Armed Conflict
Sudan’s Women: Nowhere Is Safe
Three years of war have left millions displaced, imperilled and underfunded. What do Sudan’s women say they want? Overwhelmingly, they want to go home. Pending…
The World Pledged Nearly $1.8 Billion for Sudan
The structural problem with the conference was one it shared with its predecessors in Paris and London. Neither the Sudanese Armed Forces nor the paramilitary…
Diplomacy Flickers in Washington While the Bombs Keep Falling on Lebanon
The humanitarian consequences are beginning to ripple outward. The United Nations warned this week that uncertainty over the Strait of Hormuz is threatening to choke…
Abandoned, Not Forgotten
Callamard called on the UN Security Council to extend the existing arms embargo beyond Darfur to the rest of Sudan. She also implicated the United…
A War on Women and Children
The drone war has also destroyed the infrastructure upon which civilian life depends. Between 70 and 80 percent of health facilities in conflict areas are…
Three Years into a War That Has Shattered a Nation, the World Convenes in Berlin with Fine Words and Empty Coffers
“This grim and chastening anniversary marks another year when the world has failed to meet the test of Sudan,” said Tom Fletcher, the UN’s Emergency…
Sudan: War & Humanitarian Crisis in Figures
The figures cited in this report are drawn from a constellation of UN agencies, humanitarian monitoring bodies, and field organisations. Displacement and malnutrition data come…
Don’t Diminish the UN Peacekeeping Mission in South Sudan
HRW urges Security Council members to maintain the mission’s full civilian protection mandate and calls on regional and international partners to push back against obstruction,…
Sudan: World Leaders Must Act on Ongoing Atrocities
HRW is urging the EU to join a newly formed atrocity prevention coalition, pressing the African Union to move beyond statements toward coordinated diplomatic action,…
In South Sudan, Both Sides Are Using Civilians as A Weapon
The scale of the crisis is staggering. Since clashes between the South Sudan People’s Defense Forces and the Sudan People’s Liberation Army in Opposition intensified…
War & Accountability
Women and children survived on animal fodder while European foreign ministers drafted carefully worded communiques about their deep concern!A coalition of major rights organisations, including…

