty in the civil war. These and other violations have created a repressive state “behind the red line.” HRW Index No.: 1-56432-164-9 May 1, 1996 Children in Combat Throughout the world, thousands of children are used as soldiers in armed conflicts.1 Although international law forbids recruiting children under fifteen as soldiers, such young children may be found in government armies and, more commonly, in armed rebel groups. Armed forces, both governmental and non-governmental, often claim that the children in their camps are there for their own protection and welfare. In fact, however, the involvement of the children in the conflict puts them in grave danger and is detrimental to their physical and mental health and development. This report concerns the ways in which children are recruited, the possible reasons for their recruitment and participation, the roles children play in combat and in violence against civilians, and their treatment by the groups that recruit them. It does not deal with all of the countries in which child soldiers are used, but only with countries in which Human Rights Watch has investigated the practice. Legal standards for the prevention of the recruitment of children and problems in applying and enforcing them are covered as well. January 1, 1996 Download PDF, 219 KB, 26 pgs Printer friendly version |
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