Resources

Information on the Darfur crisis

• Human Rights Watch, Darfur
• Amnesty International, Sudan
• Council on Foreign Relations, Crisis Guide
• Reuters AlertNet, Darfur Crisis Guide
• IRIN (Integrated Regional Information Networks, news and analysis from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs) Sudan page
• UNAMID (the United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur)
• UNMIS (United Nations Mission in Sudan, the U.N. peacekeeping operation in South Sudan)

 

Information on Arms Trade

• Control Arms (campaign for a global arms trade treaty)
• IANSA (International Action Network on Small Arms, a network of civil society organisations worldwide working to stop the proliferation of small arms and light weapons SALW)
• United Nations Department of Disarmament Affairs
• Comtrade (U.N. Commodities Trade Statistics Database, monitors exports of all commodities, including arms, reported by U.N. member states)
• U.N. RoCA (U.N. Register of Conventional Arms, monitors arms exports reported by U.N. member states)
• Eurostat (the Statistical Office of the European Communities, maintains statistics on arms exports)
• SIPRI (Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, independent research center on arms transfers), Arms Transfers Database

Information on Arms in Sudan

• Small Arms Survey, HSBA (Sudan Human Security Baseline Assessment, monitors small arms and security in Sudan)
• Amnesty International, Sudan: Arms continuing to fuel serious human rights violations in Darfur, May 2007

Information on the Darfur Arms Embargo

• The Sudan Sanctions Committee of the U.N. Security Council (oversees the arms embargo)
• The Panel of Experts on the Sudan (supports the Sanctions Committee)

 

Information on the International Criminal Court (ICC) charges against President Bashir and the Darfur case

• The ICC Darfur case
• Summary of the ICC Prosecutor’s request that the Pretrial Chamber 1 issue an arrest warrant for President Bashir
• The Genocide Convention