Suggested Reading Materials
These documents and literature provide valuable information on current and past efforts from multilateral organizations, humanitarian groups, and other institutions.
Important Documents and Websites
Central African Republic
Documents
- Coordinated Aid Program for the Central African Republic – 2008 (PDF)
- US State Department Country Report on Human Rights Practices - Central African Republic - March 2008
- Human Rights Watch - State of Anarchy: Rebellion and Abuses against Civilians - Sept 2007
- US State Department Human Rights Report - Central African Republic - March 2007
- Internal Displacement Monitoring Center - Protection Crisis in the Central African Republic - Jan 2007 (PDF)
- Refugees International - Central African Republic: An Unknown Emergency in a Dangerous Region - Dec 2006
Darfur
For additional documents about Darfur, visit our Darfur documents page
Documents
- International Criminal Court - Situation in Darfur, Sudan
- ENOUGH - Irresolution: The U.N. Security Council on Darfur - July 2008
- ENOUGH - Memorandum to Djibril Bassolet: Building Blocks for Peace in Darfur - July 2008
- ENOUGH - Keeping Our Word: Fulfilling the Mandate to Protect Civilians in Darfur - June 2008
- Human Rights Watch - They Shot at Us and We Fled - May 2008
- Human Rights Watch - Five Years On: No Justice for Sexual Violence in Darfur - April 2008
- ENOUGH and Save Darfur Coalition - Creating a Peace to Keep in Darfur - May 2008
- US State Department Country Report on Human Rights Practices - Sudan - March 2008
- International Crisis Group - Darfur's New Security Reality - November 2007
- Human Rights Watch - Darfur 2007: Chaos by Design - September 2007
- International Crisis Group - A Strategy for Comprehensive Peace in Sudan - July 2007
- United Nations Security Council - Report of the Secretary-General and the Chairperson of the African Union Commission on the hybrid operation in Darfur - May 2007 (PDF)
- Amnesty International - Sudan: Time is Running Out to Protect the People of Darfur - April 2007 (PDF)
- United Nations Environment Program - Environmental Degradation Triggering Tensions and Conflict in Sudan - June 2007 (PDF)
- International Crisis Group - Darfur: Revitalizing the Peace Process - April 2007
- International Crisis Group - Sudan and the ICC: A Question of Accountability - January 2007
Other Key Links
- Comprehensive Peace Agreement
- Darfur Peace Agreement
- Darfur Scores
- Key AU Documentation
- Sudan Divestment Taskforce
- United Nations Sudan Information Gateway
- UNMIS - United Nations Mission in Sudan
- UNAMID - African Union/United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur
Democratic Republic of Congo
Documents
- International Center for Transitional Justice et al - Living with Fear - August 2008 (PDF)
- ENOUGH Project - Past Due: Remove the FDLR from Eastern Congo - June 2008
- ENOUGH Project - Getting Serious about Ending Conflict and Sexual Violence in Eastern Congo. - March 2008
- US State Deparment Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - Democratic Republic of Congo - March 2008
- The International Rescue Committee - Mortality in the Democratic Republic of Congo: An Ongoing Crisis - January 2008 (PDF)
- Human Rights Watch report – Renewed Crisis in North Kivu - October 2007
- International Crisis Group report – Congo: Bringing Peace to North Kivu - October 2007
- ENOUGH Project - Averting the Nightmare Scenario in Eastern Congo – September 2007
Burma
Documents
- Amnesty International - Crimes Against Humanity in Eastern Myanmar - June 2008 (PDF)
- Human Rights Watch - Vote to Nowhere: The May 2008 Constitutional Referendum in Burma
- Forced Migration Review - Burma's Displaced People - April 2008 (PDF)
- Free Burma Rangers - A Campaign of Brutality - April 2008 (PDF)
- US State Department Country Report on Human Rights Practices - Burma - March 2008
- Thailand Burma Border Consortium - Internally Displaced Persons Report - 2007 (PDF)
- American Association of the Advancement of Science - Satellite Images Report - 2007 (PDF)
- Human Rights Watch - The Recruitment and Use of Child Soldiers in Burma - October 2007
- Berkeley Human Rights Center - The Gathering Storm: Infectious Diseases and Human Rights in Burma - July 2007 (PDF)
Eastern Chad
Documents
- International Crisis Group - Chad: A New Conflict Resolution Framework - September 2008
- Oxfam International - Mission Incomplete: Why Civilians Remain at Risk in Eastern Chad - September 2008
- ENOUGH Project - Nasty Neighbors: Solving the Sudan-Chad Proxy War - April 2008
- US State Department Country Report on Human Rights Practices - Chad - March 2008
- ENOUGH Project - Is Anyone Serious About Ending the Political Crisis in Chad - February 2008
- Internal Displacement Monitoring Center - Internally Displaced in Chad: Trapped Between Civil Conflict and Darfur's crisis – July 2007
- Human Rights Watch - Early to War - Child Soldiers in the Chad Conflict – July 2007
- Amnesty International - Civilians Under Attack: Darfur Conflict Spreads to Eastern Chad - March 2007 (PDF)
- Amnesty International - The Child Soldier Prevention Act of 2007
- Human Rights Watch - Ensuring Civilian Protection in Chad - The Proposed UN Mission – February 2007
Iraq
Documents
- International Crisis Group - Failed Responsibility: Iraqi Refugees in Syria, Jordan and Lebanon - July 2008
- International Organization for Migration - Iraq Displacement and Return: 2008 Mid-Year Review - June 2008 (PDF)
- International Rescue Committee - Five Years Later, a Hidden Crisis - March 2008 (PDF)
- Human Rights Watch - Rot Here or Die There: Bleak Choices for Iraqi Refugees in Lebanon - December 2007
- US Government Accountability Office - Securing, Stabilizing and Rebuilding Iraq – September 2007 (PDF)
- Brookings Institution - Security, Displacement and Iraq: A Deadly Combination - August 2007
- International Crisis Group - Where is Iraq heading? Lessons from Basra – June 2007
- Center for Strategic and International Studies - Iraq's Sectarian and Ethnic Violence and its Evolving Insurgency - April 2007
- Internal Displacement Monitoring Center - Iraq: A Displacement Crisis - March 2007 (PDF)
Somalia
Documents
- Internal Displacement Monitoring Center - Somalia: Massive Displacement and Humanitarian Need - July 2008 (PDF)
- Amnesty International - Routinely Targeted: Attacks on Civilians in Somalia - June 2008 (PDF)
- ENOUGH - 15 Years After Black Hawk Down: Somalia's Chance? - April 2008
- US State Department Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - Somalia - March 2008
- Human Rights Watch - Caught in a Quagmire – December 2007
- Human Rights Watch - Shell-Shocked: Civilians under Siege in Mogdishu – August 2007
- International Crisis Group - Somalia: the Tough Part is Ahead – January 2007
Sri Lanka
Documents
- International Study Center - Breaking the Silence - April 2008
- Human Rights Watch - Recurring Nightmare: State Responsibility for "Disappearances" and Abductions in Sri Lanka - March 2008
- US State Department Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - Sri Lanka – March 2008
- International Crisis Group - Sri Lanka: Sinhala Nationalism and the Elusive Southern Consensus - November 2007
- Internal Displacement Monitoring Center - Civilians in the Way of Conflict: Displaced People in Sri Lanka - September 2007 (PDF)
- Human Rights Watch - Return to War: Human Rights Under Siege – August 2007
- International Crisis Group - Sri Lanka's Human Rights Crisis – June 2007
- International Crisis Group - Sri Lanka's Muslims: Caught in the Crossfire – May 2007
- Human Rights Watch - Complicit in Crime: State Collusion in Abductions and Child Recruitment by the Karuna Group - January 2007