Activities

16-year-old activist Zaynub Afinnih at the Sudanese Embassy in Paris

On May 4, we posted our first article: Marital rape victim Noura Hussein faces execution in Sudan. A week later, Noura Hussein was sentenced to death by hanging. A few days later, we invited you to Sign the petition to support Noura Hussein on Change.org. Then Amnesty International...

Noura Hussein: Sign the Petition and Send the message by Amnesty International

Earlier this week we invited you to sign the petition to support Noura Hussein on Change.org. A few days have past and many people have already shown their support to the 19-year-old Noura Hussein, sentenced to death by hanging because she killed our husband in self-defense after...

Sign the petition to support Noura Hussein on Change.org!

As we told you on Friday in this news, we sent a special Newsletter this weekend about Noura Hussein‘s story and we also shared the petition: Don’t execute Noura for self defense against the man who raped her! on Change.org. This petition will help spread the word about...

Noura Hussein sentenced to death by hanging: Support #JusticeforNoura!

Last week we published a news (read here) about the 19-year-old Noura Hussein Hamad who was found guilty of attempted murder after suffering marital rape. We were hoping she wouldn’t be sentenced to death but yesterday the Central Criminal Court of Omdurman in Sudan sentenced the...

We Act Together, a global campaign to shed light on the global refugee crisis by iACT

iACT is launching We Act Together, a global campaign to shed light on the global refugee crisis and inspire action towards peace. In their recent Newsletter, we can read more details about their campaign, and the organization: In 2005, iACT’s Co-founder and Executive Director...

International Women’s Day 2018: ‘Time is Now: Rural and urban activists transforming women’s lives’

Today is International Women’s Day, it started on February 28, 1909 in  New York, and it’s celebrated in many countries around the world. This special day is a global day celebrating women’s rights and womanhood, and the social, economic, cultural and political...

Sudan: Some critics freed, others remain in custody

The deteriorating economic conditions prompted protests in Sudan, starting last January. We posted an article on the situation a couple of weeks ago in: Sudan: Economic collapse accelerating and inflation rate at 128%… The reaction of Sudanese security forces has once again been very...

Open letter concerning the crackdown on peaceful protests in Sudan

In September 2017, we signed the letter by The African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies (ACJPS) with other NGOs calling for strong, action-oriented resolution on Sudan at UN Human Rights Council. Read our post here. Once again, Sudanese security forces have arrested scores of people...

Support Ensaf Haidar and take action for Saudi blogger Raif Badawi!

Ensaf Haidar, wife of jailed Saudi blogger Raif Badawi, was in France over the weekend. As you know, we have been supporting his husband for years, advocating for his release and rallying for his freedom. Last week we tweeted about taking action and we also sent a Newsletter to our...

Celebrate Human Rights Day and #StandUp4HumanRights!

This week has been a very busy week, and we’re glad many of you could celebrate Human Rights Week with us. We published articles related to Human Rights: Celebrate Human Rights Week with The MagkaSama Project! Orange Day 2017 : Unissons-nous contre les violences dans l’espace...