Act Now!

As a guarantor, the US Government has a duty to prevent Sudan from returning to war. If the CPA is not guaranteed now, war can start again all too quickly, during which a return to peace will be incredibly difficult, the Sudanese people will be further devastated and the whole region will be destabilized.

PLEASE ACT NOW! "Refugees International" has an action point that we support. Please go to the following link and send a message to your representatives. Cut and paste in your browser if needed. http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/421/t/8744/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=736
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One of the biggest problem in Sudan today is fear. People fear for their lives and their safety of their communities because of a situation of ever-increasing insecurity, and violence prevents any further material or economic development, and could preclude free and fair elections, desperately needed in February 2010, and the referendum on Southern secession scheduled for 2011.

People in Western and Central Equatoria are being attacked, murdered and displaced by the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), rumored to be supplied by people within Sudan. A large number of civilians in Eastern Equatoria, Lakes and Jonglei states are armed. The proliferation of modern weapons has caused traditional tribal conflicts over cattle ownership and grazing rights to increase and escalate into far bloodier warfare all over Southern Sudan – warfare that is now damaging the unity of the people and the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) process as a whole.

According to the Human Rights Report released in June 2009, arbitrary arrest and detention by the National Intelligence Security Service (NISS) military or police continues to be widely spread in all areas of Sudan, and is often linked to other serious human rights violations, such as incommunicado detention, ill treatment, torture or detention in un-official places. As UNMIS and UMAMID Human Rights Officers have no access to most places of detention, the exact figure of those detained is impossible to verify.