Dear xxxx,

As you may have heard in the news, one the implications of an arrest warrant against the president of Sudan has seen Save the Children US (SCUS) along with 12 other major NGO’s getting expelled by a presidential decree earlier today.

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So the ICC made it’s announcement…and now the fallout.

Apparently, 10 humanitarian groups have already been asked to leave, including Mercy Corps, International Rescue Committee, Oxfam, and Doctors Without Borders. These groups are responsible for millions of lives in Darfur.

Additionally, the Justice and Equality Movement has just announced that it is pulling out of peace talks with the government. This is unacceptable.

I’ve said before that the ICC announcement will be what we do with it. Now it has happened and it is up to us to ensure that it is a positive development rather than a negative. So get calling or writing and tell the government that it is unacceptable that Sudan is kicking out aid groups, that it is unacceptable that the peace process doesn’t continue, that it is unacceptable that the violence continues.

PS. Go sign the IRC petition to let them back in.

Nicholas Kristof has a Q & A on the ICC arrest warrants over at the New York Times website that are worth taking a look at.

Way to go Halifax West High School!

They have an article about their efforts in the Chronicle Herald.