December 13 - Expanded African Union Force in Darfur Still Lacks Personnel and a Robust Mandate

November 30 - U.S. Congress' 2005 Appropriations Bill Under-funds UN Peacekeeping By Hundreds of Millions of Dollars

November 20 - United Nations Security Council misses opportunity to halt violence in Darfur. 

November 18-19 - United Nations Security Council meets in Nairobi, Kenya, to discuss the Darfur crisis.

November 15 - Citizens for Global Solutions, along with 17 other organizations, writes a letter to the United Nations Security Council requesting specific action on Darfur.

November 9 - The Sudanese Government and the SPLA agree to stop all military flights over Darfur and guarantee humanitarian access to aid camps in the region.

November 4 - Secretary-General Kofi Annan reports to the Security Council that there are “strong indications” that war crimes and crimes against humanity have occurred on a “large and systematic scale” in Darfur.

October 28 - First contingent of expanded African Union ceasefire observation force arrives in Darfur.  Click here to learn more about the expansion of the AU force in Darfur.

October 7 - UN Secretary General Kofi Annan names members of UN Commission of Inquiry to Investigate Atrocities in Darfur.
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October 5 - UN Special Envoy Jan Pronk tells the Security Council that the government of Sudan continues to sponsor violence against innocent civilians in Darfur.

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Last Updated October 13, 2004

TAKE ACTION: Call for immediate U.S. leadership in ending the atrocities in Darfur

Convention on the
Prevention and Punishment
of the Crime of Genocide

UN Secretary General Names Members of UN Commission of Inquiry to Investigate Atrocities in Darfur
(October 7, 2004)

UN Security Council Resolution 1564
(September 18, 2004)

UN Security Council Resolution 1556 (July 30, 2004)

UN Security Council Resolution 1547 (July 30, 2004) 

Citizens for Global Solutions co-sponsored a letter with Refugees International  to The President and cc. Secretary of State Colin Powell calling for specific action on Darfur.

Citizens for Global Solutions Fact Sheet on the UN Commission of Inquiry for Darfur and the International Criminal Court (October 2004)
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Citizens for Global Solutions Fact Sheet on Darfur (September 2004)

Citizens for Global Solutions Fact Sheet on Darfur
(July 2004)

Other Reports
Secretary-General's Report to the Security Council on Darfur, November 4, 2004
Draft Report of the UN Secretary General pursuant to Security Council Resolution 1556, August 30, 2004
Sudan: Conflict in Darfur,
House of Commons Library, June 23, 2004
Sudan: Darfur Destroyed, Human Rights Watch, May 2004.
Sudan: Now or Never in Darfur, International Crisis Group, May 23, 2004
Darfur in Flames: Atrocities in Western Sudan, Human Rights Watch, April 4, 2004.
Darfur Rising: Sudan's New Crisis, International Crisis Group, March 25, 2004.

Statements on Darfur
US Secretary of State Powell, June 11, 2003
US President Bush, April 7, 2004.  
UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, April 7, 2004
UN Security Council, April 2, 2004.
UN Presidential Statement at the Security Council, May 25, 2004
USAID Assistant Administrator Roger Winters, May 6, 2004

Legislation:
U.S. Senate
Concurrent Resolution 99
condemns Sudan for its attacks against civilians in Darfur

U.S. House of Representatives Concurrent Resolution 403 condemns Sudan for its attacks against civilians in Darfur

Op-Ed articles
It's Happening Again, Mike Dewine and John McCain, Washington Post, June 23, 2004
Sudan's Darfur: An International Responsibility to Protect, Gareth Evans, International Herald Tribune, May 14, 2004 
We must stop the slaughter in Darfur, Tom Lantos, Boston Globe, May 4, 2004
Idle on Darfur, Editorial, Washington Post, May 13, 2004.

SPECIAL FEATURE
Dithering as Others Die,
Nicholas D. Kristof, June 26, 2004
Sudan's Final Solution,
Nicholas D. Kristof, June 19, 2004
Dare we call it genocide?, Nicholas D. Kristof, June 16, 2004

Andrew Natsios, Administrator of the US Agency for International Development:

"'We estimate right now if we get relief in, we'll lose a third of a million people, and if we don't the death rates could be dramatically higher, approaching a million people,' said US Agency for International Development (USAID) chief Andrew Natsios after a high-level UN aid meeting [in Geneva]." (Agence France-Presse, June 3, 2004)

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