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 …

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 …

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.

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 …

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 …

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 …

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