Sudan
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A U.S. aid shipment carrying enough wheat to help feed more than 3.2 million Sudanese for a month arrived in Port Sudan on Sunday, as the country faces a severe humanitarian crisis. The shipment was exempted from a broader decision by U.S. President Donald Trump to freeze foreign aid, with Washington permitting life-saving assistance, notably…
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Dear Senators Risch, Shaheen, Cruz, Booker, Coons, Merkley, Van Hollen, Rounds, Barasso and Cornyn, and Representatives Mast, Meeks, Smith, Jacobs, McCaul, Kim, Jayapal, McGovern and James, Thank you for your recent engagement in support of the people of Sudan and South Sudan. We, the 76 undersigned organizations and individuals, write to strongly encourage you to…
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Sudan remains the greatest humanitarian crisis in the world today. The U.S has determined that genocide and war crimes are taking place. Famine has been declared in multiple locations in Sudan. Please take one or more of these easy actions to help ensure that Sudan is not forgotten. It is vital to get food to…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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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Act for Sudan sent a letter to Prime Minister Hamdok registering our concerns regarding ongoing violence and insecurity in Darfur and calling attention to the urgent need for progress on the ground. Please help by sharing the letter with your contacts and posting and tweeting about the letter. Post this message on facebook: @actforsudan letter…
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Given the terror and destruction associated with Sudan’s National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS), we are shocked the U.S. would issue a visa to Mohammed Atta al-Moula, the former Director of NISS, and accept Atta as Sudan’s top diplomatgy in Washington, DC. Atta’s presence in the U.S. is not only an affront to the victims…
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Ibrahim Ghandour, the Foreign Minister of Sudan, will be in Washington, D.C., this Thursday and Friday to attempt to seal the deal on lifting U.S. sanctions on Sudan.