Word: sudan
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...have lasted lasted 22 years, claimed 2 million lives and displaced 4 million people, but Sudan's north-south civil war that ended in 2005 was scarcely noticed in the West. But as the conflict threatens to resume, it could wreak havoc with U.S. and international efforts to stabilize the region...
...many observers, the city of Abyei, on the fault-line between North and South Sudan, is the key to the country's future. On May 14, it exploded. What appeared to have been a small incident between rival militias on its outskirts quickly escalated into full-scale fighting, and there was little a small band of U.N. peacekeepers could do to contain...
...peacekeepers and aid workers from 23 organizations have sexually abused refugee children as young as 6 in Sudan, Haiti and the Ivory Coast, according to the charity Save the Children U.K. A yearlong investigation unearthed hundreds of incidents; many had gone unreported or the predators unpunished. The organization, which had fired several of its own staffers for sexual misconduct, has called for creation of a watchdog group to police such abuses...
Gathering 2007 field data from southern Sudan, Ivory Coast and Haiti, Save the Children found that the majority of victims were "orphans, children separated from their parents and families, and children in families dependent on humanitarian assistance." Those children without familial support were most likely to not report abuse because of powerlessness and a fear of stigmatization in their community. The study included instances of verbal sexual abuse, coerced sex, child pornography and young children trading sexual favors for food, money, soap, and even mobile phones...
...coercive humanitarian intervention in Burma wouldn't be without precedent: the U.S. funded and helped coordinate the delivery of aid without the host governments' consent during the wars in Bosnia and southern Sudan. Nor would it be illegal: according to U.N. Security Council Resolution 1674, member states have a "responsibility to protect" populations from genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity, if their own governments fail to do so (or are responsible for committing the crimes themselves). Burma's crisis--hundreds of thousands of innocents at risk of death because of their rulers' willful neglect--easily meets that standard...