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UN and EU Should Impose Similar Measures

(New York, May 29, 2007) – Today’s US announcement imposing economic sanctions against Sudanese government-controlled companies and certain individuals is welcome but long overdue, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch urged the United Nations Security Council and the European Union to immediately impose similar sanctions against Sudan.    » read more »

29 May, 2007 -- The following statement was issued today by the Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:    » read more »

May 29, 2007 -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid released the following statement today in response to newly announced sanctions against Sudan:    » read more »

May 29, 2007 -- Washington, DC - Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Joseph R. Biden, Jr. (D-DE) issued the following statement today after President Bush announced new U.S. economic sanctions on Sudan, intended to pressure the Sudanese government to end the genocide in Darfur:    » read more »

May 29, 2007 -- Chicago, IL--Senator Obama today released the following statement in response to President Bush's announcement of sanctions on the Sudanese government.

"President Bush's announcement today that he will finally impose tightened sanctions on the Sudanese government is welcome. But, it falls well short of what is necessary to compel Khartoum to stop the four year-old genocide."    » read more »

Calls for further action to protect human life

May 29, 2007 -- ALEXANDRIA, Va –United States Senator Sam Brownback praised President Bush today for imposing new economic sanctions on Sudanese businesses and individuals aiding the on-going genocide in Darfur.

"It is our moral responsibility as a nation to make every effort we can to stop the innocent bloodshed in the Darfur region," Brownback said. "The moral conscience of America cannot peacefully rest until the innocent are protected and those who have killed over 200,000 human beings are brought to justice."    » read more »

Bush urges Khartoum to end genocide in Darfur

29 May 2007 -- Washington –- The United States will tighten economic sanctions against Sudan for failing to end the violence in Darfur, President Bush announced May 29.

“For too long, the people of Darfur have suffered at the hands of a government that is complicit in the bombing, murder and rape of innocent civilians,” Bush said.    » read more »

May 29, 2007 -- THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. For too long, the people of Darfur have suffered at the hands of a government that is complicit in the bombing, murder, and rape of innocent civilians. My administration has called these actions by their rightful name: genocide. The world has a responsibility to help put an end to it.    » read more »

29 May 2007 -- U.S. officials say President Bush will announce new economic sanctions against Sudan Tuesday to pressure Khartoum to stop the violence in its western Darfur region.

The officials say Mr. Bush will ban another 31 Sudanese companies from doing business in the U.S. or having access to the U.S. financial system. The officials released a draft of Mr. Bush's speech to the media late Monday.

The draft shows Mr. Bush also will call for a new U.N. Security Council resolution that would expand an arms embargo to all of Sudan, not just Darfur.    » read more »

23 May 2007 -- Early next month, 13 Sudanese attorneys will participate in a program to help them represent victims of the genocide in Darfur in front of international tribunals. The training session in London is being sponsored by the litigation section of the American Bar Association (ABA). It will provide advocacy skills similar to those needed at the International Criminal Court in the Hague (ICC), which is currently pursuing arrest warrants for two Sudanese government officials cited for their alleged involvement in grave atrocities in Darfur.    » read more »

May 11, 2007 -- SUBJECT: Unexpected Urgent Refugee and Migration Needs Related to Somalia, Sudan, Chad, Other Parts of Africa, and the West Bank and Gaza

By the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, including sections 2 and 4(a)(1) of the Migration and Refugee Assistance Act of 1962 (the "Act"), as amended (22 U.S.C. 2601 and 2603) and section 301 of title 3, United States Code:    » read more »

Bill ensuring no investment in Sudan among 18 signed today

May 11, 2007 -- A bill ensuring the state’s retirement funds won’t be invested in companies doing business in Sudan was signed today by Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius.

“The horrific genocide taking place in Sudan is well-documented, and we want to have nothing to do with companies that are doing business in that nation so long as its government does nothing to stop the killing,” said Sebelius.    » read more »

Latest report on ICRC activities in the field

10-05-2007 -- While peace talks concerning Darfur continue, the ICRC remains focused on its humanitarian work in the region. It maintains its flexiblility in coping with the prevailing insecurity as it attempts to reach rural communities in need. Unfortunately, many people remain beyond the ICRC's reach and their needs go unmet.

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May 9, 2007 -- Sudan, North Korea and Uzbekistan are prominent among the most repressive regimes in the world, according to a report released by Freedom House.

The study, “The Worst of the Worst: The World's Most Repressive Societies 2007,” named seventeen countries with the worst records for political rights and civil liberties, and pointed to thirteen countries which have been on the list for five years or more.    » read more »

10 May 2007 -- Ugandan President, Yoweri Museveni and South Sudanese President Salva Kiir have reportedly given the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) rebels an ultimatum of one week to gather at the designated assembly point in Ri-Kwangba or risk being attacked by the armies of both countries. But Observers say the ultimatum is ill timed, given the fragile nature of the current peace talks between the rebels and the Ugandan government. The Kampala government disagrees saying the ultimatum would not jeopardize the current ongoing peace talks in Juba.    » read more »