Rerun: Protesting a Dictatorship in a Dictatorship

About this episode

The episode discusses the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Sudan and the lack of global attention and mobilization since the conflict escalated in April 2023.

In the early aughts, a campaign to “Save Sudan” became  the  bipartisan issue of the time. Celebrities and politicians alike implored a global audience to pay attention to and advocate against Suan’s human rights crisis.   As interventions waned, so did the attention of many global onlookers. But, since the Sudan Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces began fighting in April 2023, over 500,000 Sudanese civilians have been displaced. What has happened in Sudan since the world stopped paying attention?   It’s been a year since our first episodes on Sudan. Since then, it has been the largest humanitarian crisis in the world. And things are only getting  worse . Yet despite the scale of the onslaught on civilians, global mobilization has been missing.    Mohamed Osman:  Researcher, Africa Division at Human Rights Watch   Christopher Tounsel:  Associate Professor of History, Director of Graduate Studies and Director of African Studies Program at the University of Washington 

People in this episode

Guests: Mohamed Osman, Christopher Tounsel

Topics covered

• human rights
• Sudan
• humanitarian crisis
• global mobilization
• conflict

Keywords

• Sudan
• human rights crisis
• displacement
• humanitarian crisis
• global attention

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Human Rights Watch, University of Washington

Places: Sudan

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