NewsRack: 'Civil Society' news in 'Darfur Crisis' topic for user newstrust (459-479 of 483)

Arab tribes fight each other in Sudan	3.9.2007	SFGate: Top Stories
Some Arab tribes accused of massacring civilians in the Darfur region of Sudan are now unleashing their considerable firepower against each other in a battle over the spoils of war that is killing hundreds of people and displacing tens of thousands. For... ...
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Sudan: The spoils of war	3.9.2007	Star Tribune: World
Two heavily armed Arab tribes that the U.N. says pillaged together as part of the janjaweed militias have squared off in South Darfur, raiding each other's villages and scattering Arab tribesmen.
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Chaos in Darfur on Rise as Arabs Fight With Arabs	3.9.2007	NYT: Home Page
Some of the Arab tribes accused of massacring civilians in Darfur are now unleashing their firepower against each other in a battle that is displacing tens of thousands.
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Chaos in Darfur on rise as Arabs fight with Arabs	3.9.2007	International Herald Tribune: Front Page
Some of the Arab tribes accused of massacring civilians in Darfur are now unleashing their firepower against each other in a battle that is displacing tens of thousands.
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Arab Tribes Battling in Darfur Over Spoils of War	3.9.2007	NYT: Home Page
Some of the Arab tribes accused of massacring civilians in Darfur are now unleashing their firepower against each other in a battle that is displacing tens of thousands.
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U.N. Secretary General to Meet Sudanese Leader	29.8.2007	NY Times: World
Secretary General Ban Ki-moon will press for an end to violence in Darfur and for speedy deployment there of a joint African Union-United Nations peacekeeping force.
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U.N. Leader to Travel to Sudan Area	29.8.2007	NYT: Home Page
Secretary General Ban Ki-moon announced that he would travel to Sudan, Chad and Libya to press for an end to fresh violence in Darfur.
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In Darfur, From Genocide to Anarchy	28.8.2007	Washington Post: Op-Eds
Imagine you are a U.S. Special Forces officer and you get a call: You are being posted to Darfur. Your job is to protect African villagers from marauding Arab horsemen and to show the Sudanese security chiefs that their bluff has been called -- at last, the international community is standing up to their evil schemes.
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A Crisis of Conscience Over Refugees in Israel	25.8.2007	Washington Post: World
CAIRO, Aug. 24 -- Israel's decision to close its doors to asylum-seekers from Darfur and all other non-Jewish refugees has Israelis and Jews around the world struggling with their distinct identities of Israel: a Jewish state with a Jewish people, or a state born from the Holocaust with a...
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Human Rights Group: Sudan Violating Arms Embargo	24.8.2007	WCCO: National
A human rights group said that Sudan's government continues to violate a U.N. arms embargo in Darfur and urged the United Nations to give its planned peacekeeping force for the region the authority to confiscate weapons from combatants.     ...
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Every Intervention Needs Exaggeration	22.8.2007	Antiwar.com
Excerpt: Though it is surprising the New York Times would run a story remotely critical of the Save Darfur Coalition ("An Atrocity That Needs No Exaggeration"), news of the group's fraudulent account of the death toll raises important questions for antiwar Democrats.
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Amnesty to Defy Vatican Over Rape Victims' Abortion Rights	15.8.2007	Truthout.com
Andy McSmith, The Independent UK, writes: "Amnesty International is set to defy the Vatican and risk the wrath of Catholics around the world over its decision to back abortion for rape victims."
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Concern Rises About Reports of New Fighting in Darfur	11.8.2007	NY Times: World
More than 100 soldiers may have been killed in fighting between government troops and rebels in Darfur, says an African Union spokesman.
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UN Approves Peacekeepers for Darfur	2.8.2007	Truthout.com
John Sullivan of The New York Times reports, "The United Nations Security Council voted unanimously yesterday to authorize the deployment of up to 26,000 peacekeepers to try to stop the violence in Darfur, in western Sudan, where some 200,000 people have been killed in four years of conflict."
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UN to send peacekeepers to Darfur	1.8.2007	International Herald Tribune: Front Page
The resolution passed Tuesday by the Security Council will create the world's largest peacekeeping operation, costing about $2 billion in its first year and drawing on military and police forces from the African Union and the United Nations.
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U.N. Approves Peacekeepers for Darfur	1.8.2007	NYT: Home Page
The resolution will create the world’s largest peacekeeping operation, costing about $2 billion in its first year.
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Somali Peace Conference Begins Amid Violence	20.7.2007	Washington Post: World
NAIROBI, July 19 -- The first full day of Somalia's much-delayed reconciliation conference opened Thursday in the broken capital of Mogadishu with faint hopes, much quarreling and a barrage of mortar explosions not too far away.
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Darfur's outdated script	9.7.2007	International Herald Tribune: Editorials
A no-flight zone would do little or nothing to address the reality that the greatest threat to civilians in Darfur today comes on the ground - not from the air.
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Op-Ed Contributor: In Sudan, Help Comes From Above	6.7.2007	NY Times: Editorials
A no-flight zone would do little or nothing to address the reality that the greatest threat to civilians in Darfur today comes on the ground — not from the air.
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Olympics Highlight Human Rights in China	6.7.2007	AP National
Child labor. Forced abortions. Religious persecution. Jailed dissidents. Cultural cleansing in Tibet and ethnic cleansing in Africa....
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