Barham Salih, UNHCR High Commissioner, stated in the foreword for the UNHCR Global Report 2025, that “the number of people under UNHCR’s mandate has almost doubled over the past decade, from 63.9 million to 129.4 million, yet humanitarian financing moved sharply in the opposite direction.” Perhaps nowhere has this been felt more acutely than in Sudan, where over 14.5 million people are either internally displaced, or have fled seeking asylum in neighbouring countries. Two years ago we had investigative journalist and filmmaker Jordan Siegel on our show (S03E19) to discuss her reporting and film ”Invisible War." At the time, 53 million Sudanese were already trapped for over a year inside a brutal civil war between warring military factions- RSF (Rapid Support Forces) and SAF (Sudanese Armed Forces). Since then the fighting has only escalated, while critical aid reaching the people has precipitously dropped. This year marks the 75th anniversary of the 1951 Refugee Convention, and there is currently no crisis greater than Sudan to discuss the necessity of the convention. We're honored to have Jordan back to update us on the past two years of developments, and the critical work she and her colleagues are doing at the Sudan Human Rights Hub to document and archive the war crimes being perpetrated on both sides of the war. 

SPECIAL GUEST: JORDAN SIEGEL

Journalist, FilmmakerSudan Human Rights Hub

LEARN MORE:

Sudan Human Rights Hub- https://sudanhrh.org/en

Sudan Investigates- https://sudanhrh.org/en/investigates
SHRH Archive (Oral History, Protest Monitor, Sudan Shahid) https://sudanhrh.org/en/archive

Nesrine Malik- (article for The Guardian) “The UAE tries hard to keep its reputation spotless. But with the war in Sudan, how can it?”

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/may/13/uae-sudan-civil-war-gulf-country

UNHCR Global Report 2025- https://www.unhcr.org/media/global-report-2025

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