Sudanese Women General Union To Lobby For Imprisoned Women

14 July 2010 - (Khartoum) – The Sudanese Women's General Union has launched its campaign for unity of the Sudan under the theme, “Women’s Initiative to Enhance National Unity”.

The secretary general of the Sudanese Women’s Union, Madam Sarah Elijah, addressed a press conference in Khartoum on Tuesday.

She promised that her organization will lobby for the release of southern Sudanese women who are imprisoned for selling alcohol which is forbidden under Islamic Sharia Law in Khartoum.

[Sarah Elijah]: “I would like to assure women in prison that the Sudanese Women’s Union is concerned about all women, whether women in prisons or women who sell tea or women in any field that the union wants to see women progressing. The union has a variety of initiatives in order to ensure that women are not jailed for whatever reason. The Sudanese Women’s Union will become an organ that puts pressure on the authorities in order to ensure that those women who have been repeatedly jailed do not return to prison again. The union has a program and it is working in order to see to it that the women who are in prison are released. So these programs are part of the program laid down by the union as part of its initiative for unity.”

Madam Sarah Elijah was addressing the press in Khartoum on Tuesday.