March 29, 2024

Archives for November 2009

Finally some mainstream media coverage of impact of expulsions on women

Following the release of the Panel of Experts report last week that talked about this, we finally have a journalist with a major media organization writing on the impact of the expulsions on vital services for rape survivors. Better late than never. Thanks to Andrew Heavens at Reuters. Keep it up! Next step is for […]

Panel of Experts: SGBV is “rampant” in Darfur

In what is surely the least surprising news of the month, the Sudanese government has rejected the Report of the UN Panel of Experts, released late last week. To my shame I am only reading it now. Not all the way through it yet, I stopped my reading to blog on the section I’ve just […]

#AskUS: Responding to activists or managing them?

There is much hype among advocates about the meeting that Save Darfur’s Jerry Fowler and STAND’s Layla Amjadi are scheduled to have with Gen. Scott Gration and Samantha Power  – a meeting that will be webstreamed in real time this coming Tuesday Nov. 10. STAND is giving advocates the opportunity to vote for what questions […]

Good result: Turkey buckles

A quick update on a previous post. According to AFP, the Sudanese state media is reporting that Bashir has called Turkish President Gul to say he doesn’t have time to go to attend the Organization of the Islamic Conference scheduled for tomorrow. As the Sudan Tribune tells the story, Taha told Bashir that Israeli and […]

Audience questions from Pledge2Protect

I started off this morning with a Plenary session on Sudan at the Pledge2Protect conference in DC, with Michelle Gavin and Dr. Mohammed Ahmed Abdallah. The conference organizers had audience members submit questions for us on pieces of paper, which were to be asked out loud to us at the end. Regrettably we ran over, […]

Crowdpull: The growing influence of regional organizations

Interesting little report here from Reuters that the EU is applying pressure on Turkey not to host Bashir next week.  The signal coming from Ankara is that they will go ahead anyway, but this kind of en-masse pressure has a better shot of success than any bilateral pressure from a single European state could ever […]

Update

Hi all I just arrived in the U.S. for a final month of interviews in D.C., and then a lot of sitting in front of the computer screen drafting. I got my first three chapters off to my editor for review over the weekend, which felt good – but there is a long haul ahead. […]