This website provides information about the Sudan Community Compensation proposal that was presented to the Justice Department on September 2, 2015, the need for such a program, the BNPP case, the details of the proposal, and related news. We had hoped that support from so many groups would encourage the Justice Department to allow money for humanitarian aid to begin to flow  from the BNPP settlement to the Sudanese refugees and IDPs who are desperately in need of assistance. Unfortunately, all possibilities of the Justice Department using its discretion to use the BNPP settlement funds to support Sudan Community Compensation ended when Congress passed the Omnibus Budget act in December 2015 allocating all the BNPP funds to terrorist victims in the US.

Supporters

(* denotes supporter added after the October 1, 2015, press release)

Act for Sudan, Martina Knee, Co-Founder, San Francisco, CA, USA

Ahmed H. Adam, Visiting Fellow, Institute for African Development (IAD), Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA

African Freedom Coalition, Al Sutton M.D., President, New York, NY, USA

African Refugees and Victims Relief Fund, Ted Dagne, Director, Washington, DC, USA

African Soul, American Heart, Debra Dawson, President, Fargo, ND, USA

Kalthoum Fadlalla Mohamed Ali, Human Rights Activist, South Khartoum, Sudan

Alliance for a Just Society, William Daley, Legislative Director, Seattle, WA, USA

American Friends of the Episcopal Church of South Sudan and Sudan, Richard Parkins, Executive Director, Alexandria, VA, USA

American Friends Service Committee Wage Peace, Stephen McNeil, Director, San Francisco, CA, USA

American Jewish World Service, Ruth W. Messinger, President, New York, NY, USA*

Amnesty 133, Refugee Action Team, Dr. Eric Aronson, Somerville, MA, USA

Arab Coalition for Sudan, Wadah Tabir, General Coordinator, Cairo, Egypt

Armenian Assembly of America, Bryan Ardouny, Executive Director, Washington, DC, USA

Armenian National Committee of America, Aram Hamparian, Executive Director, Washington, DC, USA

Arry Organization for Human Rights, Osman Naway, General Director, Kansas City, MO, USA

Beja Organization for Human Rights and Development, Ibrahim T. Ahmed, Herndon, VA, USA

Blue Nile Association For Peace and Development, Abdalla Babikir, Washington, DC, USA

Brooklyn Coalition for Darfur & Marginalized Sudan, Laura Limuli, Coordinator, Brooklyn, NY, USA

CANDLES Holocaust Museum and Education Center, Eva Kor, Founding Director, Terre Haute, IN, USA

Carl Wilkens Fellowship, Kiel Majewski, Advisory Board Member, Redondo Beach, CA, USA

Dr. Tom Catena, Medical Director, Mother of Mercy Hospital, Nuba Mountains, Sudan

Christian Solidarity International-USA, The Rev. Heidi McGinness, Director of Outreach, Denver, CO, USA

Coalition of Advocates for South Sudan, Kwaje Lasu, Moderator, Greensboro, NC, USA

Collectif Urgence Darfour, Dr. Jacky Mamou, Chairman, Paris, France

Colorado Coalition for Genocide Awareness and Action, Roz Duman, Founder and Director, Denver, CO, USA

Congolese Genocide Awareness, Anthony Kasongo, Executive Director, Everett, MA, USA

The Baroness Caroline Cox, Chief Executive, Humanitarian Aid Relief Trust, and Member, House of Lords, Parliament of the United Kingdom, London, UK

Darfur Action Group of South Carolina, Richard Sribnick, MD, Chairman, Columbia, SC, USA

Darfur and Beyond, Cory Williams, Co-Founder, Phoenix, AZ, USA

Darfur Bar Association, Abdelrahman Gasim, External Relations Secretary, Sudan

Darfur Community Organization, Bakheit A. Shata, Founder and Executive Director, Omaha, NE, USA

Darfur Human Rights Organization of the USA, Abdelgabar Adam, President and Founder, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Darfur Interfaith Network, Martha Boshnick, Co-Chair, Washington, DC, USA

Darfur People’s Association of New York, Mohamed Haroun Ebead, President, Brooklyn, NY, USA

Darfur Relief and Documentation Centre, Abdelbagi Jibril, Vice-President, Geneva, Switzerland

Dear Sudan, Love Marin, Gerri Miller, Coordinator, Tiburon, California USA

Mohammed Eisa, Researcher, RFK Human Rights Laureate 2007, Cambridge, MA, USA

Aicha Elbasri, former Spokesperson for the African Union-United Nations Mission in Darfur

Genocide No More–Save Darfur, Marv Steinberg, Coordinator, Redding, CA, USA

Genocide Watch, Greg Stanton, President, Research Professor, School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University, Arlington, VA, USA‎

Georgia Coalition to Prevent Genocide, Melanie Nelkin, Chair, Atlanta, GA, USA

Vivienne Glance, writer/performer and member of WINGS Organisation for Cross-cultural Development, Honorary Research Fellow at University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia

Global Financial Integrity, Heather A. Lowe, Legal Counsel and Director of Government Affairs, Washington, DC, USA

Government Accountability Project, Louis Clark, President, Washington, DC, USA

John Hagan, John D. MacArthur Professor, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA

Harry Potter Alliance, Matt Maggiacomo, Executive Director, Cranston, RI, USA*

Human Rights and Advocacy Network for Democracy (HAND), Abdalmageed S. Haroun, President, Brooklyn, NY, USA

Human Rights Organization – Sudan (HRO-S), Ayman Adel Amin, Stockholm, Sweden

Humanity Is Us, Kimberly Hollingsworth, Founder and President, New York, NY, USA

Sharon Hutchinson, Member of the Civilian Protection Monitoring Team, South Sudan (2002 – 2003), Madison, WI, USA

Institute on Religion and Democracy, Mark Tooley, President, Washington, DC, USA

International Justice Project, Monica Feltz, Esq., LL.M., Executive Director, Newark, NJ, USA

Investors Against Genocide, Eric Cohen, Chairperson, Boston, MA, USA

Iowa Center for Genocide Prevention, Kristen Anderson, Founder, Des Moines, IA, USA

Mohammadain Ishag, Radio Journalist and Human Rights Activist, Cardiff, UK

Afeif Ismail, Poet, Playwright and Human Rights Activist, 2008 Australian National Playwrights’ Conference (ANPC) Bursary award winner, Perth, Australia

Jewish World Watch, William Bernstein, Executive Director, Encino, CA, USA

Jews Against Genocide, Eileen Weiss, Co-Founder, New York, NY, USA

Joining Our Voices, Slater Armstrong, Founder/Director, Baton Rouge, LA, USA

Mukesh Kapila (CBE), Former Head of the UN in Sudan, Geneva, Switzerland

Kurdistan Without Genocide, Ali Mahmud, Director, Erbil, Iraq

Kush Inc., Daniel Deng, Director, Washington, DC, USA

Long Island Darfur Action Group, Nancy Walsh, Coordinator,  Farmingdale, NY, USA

Lorien E. MacAuley, food security researcher, PhD candidate at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA*

The MagkaSama Project, Max Dana, Founder, Paris, France

Massachusetts Coalition for Darfur, William Rosenfeld, Director, Boston, MA, USA

Dr. Rafael Medoff, Director, The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, Washington, DC, USA

My Sister’s Keeper, Sarah Cleto Rial, Program Director, Boston, MA, USA

Never Again Coalition, Lauren Fortgang, Co-Chair, Portland, OR, USA

New York Coalition for Sudan, Sharon Silber, Co-Director, New York, NY, USA

New York Darfur Vigil Group, Helga Moor, Coordinator, New York, NY, USA

Northwest Bronx For Change, Gene Binder, Steering Committee, Bronx, NY, USA

Nuba Christian Family Mission, James Spencer Flournoy, Director, Denver, CO, USA

Nuba Mountains Advocacy Group USA, Gogadi Amoga, Chair, Batavia, OH, USA

Nuba Mountains International Association USA, Komi Alaiaiser, President, Lorton, VA, USA

Nuba Mountains Peace Coalition, Robert Cooper, Dallas, TX, USA

Nubia Project, Nuraddin Abdulmannan, President, Washington, DC, USA

OMNI Center for Peace, Justice & Ecology, Gladys Tiffany, Director, Fayetteville, AR, USA

Operation Broken Silence, Mark C. Hackett, Executive Director, Memphis, TN, USA

Our Humanity in the Balance, Terry Nickelson, Executive Director, Brevard, NC, USA

People4Sudan, Valerie Delacretaz, Coordinator, Geneva, Switzerland

Pittsburgh Darfur Emergency Coalition, David Rosenberg, Coordinator, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Eric Reeves, Sudan Researcher, Author of Compromising with Evil: An Archival History of Greater Sudan, 2007 – 2012 (eBook, 2012), Northampton, MA, USA

Religious Liberty Program and Church Alliance for a New Sudan, Institute on Religion and Democracy, Faith J. H. McDonnell, Director, Washington, DC, USA

Le Rassemblement des Soudanais en France (RSF), Dr. Hussein Ismail Amin Nabri, Président, Paris, France*

Ahmed A. Saeed, PhD., Humanitarian Aid Worker, Southern Kordofan/Nuba Mountains and Blue Nile States, Sudan

Hawa Abdalla Salih, Human Rights and Women’s Rights Activist, Recipient, 2012 U.S. Secretary of State’s International Women of Courage Award, Philadelphia, PA, USA

San Francisco Bay Area Darfur Coalition, Mohamed Suleiman, President, San Francisco, CA, USA

Prof. Robert Skloot (emeritus), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA

South Sudanese Civil Society in the State of Nebraska, Dhalbeng D. Malual, Chair, Media Coordinator Committee, NE, USA

STAND: The Student-led Movement to End Mass Atrocities, MacKenzie J. Hamilton, Executive Manager, Francesca Freeman, Student Director, Washington, DC, USA

Brian Steidle, Author of The Devil Came on Horseback: Bearing Witness to the Genocide in Darfur*

Stop Genocide Now, Katie-Jay Scott, Director and Founder, Redondo Beach, CA, USA

Sudan Advocacy Action Forum, Dr. Eleanor Wright, Moderator, Birmingham, AL, USA

Sudan Center For Transitional Justice and Peace Studies, Elsadig Yousif, Paris, France

Sudan Rowan, Inc., Ngor Kur Mayol, President and Co-founder, Atlanta, GA, USA

Sudanese American Democratic Alliance, SADA, Abdelsalam Hamid, Saint Paul, MN, USA

SUDO (UK), Sudan Social Development Organization, London, UK

Rebecca Tinsley, Author of When the Stars Fall to Earth, A Novel of Africa (LandMarc Press, 2011), and Founder, Waging Peace, London, UK

Dr. Samuel Totten, Professor Emeritus, University of Arkansas, Author of Genocide by Attrition: Nuba Mountains Sudan (Transaction Publishers, 2015), and co-editor of Conflict in the Nuba Mountains: From Genocide by Attrition to the Contemporary Crisis (Routledge, 2015), Fayetteville, AR, USA

Transparency International-USA, Claudia Dumas, President and CEO, Washington, DC, USA

Trinity South Sudan Ministry, Bill Andress, Lexington, SC, USA

Unite for Darfur Organization, Bahar Arabie, CEO, Gaithersburg, MD, USA

United Sudanese and South Sudanese Communities Association (USASSCA), Henry Lejukole, Chairman, Des Moines, IA,USA

United to End Genocide, Hon. Thomas H. Andrews, President and CEO, Washington, DC, USA

Until We Return Vocal Group, Nazik Osman, Singer and Human Rights Activist, Perth, Australia

Use Your Voice to Stop Genocide RI, Sandra Hammel, Director, Portsmouth, RI, USA

Voices for Sudan, Jimmy Mulla, President and Co-Founder, Washington, DC, USA

Waging Peace, Olivia Warham MBE, Director, London, UK

John H. Weiss, Founder, Caceres-Neuffer Genocide Action Group, Associate Professor of History, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA

Rev. Gloria E. White-Hammond, M.D., Co-Pastor of Bethel AME Church and Executive Director of My Sister’s Keeper, Boston, MA, USA

Women Who Grow, Diar Rehabilitation Development Association, Karak Mayik Denyok, Founder and President, Denver, CO, USA

World Peace and Reconciliation, Adeeb Yousif, President, Arlington, VA, USA

World Without Genocide at William Mitchell College of Law, Ellen J. Kennedy, Ph.D., Executive Director, St. Paul, MN, USA

Dr. Abdin Zeinelabdin, Human Rights Activist and Former Secretary General of the University of Khartoum Staff Association, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada