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What’s wrong with this picture?

This is a personal response from Kathleen Scott, SGN team member since 2007, to Jeffrey’s Gettleman’s  A Taste of Hope Sends Refugees Back to Darfur. After following the situation in Darfur for many years, I found this article a rollercoaster of joy that crash-landed for me at a horrible realization. The article and statements like […]

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Message from Darfur Refugee Leader, Urging Continuous Pressure

Hello my friend How are you ? I get your messages. Thank you all of you for your best efforts you doing towards margins in Darfur. Really we appreciate the great role of SGN organization and others beside them. Refugees are very happy when they heard you are going to make July 22/23 an international […]

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Why SGN/i-ACT? And more importantly, why Darfur?

If the second question has yet to be answered for you, I’d suggest reading the beautiful and moving words and images of “Why Darfur… Again?” However, for me, the first reason I emailed SGN asking if they had any need for a writer/editor was because it seemed like the best way for my writing to […]

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Lines and Shapes: Stories and Numbers We Have Heard

Droopy-lidded, hand fitted with my daily oolong tea, I stare at the whirlwind of text swirling on my computer screen, perplexed and confused.  Before me are the images of faces I know too well. Stories I have heard time and time again.  Flashes of desert beige streaked with red…blood red. As always, I sit perplexed, […]

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Issue 12: September 2009

What is the Result of the US Review on its Sudan Policy?

Nicole Slezak 7 September 2009 The Obama Administration, with US Brigadier General Scott Gration as the Special Envoy to Sudan, recently undertook a review of its policy toward Sudan. It was announced on 4 September by Gration that the administration came to a consensus “on the overall broad framework on what we call incentives and […]

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As U.N. General Downplays Crisis, Enough Project and Sudan Now Allies Stress Urgency For Obama Administration

Citing the 3 million Darfuris suffering in camps, group says Agwai “misses the big picture” in declaring end to crisis WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Enough Project at the Center for American Progress released the following statement today concerning the remarks of departing UNAMID commander Martin Luther Agwai who declared, “As of today, I would not […]

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Issue 11: August 2009

Connecting on the Personal Level

“Humanity Before Politics” was one of the first moving i-ACT statements that caught my eye when I looked at a picture of a group of Darfuri boys wearing t-shirts with the slogan. Gabriel later told me how fun it was to watch them play basketball that day the picture was taken. Basketball in a refugee […]

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Issue 11: August 2009

Oregon is i-ACTing

The Oregon Community has been quiet; however, strategic and present.  There are many independent groups working, still very much committed to the vast mission of bringing about awareness and education for Darfur.  As a community, we have all had the privilege of coming together through Darfur Fast for Life; this gave us the opportunity to […]

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Day 10: April 2

Thirst and Dehydration

Fluids enter the body by mouth but they exit in several ways: urination, sweating, breathing and absorption or elimination by the digestive tract. When there is not enough going in or too much leaving, the effects range from mild to drastic.A shortage of fluids causes the body to immediately conserve whatever is already stored in […]

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Day 9: April 1

Hunger, Malnutrition and Starvation

This, from dedicated i-ACT follower Carole who has a medical background, will help us all understand the effects of what our Darfuri friends are experiencing. Hunger, Malnutrition and Starvation. Hunger is ‘not enough food’ to satisfy body needs. It results in ravenous hunger, eating nearly anything available and lots of it. Eventually, the body adjusts […]