Its been a hectic week with Syria, marches about paintings and Liverpool's search for a new Manager. The Syrian situation is grabbing all the headlines for obvious reasons and in the midst of this other injustices do not get the headlines they deserve. One of them is the treatment of African refugees in Israel where a significant section of the Tel Aviv population went on the rampage attacking the refugees and wanting them out of the country. A politician went as far as describing them as a cancer!

What I want to focus on, though, is the plight of a lone Sudanese woman who has been accused of adultery. You know what is coming. Intisar Sharif Abdalla who, according to media reports is between the ages of 15 and 17 is accused of having a sexual relationship outside of wedlock and falling pregnant by a man who is not her husband. The man has not been accused of anything, of course. A Judge, Sami Ibrahim Shabo, sentenced her to death by stoning on 13 May after one hearing and following hours of brutal torture by her own brother who instigated the case according to The Observer, a Ugandan online publication. She is apparently currently shackled in a prison in Sudan.

This is one for all of us to tackle. If you are in the media, use your column or tv programme to be heard on this matter, if a member of Amnesty International, you know what to do. The people I am appealing to the most, though, are the ordinary man and woman in the street who have a member of parliament they can write to and hassle so that (s)he can raise the issue in their parliament and ask the government of the day to raise their voice in protest all the way to Addis Ababa at the AU headquarters and Khartoum the seat of the Sudanese Government. Africa, and the rest of the world must stand up as one not just to condemn this injustice but also to stop the sentence from being carried out. This is the power of one. You can all play your role in this matter and help save one more human being from injustice at the hands of fellow man.