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Recent coverage in the media of Waging Peace’s work includes:

The Guardian, letters, Louise Roland-Gosselin, 'African Democracy and Human Rights', 1 June, 2010

The Anniston Star, Rebecca Tinsely, 'Darfur's Invisible Killing Fields', 30 May 2010

- The Guardian, Comment is Free, Louise Roland-Gosselin, 'Omar al-Bashir's re-election is a farce', 27 April 2010

- The Independent, 'Sudan goes to the Polls but the result is already certain', Daniel Howden, 10 April 2010

- The Times, 'How to Hold a vote with an illiterate electorate and 12 ballot papers to fill', Tristan McConnell, 10 April 2010

- Guardian Comment is Free, Louise Roland-Gosselin, 'It's Far Too Early to Celebrate Democracy in Sudan' 24 March, 2010

- The Independent, Saved from the death squads: Darfuris given asylum in UK, 4 November 2009-11-02

- The Independent, Podium, Louise Roland-Gosselin: At last the Home Office has seen sense on Darfuri asylum-seekers, 4 November 2009

- The Guardian, letters, Horror of Bashir's rule in Sudan, 30 June 2009

- The Daily Telegraph, Sudan Hands Down Darfur Death Sentences, 20 May 2009

- The Independent, Sudanese War Crimes in Darfur, Letters, 8 April 2009

- The Independent, Sent back by Britain. Executed in Darfur, 17 March 2009

- The Telegraph, Failed asylum seeker murdered after returning to Darfur, 17 March 2009

- The Boston College Chronicle, Pictures That Tell a Grim Story, 12 March 2009

- Reuters,  Darfuri Children's Drawings offer Evidence of War Horror, 5 March 2009

- The Times, One small step for the ICC, a giant step for Darfur, 5 March 2009

- BBC Radio 4, World at One: ICC indictment of President Omar al Bashir at 18.30 min, 4 March 2009

- BBC News, In Pictures: Child drawings of Darfur, 4 March 2009

- The New York Times, Will Africa Let Sudan Off the Hook, 2 March 2009

- BBC Radio 4, PM: reporting on the Home Office policy towards Darfuri asylum seekers at 39.5 min, 5 February 2009

- The Guardian, The failure of UNAMID, 1 January 2009

- Reuters, UK lifts ban on deporting Darfur refugees to Sudan, 7 July 2008

- The Independent, Asylum-Seekers are Sent back to Darfur, 7 July 2008

- The Guardian, Darfur needs justice, 12 June 2008

- Sudan Tribune, Sudanese children in Chad camps are sold as soldiers - rights group, 8 June 2008

- AFP, Darfur child refugees sold as soldiers: report, 7 June 2008

- The Telegraph, Refugee children 'sold to Darfur rebels to fight', 6 June 2008

- The Guardian, Darfur's child refugees being sold to militias, 6 June 2008

- The Guardian Weekly Podcast No. 58, 29 April 2008

- CBS News, Waging Peace Against Darfur's Misery, 27 April 2008

- CBC News, 60,000 Darfur refugees detail horrific memories in petition, 25 April 2008,

- The Guardian, From Darfur with love, 24 April 2008

- The Church Times, Giles Fraser: The people cry out for action now, Issue 7570 - 18 April 2008

- The Guardian, Fooled over Darfur (letter), 1 April 2008

- The Independent, Letter to the Editor, 17 March 2008

- Radio Suisse Romande, La Terre Du Milieu (interview on the situation in the Central African Republic), 8 January 2008

- The Independent, Darfur still waiting for UN force (letters), 31 December 2007

- BBC, Ministers won Darfur Court appeal, 14 November 2007

- The Independent, Sudanese Officials ‘were allowed to interview Darfuri refugees in UK’, 5 November 2007

- The Independent, Child drawings of Darfur atrocities ‘can be evidence’, 2 November 2007

- Der Speigel, Kinderzeichnungen aus Darfur, 2 November 2007

- Radio Canada, La vérité sur le Darfour dans les dessins des enfants, 24 August 2007

- The Telegraph, ‘I just see myself as a boy with no future’, 20 August 2007

- Recirca.com, Art and conflict x2: Art as evidence, 14 August 2007

- IWPR, Drawn in Darfur: Pictures don’t lie, 14 August 2007

- The Guardian, Other views of the conflict in Darfur, 13 August 2007

- The Independent, France’s secret war in Africa, 12 August 2007

- Der Speigel, Der Tag, als man Ismael ins Feuer warf, 10 August 2007

- The Financial Times, A spur to act in the killing deserts, 6 August 2007

- Trouw, Regime in Khartoem heeft green enkele resolutie van de VN-Veiligheidsraad Uitgevoerd, 4 August 2007

- El Pais, Los dibujos del horror, 4 August 2007

- The New Zealand Herald, Children’s drawings reveal terror in Darfur, 3 August 2007

- Middle East Times, Children’s drawings show Darfur civil war, 3 August 2007

- ARD, None , 3 August 2007

- Sky News, Art of war, 3 August 2007

- La Republica, Nei disegni die bimbi del Darfur le prove dell’orrore del genocidio, 3 August 2007

- Der Speigel, Kinderzeichnungen sollen Kriegsverbrechen beweisen, 3 August 2007

- Faz.net, Kinder zeichnen den Krieg, 3 August 2007

- The Guardian, Khartoum is no friend of this fresh resolve in Darfur, 2 August 2007

- The Independent, Darfur: The evidence of war crimes, 2 August 2007

- ABC, Crisis in Darfur: Crayon depictions by children, August 2007

- The Muslim Weekly, Children's drawings ‘evidence’ of Darfur war crimes, August 2007

- The Independent, Home Office ‘collaborating with Sudan over refugees’, 13 April 2007

- The Guardian, Sanctions could help Sudan (letters), 28 September 2006

- The Guardian, Truths about lying (letters), 30 January 2006

 

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1 June 2010, letter in the Guardian, 'African Democracy and Human Rights'

 

'African Democracy and Human Rights'

Letter to the Guardian

Tuesday 1 June 2010, Louise Roland-Gosselin

 

The snubbing of the inauguration of Omar al-Bashir by Britain and the US, (World leaders stay away as Bashir sworn in for new term in Sudan, 28 May) demonstrates the hypocritical stance world leaders continue to take to the Sudanese president. In April, the international community accepted the results of Sudan's deeply flawed elections, despite evidence of ballot-box stuffing, political intimidation and violence at polling stations, in the hope of keeping cordial relations with Bashir. His indictment by the international criminal court for war crimes and crimes against humanity has been almost completely sidelined and it is believed that the US is preparing to lift trade sanctions on Sudan. Better relations with Bashir, it is thought, will bring peace to Sudan – yet talks on Darfur are at a standstill and the government continues to bomb Darfur's Jebel Marra with impunity.

For over five years the world has pandered to Sudan behind closed doors, publicly issuing empty threats, which have resulted in conditions for the people of Sudan only becoming more desperate. It is time that Cameron and Obama took seriously the threat of a man who has killed over 2 million of his own civilians.