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Despite movement in the Darfur peace process, new reports of violence have emerged from the region. With national Sudanese elections scheduled in April and a vote on national unity coming up in January, the consequences of failure could be catastrophic. Tell your member of Congress: it’s make-or-break time for Sudan, so we must now refocus efforts to forge a sustainable peace.

Did you know that at this moment of unprecedented devastation Haiti owes approximately $1 billion in debt? Congress recently introduced the “Haiti Recovery Act,” a critical step in ensuring that Haiti’s scarce resources support reconstruction and provide services to the Haitian people. Let your Senators know that Haiti needs to focus on its recovery, not its debt.

AJWS has been working to oppose Uganda’s dangerous Anti-Homosexuality Bill introduced last fall, by bolstering Ugandan grassroots efforts and building international pressure. Now, a Congressional resolution has just been introduced that calls upon President Obama and Secretary Clinton to “express unequivocal United States opposition” to the proposed bill. Tell your Representative to stand up for the human rights of sexual minorities by supporting this resolution.

U.S. foreign assistance programs provide vital services to peoples around the world. However, conflicting goals, lack of coordination and an increasingly burdensome bureaucratic system limit the effectiveness of our foreign aid. Now is the time to reform U.S. foreign assistance, reducing red tape and redundancy and putting the focus where it belongs, on alleviating poverty and hunger and promoting human rights.