{"id":239644,"date":"2026-07-27T07:38:31","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T05:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-u-s-congress-should-pass-new-bills-on-sudan-human-rights-watch\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T07:38:31","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T05:38:31","slug":"sudan-u-s-congress-should-pass-new-bills-on-sudan-human-rights-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-u-s-congress-should-pass-new-bills-on-sudan-human-rights-watch\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: &#8216;U.S. Congress Should Pass New Bills On Sudan&#8217; &#8211; Human Rights Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"64\">Washington \u2014 <em>The US Congress is currently considering two bills on Sudan: the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/119\/bills\/s4726\/BILLS-119s4726is.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Preventing External Aggression and Conflict Escalation (PEACE) in Sudan Act of 2026 in<\/a> the Senate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/119\/bills\/hr1939\/BILLS-119hr1939ih.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">and US Engagement in Sudanese Peace Act<\/a> in the House of Representatives. Human Rights Watch (HRW) asserts that &#8220;by pushing for such legislation, Congress can play a vital role in responding to the human rights crisis in Sudan.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"77\">A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2026\/07\/21\/us-congress-should-pass-legislation-on-sudan\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">statement this week<\/a>, penned by Nicholas Freund of the Human Rights Watch (HRW) Washington&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202607230889.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Sudan\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/sudan\/\">Sudan<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington \u2014 The US Congress is currently considering two bills on Sudan: the Preventing External Aggression and Conflict Escalation (PEACE) in Sudan Act of 2026 in the Senate and US Engagement in Sudanese Peace Act in the House of Representatives. Human Rights Watch (HRW) asserts that &#8220;by pushing for such legislation, Congress can play a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[258,256,7898,6634,3575,257,17013,5100,254,4708,1613,2282,10745],"class_list":["post-239644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bills","tag-congress","tag-human","tag-news","tag-pass","tag-rights","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-u-s","tag-watch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}