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June 10, 2023

Reuters: Expelled US aid groups in talks over Darfur. Three U.S. aid groups expelled from Sudan three months ago are in talks to send new teams back into the country, relief workers said on Tuesday. President Omar Hassan al-Bashir ordered 13 foreign aid agencies to leave north Sudan in March after the International Criminal Court indicted him for war crimes in the western Darfur region. Although agencies have denied working with the ICC, Sudan has repeatedly said it will not allow them to return. However, analysts say a flurry of diplomatic activity by Washington, including visits by Senator John Kerry and U.S. special envoy to Sudan Scott Gration, has made progress. Mercy Corps, an Oregon-based group which had large operations in Darfur and the volatile Abyei region claimed by both north and south Sudan, said it was discussing sending in new teams under the flag of Mercy Corps Scotland, an affiliated Edinburgh-based charity. "There are ongoing negotiations with the Sudanese government, but nothing has been finalised as yet," said a spokesman for Mercy Corps Scotland. "We're hopeful an agreement can be reached as soon as possible." Several aid sources said the expelled U.S. operations of CARE and Save the Children were also in talks with officials to bring new teams into north Sudan, via branches of their organisations affiliated to other countries.

Dow Jones: Fidelity Faces More Votes On Anti-Genocide Investing. Investors in several Fidelity Investments' mutual funds will have an opportunity next month to vote on a proposal from an outside group that aims to prevent investments in companies linked to genocide. This year, the July 15 vote planned for 13 Fidelity funds will come a couple weeks after votes planned for 30 funds at Vanguard Group. Investors Against Genocide is also aiming for a vote in early August for at least one fund at American Funds, which is a unit of Capital Group Cos. The activist group wants mutual fund companies to disengage from investing in a handful of companies - most notably PetroChina Co. (PTR) and its parent China National Petroleum Corp. - that have links with the government in Sudan, where the U.S. has called militia attacks in the Darfur region a genocide. "We want them to make a commitment to their customers and prospective customers that they don't invest in genocide," said Eric Cohen, co-founder and chairperson of Investors Against Genocide, in an interview.

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Action Professionals Association for the People

Aegis Trust Rwanda

African Centre for Democracy and Human Rights Studies

African Center for Development

African Center for Justice and Peace Studies

Africa Internally Displaced Persons Voice (Africa IDP Voice)

African Security Dialogue and Research (ASDR)

African Women's Development and Communications Network (FEMNET)

The Ahueni Foundation

Alliances for Africa

Amman Centre for Human Rights Studies

Andalus Institute for Tolerance

Anti-Slavery International

Arab Coalition for Darfur

Arab Program for Human Rights Activists

Association Africaine de Defense des Droits de l'Homme (ASADHO)

Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies

Centre for Minority Rights Development (CEMIRIDE)

Centre for Research Education and Development of Freedom of Expression and Associated Rights (CREDO)

Citizens for Global Solutions

Conscience International

Conseil National Pour les Libertés en Tunisie

Darfur Alert Coalition (DAC)

Darfur Centre for Human Rights and Development

Darfur Leaders Network (DLN)

Darfur Reconciliation and Development Organization (DRDO)

Darfur Relief and Documentation Centre

East Africa Law Society

Egyptian Organization for Human Rights

Femmes Africa Solidarité

La Fédération Internationale des Droits de l'Homme (FIDH)

Forum of African Affairs (FOAA)

Human Rights First

Human Rights Institute of South Africa (HURISA)

Institute for Human Rights and Development in Africa

Institute for Security Studies

Inter-African Union for Human Rights (UIDH)

Interights

International Commission of Jurists (ICJ Kenya)

International Refugee Rights Initiative

Justice Africa

Justice and Peace Commission

Lawyers for Human Rights

Lebanese Association for Democratic Elections

Legal Resources Consortium-Nigeria

Ligue Tunisienne des Droits de l'Homme

Makumira University College, Tumaini University

Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA)

Minority Rights Group

National Association of Seadogs

Never Again International

Open Society Justice Initiative

Pan-African Movement

Rencontre Africaine Pour la Defense des Droits de l'Homme (RADDHO)

Sierra Leone STAND Chapter

Sisters' Arabic Forum for Human Rights (SAF)

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP)

Sudan Organization Against Torture (SOAT)

Syrian Organization for Human Rights

Unitarian Universalist Service Committee (UUSC)

Universal Human Rights Network

WARIPNET

Women Initiative Nigeria (WIN)