Jemera Rone, Human Rights Watch and Double Standards

The death in April 2001 of the senior Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) commander Yousif Kuwa afforded a tangible example of the double standards that have characterised both the stance and much of the "reporting" by human rights organisations such as Human Rights Watch with regard to Sudan.

Troubling Questions

On 3 May 2000 Amnesty International published a report entitled Sudan: The Human Price of Oil. This report claimed to examine human rights abuses in the oil-producing areas southern Sudan.