Joint Letter / Open Letter

NGOs call for strong, action-oriented resolution on Sudan at UN Human Rights Council

The MagkaSama Project, with more than 20 other organizations, signed the letter by The African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies (ACJPS) regarding the human rights situation in Sudan addressed to the Permanent Representatives of Members and Observer States of the UN Human Rights...

A bipartisan letter sent to President Donald J. Trump regarding the lifting of sanctions on Sudan

As you may already know, the lifting of sanctions on Sudan initiated by Barack Obama before he left the office, has since then raised a lot of concerns, among human rights organizations but also among officials and representatives in Europe and in the United States. A press release has...

Chemical weapons used in Darfur: Organizations around the world join forces

In a report released last month, Amnesty International has documented the use of suspected chemical weapons by Sudanese government forces against civilians, including very young children, in Jebel Marra, one of the most remote regions of Darfur over the past eight months. Between 200 and...

Reporters Without Borders: ‘When you kill journalists, you kill information’

The organization’s letter start with a strong sentence: ‘When you kill journalists, you kill more than the information they fought to report. You kill the power of the people to know the truth, to speak up, to fight for a better world.‘ Right now RSF/RWB is leading a...

The IMF and Khartoum: what Eric Reeves and Girifna say about it

Does the IMF think that bloody crackdowns on demonstrators in Sudan are irrelevant in assessing Khartoum’s economic performance? This is the question Eric Reeves asks in his post, referring to the October 12 press release from the IMF. Reeves explains: ‘[In a press release]...

Not One More: Take a Stand Against Hate, Human Rights Campaign

A homophobic gunman shot and killed a 32-year-old man at point-blank range after he unleashed a series of anti-gay slurs at the victim on a Greenwich Village street. Mark Carson, 32, was killed after a gay-bashing assailant asked whether the man he was with was his boyfriend. Carson...

Advocacy Training, International Women’s Day, Kenya’s election results

Our weekly round-up of must-read stories you might have missed. In focus this week: Enough Project hosted an advocacy, media, and development training in Washington, D.C., Reporters Without Borders sends an open letter to the authorities in Tunisia, International Women’s Day...

Rights Groups, Genocide Scholars ask Germany to cancel Sudan Investment Conference

Act for Sudan just published a press release regarding the upcoming ‘Sudan-South Sudan Economic Conference‘ that will take place in Berlin on Tuesday, January 29 2013. Conference will “help to fund more atrocities against civilians,” say groups. Here is the press release...