During his first official overseas trip as High Commissioner, Salih met Sudanese refugee families who had fled the vicious fighting in Darfur only days earlier; many had been displaced multiple times since the conflict began.
In Chad, UNHCR's Salih calls for urgent refugee support to save and rebuild lives ... Salih spoke with women who had been raped, and to people whose parents had been killed, arriving in Chad with only what they could carry and the hope of safety.
The decision removes a chance for the defendants to resolve the long-running case with the death penalty taken off the table. Instead, pretrial hearings are likely to resume ... .