Five years peace agreement and still no end to the violence in South Sudan – Protect human rights – prevent a new war!

For months the armed violence in South Sudan has been escalating and there are also no signs of a peace solution in Darfur in western Sudan. The comprehensive peace agreement concluded between North and South Sudan five years ago is threatening to collapse – with devastating consequences. Amnesty International and the Society for Threatened Peoples STP (Gesellschaft für bedrohte Völker GfbV) will be giving warning of this on Thursday with a human rights campaign in Berlin. The symbolic protest in front of the Brandenburger Tor is one of many campaigns around the globe centred on the anniversary of the agreement, with which NGOs on several continents are drawing attention to the terrible situation in Sudan.

We cordially invite you and your colleagues from the picture desk to our human rights campaign "Peace in Sudan NOW!” at the Brandenburger Tor (Pariser Platz) in Berlin on Thursday 7th January 2010 at 11 a.m.

Picture editors please note: As a forceful warning of new violence we shall be beating oil-drums. The quarrel over the control of the oil is a constant source of conflict in Sudan. We shall also be piling up a large mound of old shoes as a symbolic warning of the expulsion and death of thousands of civilians.

Contact:

Ulrich Delius, STP Africa consultant

asien@gfbv.de

Alfred Buss, Amnesty Sudan

Coordination group