Letter is available here. We, the heads of over 50 human rights and humanitarian organizations are coming together to sound the alarm about Sudan, where a disaster is unfolding before our eyes. With fighting continuing across the country, brutal sexual violence rising, widespread deliberate and indiscriminate attacks on civilians, and journalists and human rights defenders Read More…
Letter is available here, here and here. To Permanent Representatives of Member and Observer States of the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council (Geneva, Switzerland) Excellencies, Following the outbreak of armed conflict in Khartoum and other areas of Sudan, on April 15, 2023, over one hundred civil society organisations called on States to convene a Read More…
Letter is available here and here. The Honorable Antony Blinken US Secretary of State Department of State The Right Honorable James Cleverly MP UK Secretary of State Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office Dear Secretaries Blinken and Cleverly, On behalf of the United States Prevention and Protection Working Group and the United Kingdom Civil Society Atrocity Prevention Working Group, Read More…
PDF of letter in English and in Arabic available here. Her Excellency Lana Nusseibeh The Ambassador of the Permanent Mission of the United Arab Emirates to the United Nations 315 E. 46th Street New York, NY 10017 Your Excellency, On behalf of Act for Sudan, I write to you in your capacity as President of the Read More…
The letter is also posted online here. April 28, 2023 President Joseph R. Biden 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20500 RE: Human rights concerns in Sudan Dear President Biden, We, the undersigned organizations, are writing with deep concern over the catastrophic situation unfolding in Sudan. Since 15 April, fighting between the Sudan Armed Forces Read More…
Full PDF of this letter, including footnotes and annex, is available here. To Permanent Representatives of Member and Observer States of the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council (Geneva, Switzerland) 26 April 2023 Sudan: Urgently convene a special session and establish an investigative mechanism Excellencies, In light of the unfolding human rights crisis in Sudan, Read More…
Download the PDF of this letter here. October 7, 2021 President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20500 Dear President Biden, We, the undersigned 123 human rights organizations, scholars and leading activists, are writing to advocate for a renewed partnership between the U.S. and Sudan and the immediate Read More…
REDRESS led the creation of this joint letter. Download the PDF version of this letter here. Sovereign Council and Council of Ministers, Republic of the Sudan His Excellency Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok, Republic of the Sudan Nasredeen Abdulbari, Minister of Justice, Republic of the Sudan 26 August 2021 Re: Transfer of ICC Suspects to The Read More…
Download the PDF version of this letter here. Dear Prime Minister Hamdok, We write to express our appreciation for your efforts to realize the demands of the December Revolution for freedom, peace and justice, to call attention to the urgent need for progress on the ground, and to register our concerns regarding ongoing violence and Read More…
Download the PDF version of this letter here. The Honorable Mike Pompeo U.S. Department of State 2201 C Street, NW Washington, DC 20520 Dear Secretary Pompeo, We, the undersigned 100 human rights organizations, scholars and leading activists, strongly urge the Administration to establish a policy that prohibits representatives and employees of the U.S. government Read More…