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DARFUR WOMEN'S PETITION:
Sudan - Darfur IDP Women Petition to
UN Security Council Delegation
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January 2011 - On 10 and 11 October 2010, a UN Security Council delegation
visited North Darfur, led by British Ambassador to the UN Mark Lyall Grant, and
including US Ambassador to the UN Susan Rice and Ugandan Ambassador to the UN
Ruhakana Rugunda. The delegation met with government officials, community
representatives, including Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), and the UN.
Some IDP women leaders were able to meet with the delegation and deliver a
petition in which they voiced their concerns about the humanitarian conditions
in which IDPs are living in North Darfur. Women highlighted the lack of
implementation of the UN Security Resolutions on Darfur and the deterioration
of the security and humanitarian conditions in the camps, and called upon the
international community to take urgent action to put an end to the Darfur
conflict.
Women’s Initiatives’ partners in the IDPs camps of North Darfur informed us
that those who met with the Security Council delegation faced threats by the
Sudanese Government and had to go into hiding as a consequence of speaking out
about conditions in the IDP camps.
Read the Petition presented by the displaced women in Northern Darfur to the
delegation of the UN Security Council in English and Arabic