December 3rd, 2007 - Nikki Serapio  Permalink  View & Add Comments

A New DarfurDailyAction…

[If you have a few minutes today, please consider taking the following action for Darfur:]

WHAT: Push for the imposition of strong, targeted multilateral sanctions against the Government of Sudan’s senior leaders.

HOW: Follow the ENOUGH Project’s simple action recommendations, as specified in their report “Don’t Quit Now”:

- Call the White House through the Genocide Intervention Network’s hotline: 1-800-GENOCIDE [1-800-436-6243]
- Demand that the United States push for U.N. Security Council targeted sanctions against senior Khartoum regime officials by calling your senators and representatives, at 1-202-224-3121.

- Ask the presidential candidates to support these sanctions now and speak out about them on the campaign trail.

WHY: Imposing strong, targeted multilateral sanctions against the Government of Sudan’s senior leaders is a necessary step to help stop these perpetrators from obstructing the deployment of UN peacekeepers to Western Sudan. If these multilateral sanctions are implemented—i.e., if asset freezes and travel bans, among other things, are imposed against Khartoum—then the perpetrators of mass killing and systematic rape will experience considerable personal economic costs, which will pressure these perpetrators to stop their genocidal violence.

MORE DETAILS: For more details about the argument in favor of multilateral sanctions, read the March 2007 ENOUGH Project report “The Answer to Darfur.”