Sumario: November 10, 2004: Statement by Mr. Arjan Hamburger, Deputy Permanent Representative, Permanent Mission of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to the UN, on behalf of the European Union. FIFTY-NINTH SESSION OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY - THIRD COMMITTEE. Item 105 (c) Human rights situations and reports of special rapporteurs and representatives on the "Situation of human rights in Sudan" (New York)
By June 11th, 15 countries will have held their Open Day for Peace. Preparatory meetings for upcoming Open Days are also underway worldwide. This document includes highlights from Sierra Leone, Liberia, Kosovo, Sudan and Somalia.
Letter prepared for the recent Security Council visit to Sudan, and signed by hundreds of women's organizations and networks including those in Darfur, Nuba Mountains, Eastern Sudan and South Sudan.
The letter was prepared with support from UNFPA and the UNMIS Gender Advisor's office, with input by other UN agencies.
Bineta Diop, Executive Director of Femmes Africa Solidarité (FAS), has just returned from a solidarity and fact finding mission to eastern Chad along with seven other prominent women including Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland and former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, and Benin singer Angelique Kidjo.
Femmes Africa Solidarité and its partner World YWCA successfully organised a Panel and a series of high level meetings for 6 Sudanese women in Geneva, 12 March to 18 March, 2008.
The women met with UN Delegates, foreign government ministers, ambassadors, NGO's, UN Agencies, the Special Rapporteur on the Human Rghts Situation in Sudan, Ms Sima Samar, and a broad spectrum of key contacts regarding Women in Darfur.
Darfur Peace and Development Organization is non-profit and non-sectarian. It seeks to restore reconciliation where conflict exists in the Darfur region of Sudan through advocacy and humanitarian aid to the needy people in Darfur region, without regard to race, religion, sex or national origin.
Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) sent a team of four experts to gather an in-depth picture of the lives and concerns of Darfuri women now living in the Farchana Refugee Camp in eastern Chad.
Women activists have demanded for more involvement in the implementation of the southern Sudanese peace process that followed the 9 January agreement between Khartoum and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM/A).
