Official referendum results released today in Khartoum confirmed earlier predictions that Southern Sudanese voted overwhelmingly for secession–99 percent in favor, according to the official results. Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir accepted the results in a ceremony also attended by Southern Sudan's President Salva
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Southern Sudan Votes on Independence
Today, the predominantly Christian and animist residents of Southern Sudan will vote in a referendum to decide whether they wish to be an independent nation from the predominantly Arab and Muslim residents of Northern Sudan after two decades of armed conflict. We…
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon on the 2010 “State of the World”
In his end-of-year “state of the world” news conference, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon described 2010 as “a big year for the United Nations,” with progress on issues from biodiversity to electoral support in Iraq and Afghanistan, but warned of challenges ahead in…
No More Wavering on Waivers: Proposed FAR Amendments Seek to Standardize Sudan Waiver Process
By Greg Jacobs
This post was written by Joelle E.K. Laszlo.
“Efficiency” and “transparency” are on the lips of many government regulatory types these days. Along these lines, the FAR Council has proposed a process for determining whether the President may waive in…
UN Secretary General Discusses Matters of Importance with the President of Rwanda
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Rwandan President Paul Kagame met on the sidelines of the General Assembly''s high-level debate, during which they discussed a range of issues, including maternal and child health. The Secretary-General thanked Mr. Kagame for promoting progress towards achieving…
Draft Peace Accord for Sudan
A committee involving the United Nations has produced a preliminary draft peace document aimed at ending the bloody conflict in Sudan’s Darfur region, in which some 300,000 have been killed and 2.7 million other driven from their homes in the…
ICC Issues a Second Arrest Warrant for Sudan’s President — This Time for Genocide
The International Criminal Court ("ICC") today issued a second arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, adding genocide to the list of charges for crimes he has allegedly committed in the war-ravaged Darfur region.The Court’s pre-trial chamber said that there…
Joyce Kinaro, et al., on Unsafe Abortion in Sudan
Joyce Kinaro, et al., (Planned Parenthood Federation of America) have posted Unsafe Abortion and Abortion Care in Khartoum, Sudan on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Unsafe abortion in Sudan results in significant morbidity and mortality. This study of treatment for complications…
Recent Scholarship on International Issues in Abortion and Other Reproductive Health Services
Suzanne Belton, et al.. have posted Attitudes Towards the Legal Context of Unsafe Abortion in Timor-Leste on SSRN. Here is the abstract:The new Penal Code in 2009 was an opportunity for Timor-Leste to allow some legal grounds for abortion, which…
International Criminal Court Declines to Confirm Charges Against the First Defendant Who Voluntarily Appeared Before It
The International Criminal Court has just declined to confirm charges against a rebel leader accused of directing the September 2007 attack that killed a dozen African Union peacekeepers in Darfur. The Court’s pre-trial chamber “was not satisfied that there was…