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What the Committee on Conscience Staff is Reading
Laws Without Justice: An Assessment of Sudanese Laws Affecting Survivors of Rape, Refugees International Report. An examination of Sudanese law as it relates to rape and a series of recommendations of change in an effort to stop the law from marginalizing rape victims and protecting offenders. (Jackie Scutari).

SUDAN: Climate change - only one cause among many for Darfur conflict An IRIN analysis of global warming as one of many contributing factors to conflict in Darfur. (Jackie Scutari).

South Sudan: Returning Sudanese Need More Help to Restart their Lives, Refugees International Report. An exploration of challenges facing the Southern Sudanese diaspora. With the return of displaced and exiled persons to the South comes a great need for lacking resources. (John Heffernan).

King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild (Azita Mamdouhi).

We Know Their Names by John Prendergast and Colin Thomas-Jensen. Prendergast and Thomas-Jensen bring attention to three genocidal perpetrators in Darfur who have not been held responsible for their actions by the United States government. (Elizabeth Milligan).

On Ban Ki-moon, Darfur, and Global Warming, from The Guardian Eric Reeves criticizes Ban Ki-moon's claim that the global warming is responsible for the genocide in Darfur, suggesting that such statements distract from Khartoum's own responsibility to preventable atrocities. (John Heffernan).

Responsibility to Protect (Elizabeth Milligan).

Times Select Subscribers (students can subscribe for free from any '.edu' domain): He Rang the Alarm on Darfur , article by NY Times Columnist Nicholas Kristof. Kristof exposes the efforts of Roger Winter, US "hero" for Darfur. Winter, after witnessing the Clinton administration's failure to protect Rwandan civilians in 1994, worked tirelessly to call attention to atrocities in Darfur as they began. (John Heffernan)


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