The United Nations twice requested access to the region to conduct independent human rights assessments.
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In order to secure financing and a license to operate, corporations need to conduct social and environmental assessments, but these assessments often exclude the human rights principles developed by the UnitedNations.
Recent assessments by the United States States, the Canadian government, and the UnitedNations have all found links between these human rights atrocities of the Khartoum regime with the Greater Nile oil project.