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“Latest Round of Machakos Peace Talks Breaks off with No Progress,” April 17, 2003

15 December 2004 | Early Analyses and Advocacy | Author: ereeves | 977 words

For the second time in a month, the Machakos (Kenya) peace talks for Sudan have broken off with no progress on the key issues being negotiated. On March 19, 2003 the talks were suspended when no agreement could be reached on ...

“Khartoum’s Human Rights Record Rehabilitated: The Travesty in Geneva,” April 16, 2003

15 December 2004 | Early Analyses and Advocacy | Author: ereeves | 1973 words

Fatally handicapped by a lack of diplomatic groundwork and effective leadership from the US State Department's Africa Bureau, Resolution L. 35 was today defeated in Geneva. This resolution at the annual meeting of the UN's ...

“Growing Chorus of Voices Demanding Continued Scrutiny of Sudan’s Human Rights Performance,” April 9, 2003

15 December 2004 | Early Analyses and Advocacy | Author: ereeves | 1275 words

The Southern African Catholic Bishops' Conference (SACBC), in a letter today to South Africa's Foreign Minister Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, has urged that the UN Commission on Human Rights presently meeting in Geneva continue ...

“Full Confirmation that Khartoum Has Prevented the Civilian Protection Monitoring Team from Conducting Operations Throughout Sudan,” April 7, 2003

15 December 2004 | Early Analyses and Advocacy | Author: ereeves | 1153 words

The UN's Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN) reports today that the Civilian Protection Monitoring Team (CPMT) has been grounded by Khartoum for the past month: "The Civilian Protection Monitoring Team (CPMT), ...

“Khartoum Continues to Deny Flight Access to the Civilian Protection Monitoring Team,” April 4, 2003

15 December 2004 | Early Analyses and Advocacy | Author: ereeves | 1189 words

For over three weeks the Khartoum regime has denied flight access to the US-led Civilian Protection Monitoring Team based in Khartoum; the regime has also denied flight access to the Civilian Protection Monitoring Team (CPMT) ...

“Khartoum Obstructs Operations of US-led Civilian Protection Monitoring Team in Sudan, Clearly Violating the Terms of Deployment,” April 1, 2003

15 December 2004 | Early Analyses and Advocacy | Author: ereeves | 931 words

For two weeks now, the Civilian Protection Monitoring Team (CPMT) based in Rumbek, South Sudan, has been prevented from carrying out its important work. Khartoum has denied flight access to the CPMT despite the regime's ...

“‘Sudan’s Overall Human Rights Picture Has Not Changed Significantly,’ says UN Investigator [Special Rapporteur for Sudan, Gerhart Baum],” March 30, 2003

15 December 2004 | Early Analyses and Advocacy | Author: ereeves | 1211 words

"'Sudan's Overall Human Rights Picture Has Not Changed Significantly,' says UN Investigator [Special Rapporteur for Sudan, Gerhart Baum] " This headline quotation from a "Voice of America" account of the March 28, 2003 ...

“Talisman Can’t Escape the Burden of Genocidal Complicity in Sudan,” March 24, 2003

15 December 2004 | Early Analyses and Advocacy | Author: ereeves | 1810 words

"Talisman Can't Escape the Burden of Genocidal Complicity in Sudan" Less than a week after Talisman Energy formally concluded the sale of its 25% stake in Sudan's Greater Nile Petroleum Operating Company---and thus ...

A Major Legal Defeat for Talisman Energy in US Federal District Court: A Landmark Decision, March 19, 2004

15 December 2004 | Early Analyses and Advocacy | Author: ereeves | 200 words

Eric Reeves March 19, 2003 In a 110-page ruling issued today, Judge Allen Schwartz of the US Federal District Court, Southern District of New York, has thrown out Talisman Energy's motion to dismiss the ...

Genocide in Darfur: A Growing International Strategy of Equivocation; In place of humanitarian intervention, studied avoidance of moral responsibility, December 6, 2004

15 December 2004 | Early Analyses and Advocacy | Author: ereeves | 4716 words

Eric Reeves December 6, 2004 Though genocide by attrition daily claims over a thousand lives in Darfur, adding to a total mortality figure of approximately 350,000 human beings, the once austerely clear moral character ...