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US Group Warns of Sexual Violence Against Darfur Refugees

Posted by admin on Monday, 2 November, 2009

The U.S.-based group Physicians for Human Rights says Darfuri refugees sheltering in refugee camps in Chad are subject to ongoing sexual violence. The group is calling for more global awareness of the matter in the wake of the U.S. government’s new policy on Sudan.
U.S. President Barack Obama launched the new policy last Monday. It focuses on the situation in South Sudan as well as the ongoing crisis in Darfur and calls for a “definitive end” to the fighting in the [...]