“The cries of our children will echo for generations if the world does not act now.”
This is what ACT Alliance and Caritas Internationalis were told by a local faith leader in Sudan in advance of the UN General Assembly, taking place in New York this week. The crisis in Sudan is growing ever more alarming and the numbers of people affected by the conflict and impending famine are staggering, with over 10 million now displaced.
ACT and Caritas prepared a joint statement for a UNGA high level side event entitled “The Cost of Inaction: Urgent and Collective Support to Scale Up the Humanitarian Response in Sudan and the Region.” In the statement, ACT and Caritas raise three points:
- A commitment to a partnership-based approach to support local first responders in Sudan,
- A call for unimpeded humanitarian access from all parties to the conflict to enable the provision of aid, and
- Raising voices of people and communities impacted by the conflict.
The statement calls on “Governments at UNGA to take every diplomatic action possible to end this catastrophe, and to unlock support to the local first responders.”
Read the full statement here.
Read the joint ACT/Caritas appeal for humanitarian relief in Sudan here.
