A UNCG student cannot enter the library without seeing a stack of suggested readings regarding the genocide in Darfur, and the conflicts within the Sudanese government. This article, Sudan: Children Still Enduring Grave Human Rights Violations, highlights some of the human rights violations that are still occuring, although conditions have improved. Children are still being drafted into the military, while UNICEF is arguing that these children should be reintegrated with their families. There are still reports that women and children are being sexually abused and abducted, while the young boys are being recruited for war. The secretary general, who was interviewed for this article, says that everyone should be aware of what is happening to these children, and urge that concrete steps be taken to grant children basic human rights.
Last year, the "rebel group" signed a peace agreement but have not been forced to carry out their commitment. The secretary general believes that they must cooperate right away. The civil war has been stopped, but people are still broken because of the constant chaos that little change is seen.
As we've witnessed in Iraq, sometimes people are so broken and torn apart because of differences in opinions and lifestyles and war, that people of civilization stepping in and simply saying "stop this" is not always effective. Obviously, things are getting accomplished, such as a peace treaty signed and a conclusion to the civil war of the south, but things are not clean and liveable yet- especially for the children of Sudan. Basic human rights should constitute that children are of age before they go to war, and while this is common knowledge, it is certainly not practiced in this African area. The UN is basically telling Darfur and Sudan that it is over, and they need to start enacting laws concerning human rights to protect their people. Hopefully with this kind of back up from the UN, changes will began to occur, and children can go home to their families.
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