The Gezira Human Rights Groups
Condemn the Sudan Government’s
Displacement of the Poor Tenants and Campo Workers

SHRO-Cairo received copies of updated report addressed to the Human Rights Commission, Geneva, from the Gezira Human Rights Groups on the situation of human rights in the region.

The report is appalling: the decades’ neglected tenants and seasonal workers of the Gezira and Managil people, civilian establishments, and civil society organizations, once one of the most successful activities of State agricultural schemes in Africa, documented the continuous “NIF Program for the Marginalization of Tenants and Workers,” as pointed out in the report with respect to the basic needs of the tenants and “Campo” workers, the wage-laborers of the Scheme, and the population at large.

The Gezira Groups strongly condemn the systematic displacement and pauperization of the tenants and workers by the government that deteriorated their life. The report condemns the security forces brutality versus the tenants and workers’ children in conscription camps, the Gezira University, and the other education institutes.

The report equally condemns the the harassment of women by the NIF security forces and the impoverishment of the working force, in general, through the government’s overworked and underpaid terms of service, the heavy local customs on the poor citizens, the unprecedented emigrant tax on the return migrants from the Gulf States, and the persecution of the tenants’ and workers’ trades unions that struggle to defend their rights despite the tight security grip on civil freedoms.

The report documents with updated materials the complete absence of modern services, including education, health, and social welfare activities from the villages and towns that the region earlier partially enjoyed even under the old production relations of the government, administration, and tenant partnership.

The Organization will publish the texts of the Gezira Groups, which strongly condemn the Sudan Government, as part of the ongoing Campaign of the Coordinating Committee on the Need to Continue Close Monitoring of the Sudan Human Rights Situation by the United Nations Human Rights Commission.