Sudan: Sudan's Women Pay the Price As Weapons Keep Flowing - Why an Arms Embargo Is Crucial to Protecting Them
The US proposal to the UN Security Council to extend the existing arms embargo on Darfur to the whole of Sudan is one of several tools intended to pressure the parties to the conflict to reduce their capacity to wage war and cut off sources of weapons, thereby limiting violations against civilians.
Amid current international efforts concerning Sudan, Kashkoush tells Radio Dabanga's Kandakat wa Mayarem programme that the United States has submitted a draft Security Council resolution to extend the arms embargo to the whole of Sudan, describing the move as one means of putting pressure on the parties to the conflict.
Kashkoush tells Dabanga that UN Security Council Resolution 1591, adopted in 2005, imposed an arms embargo on Darfur.
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