Sudan
...alnutrition and disease, compounded by ethnic discrimination. Foreign oil companies in Sudan have been involved with major human rights violations committed by the Sudanese government against the indigenous people of the oil-drilling regions in the country's south. If they aren't killed outright, many civilians are deprived of food by government and rebel troops, or enslaved by those seeking to profit from the chaotic condition of the country. The civil war has its roots in religious rivalries between Muslims and Christians. In all, it is estimated that between 100,000 and 200,000 people from the south have been enslaved by the north and sold into slavery in other nearby countries. An estimate by a humanitarian organization states over 2 million people have been killed in the war. The two-week-old talks in Nigeria's capital Abuja have failed...