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- Friday 8 March 2013
By Navi Pillay
March 7, 2013 - Last month, in the highlands of Papua New Guinea, a 20-year old mother of two was stripped naked and tortured until she confessed to practicing sorcery. Then she was burned alive on the local rubbish (...)
- Friday 6 April 2012
April 5, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – The statements made by South Kordofan governor Ahmed Haroun telling Sudanese troops not to bring back rebel fighters alive are "extremely worrying", the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (...)
- Friday 8 March 2013
March 8, 2013 (JUBA) - As the world commemorates International Women Day a South Sudanese civil society organisation has called on the United Nation General Assembly to consider a female successor to its current chief, Ban Ki- Moon. (...)
- Friday 29 June 2012
June 28, 2012 (KHARTOUM) - The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on Thursday urged Sudanese authorities to ensure that Friday’s planned demonstration proceeds peacefully, without mass arrests and violent measures (...)
- Saturday 10 November 2012
November 9, 2012 (JUBA) - The United Nations human rights chief today urged South Sudan to reverse the expulsion of a human rights officer in the country, noting that the action is in breach of international agreements and that the (...)
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On Abyei enough is enough 2013-06-18 05:01:47 By Deng Vanang June 17, 2013 - No one whether locally or internationally can still argue there is more hope to resolve Abyei stalemate peacefully. It has been everybody’s wish that dialogue could (...)
The arming of rebels in Sudan and South Sudan: what is the evidence? 2013-06-18 04:57:44 By Eric Reeves 17 June 2013 - News reporting in general, a great deal of analytic writing, and virtually all diplomatic pronouncements about military support for rebel groups—in South Sudan and (...)
Bashir’s decision, a material breach of the oil agreement 2013-06-16 06:21:14 By Justice Deng Biong June 15, 2013 - After its ratification by the National legislatures in both South Sudan and Sudan States, the Cooperation Agreement [CA] (Oil Agreement included) signed on (...)
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