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
