Alexender Gladstein is the Vice-president of strategy for the Oslo Freedom forum and he has been with the Oslo Freedom Forum since its inception in 2009. During a brief interview with The Oslo Times, explained that, no government is ever going to be ultimately be a true friend of human rights, it’s impossible.
Sudanese rebels say they have launched a major operation against an area in South Kordofan which a controversial counter-insurgency unit showed off to journalists after "liberating" it last week.
The United States on Thursday urged Sudan to safeguard the right of peaceful assembly, after security forces allegedly shot and killed a university student.
Sudanese police allegedly opened fire Monday on demonstrators from a camp for displaced people in the troubled Darfur region, wounding an unconfirmed number, peacekeepers said.
The United States and other foreign powers stepped up pressure on South Sudan's feuding ethnic factions to settle their differences, as Washington dispatched an envoy to the violence-wracked region.