Dithering over darfur? A preliminary review of the international response

International Affairs

Volumn 80, Issue 5, 2004, Pages

  Slim, Hugo ^a,b,c,d  

^a Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue   (Switzerland)

^b Oxfam GB ^*  (Switzerland)

^c BRITISH RED CROSS   (United Kingdom)

^d Patron of Merlin ^*  (United States)

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EID: 19644376362     PISSN: 00205850     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2346.2004.00420.x     Document Type: Review

References (25)

1. Kofi Annan, address to the UN Commission on Human Rights, Geneva, 7 April 2004, UN News Service, http://www.un.org/apps/news/printnewsAr.asp?nid=10377.
2. Secretary of State Colin L. Powell, Testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, 9 September 2004., Washington DC, http://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/36042pf.htm.
3. Médecins Sans Frontières were still reporting that it was taking two months from recruitment to arrival to place a medic in Darfur in May 2004: Ton Koene, MSF Emergency Coordinator, statement to the UN Security Council on behalf of MSF on 24 May 2004 at http://www.msf.org/countries/page.cfm?atticleid=DB8843B3-F57D-4054-82D6530A.
4. See for example Amnesty International, 'Looming crisis in Dafur', 1 July 2003, AFR 54/041/2003; MFR press release, 'The top ten most underreported humanitarian stories of 2003', 6 Jan. 2003.
5. See for example Amnesty International, 'Looming crisis in Dafur', 1 July 2003, AFR 54/041/2003; MFR press release, 'The top ten most underreported humanitarian stories of 2003', 6 Jan. 2003.
6. Justice Africa briefing, 'Prospects for peace in Sudan', March-May 2004, 19 May 2004, http://www.justiceafrica.org/bulletin.htm, 19 May 2004, p. 6.
7. 'Report of the Acting High Commissioner on the Human Rights Situation in Darfur', E/CN.4/2005/3 dated 7 May 2004.
8. Human Rights Watch, Darfur inflames: atrocities in western Sudan (New York: HRW, April 2004).
9. High-Level Mission to Darfur, the Sudan, 27 April-2 May 2004, Mission Report (Khartoum: United Nations, May 2004).
10. Joint communiqué by the government of Sudan and the United Nations on the occasion of the visit of the UN Secretary General to Sudan, 3 July 2004, http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/vID/746B9FE7CD9B97D485256D8001140EE?
11. UN Security Council Resolution 1556 (2004), 30 July 2004, S/Res/1556(2004).
12. UN Security Council, Report of the Secretary General pursuant to paras 6 and 13-16 of Security Council Resolution 1556 (2004), S/2004/703.
13. 'Aid agency warns of tens of thousands of newly displaced people in South Darfur', Oxfam Press release, 10 Sept. 2004.
14. Associated Press report, 7 Sept. 2004.
15. Protocol on the improvement of the humanitarian situation in Darfur', African Union press release, Abuji, 1 Sept. 2004.
16. The international response to conflict and genocide: lessons from the Rwanda experience (Copenhagen: Steering Committee of the Joint Evaluation of Emergency Assistance to Rwanda, March 1996).
17. See e.g. UNSC Resolutions 1265 (1999) and 1290 (2000) on the protection of civilians in armed conflict, and the Secretary General's four subsequent reports to the Council on the subject.
18. The responsibility to protect: report of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty (Ottawa: International Development Research Centre, 2001).
19. Justice Africa, 'Prospects fer peace in Sudan', p. 4.
20. See e.g section A of the communiqué on 'The solemn launching of the tenth meeting of the Peace and Security Council', African Union, 25 May 2004, PSC/AHG/Comm. (X).
21. UN Security Council, statement by the President, 26 May 2005, S/PRST/2004/18. This also followed a briefing of the Council by MSF on 24 May.
22. International Crisis Group, 'Darfur deadline: a new international action plan' (Nairobi and Brussels: ICG, 23 Aug. 2004); also interview with Prendergast, cited by Paul Garwood, 'International community split on ending Darfur conflict', Associated Press, 26 Aug. 2004.
23. International Crisis Group, 'Darfur deadline: a new international action plan' (Nairobi and Brussels: ICG, 23 Aug. 2004); also interview with Prendergast, cited by Paul Garwood, 'International community split on ending Darfur conflict', Associated Press, 26 Aug. 2004.
24. See Justice Africa's regular Sudan briefings at www.justiceafrica.org; Alex de Waal, 'Darfur: make or break for the African Union', Africa Analysis, no. 453, 20 Aug. 2004.
25. See Justice Africa's regular Sudan briefings at www.justiceafrica.org; Alex de Waal, 'Darfur: make or break for the African Union', Africa Analysis, no. 453, 20 Aug. 2004.