Sudan: CSOs Launch ‘Right to Live’ Campaign

Civil society organisations (CSOs) and rights activists in Sudan have started a campaign in Khartoum tagged ‘Protect the Right to Live’ in response to the many recent incidents of violence in several parts of the country.

Development Diaries gathered that dozens of CSOs and rights activities, including a large number of resistance committees, the Association of Relatives of the Victims of the December Revolution, and the Darfur Bar Association, agreed to set up the campaign, and were already collecting signatures online.

The campaigners considered the right to live as a non-negotiable right, stating that the campaign was launched due to ‘the increase in violence between social components in Sudan, and the growing number of killings in Darfur, the East, Blue Nile, and the Nuba Mountains, at a time while the transitional authorities fail to protect the people’.

They also said, ‘The government’s failure to do justice to the people in conflict areas means the failure of the transitional period. We are now demanding a minimum, non-negotiable right to live’.

They demanded an immediate cessation of violence against civilians in all its forms, whether killing, rape, intimidation, or plundering and called on the Sudanese army to protect civilians in conflict and border areas.

Source: Dabanga Sudan

Photo source: Howard Lake

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