Act for Sudan
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Empower the civilian government, not Hemeti and the military. Keep Sudan on the SSTL until it proves its commitment to the new Sudan. Insist on real changes on the ground. Read the letter to Secretary Pompeo with 100 signatories, asking the U.S. not to empower and legitimize Hemeti by engaging him. Call the State Dept.…
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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…
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Dear Mr. Assistant Secretary, Dear Special Envoy to Sudan, In December 2018, protests broke out throughout Sudan calling for dictator President Omar al-Bashir, in power for nearly 30 years, to step down. Al-Bashir was removed from power on April 11, and replaced by a Transitional Military Council (TMC), now controlled by Lt. General Abdel-Fattah al-Burhan…
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Sudanese, including youth, women, professionals, civil society organizations and opposition groups, have peacefully protested the genocidal Sudan regime since December 2018, and those in Khartoum are currently camped outside of military headquarters demanding a civilian-led transitional council instead of the military council that removed Bashir and seized power on April 11, 2019. These protests are…