Gration: We don’t have all the monitoring mechanisms that we need yet

Yesterday, Special Envoy to Sudan, Scott Gration and National Security Council Director, Samantha Power sat down with Jerry Fowler of the Save Darfur Coalition and Layla Amjadi of STAND.  They discussed a wide range of topics regarding the recently released policy by the Obama Administration.
Click here to watch the complete webcast.

Gration:  [...]

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OC For Darfur strategy meeting is this Tuesday, Oct 27

Hi everyone,
This past week has been quite eventful. On Monday, the Obama administration released their official foreign policy towards ending the genocide in Sudan. This is a step in the right direction, and hopefully it’ll make a significant difference in this critical situation.
Then this past Saturday, a few of us attended the screening of The [...]

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Darfur update: New United States policy for Sudan

Hi everyone,
The Obama Administration finally released their long-awaited official foreign policy on Sudan. Here is a quick summary. The administration’s policy lays out three strategic U.S. objectives:

A definitive end to conflict, gross human rights abuses, and genocide in Darfur.
Implementation of the North-South CPA that results in a peaceful post-2011 Sudan, or an orderly path toward [...]

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U.N. Antigenocide Policy – Too Late for Darfur?

The Obama administration supports the U.N. doctrine for multinational military action to stop genocide after diplomacy is exhausted. The Responsibility to Protect doctine was endorsed by the U.N. in 2005. Now support is needed to implement it “when a new genocide” occurs. Too late for Darfur?
Supporters of implementing the doctrine include China and Russia. Opponents [...]

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Obama in Ghana – Hope for Darfur?

President Obama spoke in Ghana following the G8 summit. While encouraging Africans to take responsibility for their own future, he does acknowledge that the genocide in Darfur is not simply an African problem. He calls for an international system to oppose human rights violations and help those who have suffered. He specifically spoke out against the criminality [...]

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Darfur… still genocide

Special envoy to Sudan, General Scott Gration does not seem to be in-sync with the US State Dept.  This past Wednesday, after a series of visits with the government of Sudan, he released a statement saying
“What we see is the remnants of genocide. What we see are the consequences of genocide, the results of genocide.”
On [...]

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President Obama mentions Darfur in speech to Muslims

President Barack Obama recently spoke Cairo University “outlining his personal commitment to engagement with the Muslim world, based upon mutual interests and mutual respect.”
And he mentioned Darfur.
For we have learned from recent experience that when a financial system weakens in one country, prosperity is hurt everywhere. When a new flu infects one human being, all [...]

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