UN Security Council: Urgent action needed to end Sudan’s humanitarian disaster

Headline Title: UN Security Council: Urgent action needed to end Sudan’s humanitarian disaster 07 June 2012 The UN Security Council must fulfil its duty to protect civilians in Sudan and take immediate action to halt the military’s indiscriminate airstrikes, Amnesty International said in a new report that highlights the need for aid organizations to be granted immediate access to conflict-affected areas in Sudan’s Southern Kordofan and Blue Nile states. Since violence broke out in the two states a year ago, more than half a million people have been displaced by ongoing indiscriminate…

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