New Online Action on Darfur!

Amnesty is calling upon the U.S. Senate to help bring the international community together in response to the Sudanese government’s decision to expel the U.N. Special Envoy for Darfur. Please send Senators Lautenberg and Menendez an online appeal.

Thanks,
Larry Ladutke
NJ Legislative Coordinator

Statement from Lynn Fredriksson, Africa Advocacy Director, AIUSA
on Sudanese Government’s Decision to Remove U.N. Special Envoy from Darfur

(New York) -- Amnesty International USA (AIUSA) condemns in the strongest terms Khartoum’s recent actions against United Nations Special Envoy Jan Pronk. Mr. Pronk must be allowed to continue to work on the dire humanitarian and human rights crisis raging in Darfur. Over the past two months, Sudanese officials have consistently obstructed implementation of the U.N. resolution that would provide some 20,000 U.N. peacekeepers, while, shockingly, the government has launched a new offensive targeting Darfuri civilians. By declaring Mr. Pronk persona non grata, Khartoum has once again demonstrated heinous dispassion toward the well being of its own citizens.

AIUSA urgently calls on the international community to employ targeted sanctions against those who have committed violations against civilians and to exert all diplomatic means of pressing Khartoum to admit U.N. peacekeepers. Only then will the mass violence that has already claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands and displaced over 2.5 million civilians finally cease.

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