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...Veronica Louis Renzi Tambura, Kamilia Ibrahim Kuku Kura, Buthiana Abbas Kambal Hassan, and Safaa Elagib Adam—came from different regions, including Darfur, Khartoum, and southern Sudan. Tambura, the first and most fluent of the speakers, spoke of how women obtained a 25-percent quota in Sudan??s government by “threatening to remove politicians from office” with the country’s “majority of women voters.” The other speakers shared their efforts in various regions of Sudan, particularly Khartoum, to provide education to women through...
While Harvard has divested from Petrochina and Sinopec—two Chinese companies that do business in Sudan??it has thus far resisted calls to divest from Tatneft...
...stories are those that report facts and events that people in power do not want you to know about. As much publicity as a headline like “Summers Resigns” gives the paper, we will still always be prouder of “Endowment Tied to Sudan?? (the story that first revealed Harvard’s stake in PetroChina, a Beijing-based oil firm) or even “Sophomore’s New Book Contains Passages Strikingly Similar to 2001 Novel.” Investigative journalism is at the heart of what newspapers ought...
...Zaghawa, Masalit, and Fur—although the former is Arab and the latter is not. In recent years, the Sudanese government has been predominantly Arab. In the western region of Sudan known as Darfur, the genocide is carried out by Arab militia groups known as Janjaweed and not Sudan??s central government. Despite the government’s official stance against attacks by the Janjaweed militia, the central Khartoum administration actively aids the militias by funding them and giving them weapons and supplies. Various intelligence agencies and international organizations have been able to trace the subtle...
...better than its predecessor. The U.S. proposal, unlike the one that passed, required member nations to garner a super majority of the vote rather than a simple majority in order to win a seat on the council. The more stringent standard was meant to prevent countries like Iran and Sudan??notorious for their gross violations of human rights—from gaining membership, as they had been able to do on the former U.N. Commission on Human Rights. We commend the U.S. for pushing for this higher standard, especially given that its own tenuous human rights record...