Citing responsibility to protect, rights groups issue open letter to President Obama FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CITIES NATIONWIDE – July 19, 2011 – Amid reports of government-sponsored aerial bombardment of civilians, summary door-to-door executions and evidence of mass graves in Southern Kordofan, 54 human rights and anti-genocide organizations in 27 states have issued an open letter […]
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Letters from Darfur refugees
After spending some time with students and teachers at the one of the schools in Camp Djabal, we gave them a book of letters written by a school in Georgia as part of their Save Darfur Club. We also told them about the Darfur Dream Team Sister School Program. Here are the two letters we […]
For today—Sunday’s—action, we are reverting to what feels symbolic and trivial, compared to what is happening to the people of Darfur. The team here will be fasting, in solidarity with the children in this camp and the more than one million people that will go without food soon inside of Darfur. We will also make […]
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With the children
This is the third day we visited refugee camp Djabal. We are doing work for the Darfur Dream Team Sister Schools Program, which will connect students in the US with students in the refugee camps in Eastern Chad, starting with camp Djabal. It is fun collecting the profiles of Darfuri children and spending time with […]
Download a printable copy Husna Head of Household Camp Oure Cassoni Sudanese Husna carries the blue UNHCR card which states how many family members are registered, and therefore, how much food they will recieve this month for 5. Who knows how many unregistered people she has to feed. Every month she lines up with her […]
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Pour la famille et les amis
Nous entamons notre deuxième semaine au Tchad et pour la première fois nous ne pourrons peut-être pas visiter un seul camp de réfugiés. Lorsque nous avons quitté le camp de Kounoungo en février dernier, notre ami Yakoub nous a dit que nos visites motivaient vraiment les gens du camp, qui étaient fiers du fait que […]
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100 Day Fast for Darfur
We allow multiple fasters for each day, so if you would like to fast for Darfur send us an email at fast@stopgenocidenow.org to be added! Day Date Name City, State Country Pledge Amount Pledge To 1 April 7 Gabriel Stauring Redondo Beach, CA USA $25 WFP Amber Garrow Clackamas, OR USA $25 WFP Malik Abdulrahman […]
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Du Concept à la Realité
Envoyé par Joshua Tree le 26 janvier 2008-01-27 Hier, nous sommes allés à l’annexe du HCR des Nations-Unies de Goz Beida qui chapeaute les camps de Djabal et Goz Amer. • Djabal héberge environ 15.500 réfugiés • Goz Amer héberge environ 20.000 réfugiés Et il y a en plus environ 120.000 IDP (personnes déplacées à […]
La Escuelita. Nos fuimos muy temprano para acompañar a los niños a su escuela en la mañana. Ya nos esperaban. Nos fuimos caminando y a cada paso se unían más y más hasta que eran cientos de niños en camino a la escuelita. Ellos como cualquiera de nuestros niños, se reían, jugaban, se tomaban de […]