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Day 7: December 15

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Day 6: December 14

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Day 6: December 14

Day 6 Action

This week, the State Department announced the appointment of Ambassador Dane Smith as the senior U.S. diplomat for Darfur.  This has been a key ask by advocates, seeing the need for focused, on-going and high-level attention on Darfur during the days leading up to the referendum in the South.  Thank Secretary of State Hillary Clinton […]

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Day 5: December 13

Gun shot wounds don’t fade (Reason #31) and living in fear (Reason #32)

Just as Achta’s are still painful and terribly scarred, today we met another man whose scars from five gun shot wounds cover his arm and leg (Reason #31). He can’t hear well out of his right ear because he was beaten after being shot. He tells us his story of many attempts to escape from […]

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Day 5: December 13

Because children (Reason #33) take care of babies (Reason #34)

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Day 5: December 13

Innocence (Reason #35)

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Day 5: December 13

ACT: Join the Blue Key Campaign

December 14, 2010 is the 60th anniversary of the creation of the United Nations Refugee Agency. In support of their work to protect refugees worldwide displaced by war, violence, or persecution, join The Blue Key Campaign. Today there are nearly 43 million, nearly the combined populations of New York and Texas, who were forced from […]

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Day 5: December 13

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Press Releases

Senior Darfur diplomat should help revitalize peace process for Darfur, press human rights and humanitarian concerns

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Sudan Now applauds the appointment of Dane Smith as the senior U.S. diplomat for Darfur, and strongly urges President Obama and Secretary of State Hilary Clinton to appoint a team under the diplomat to help focus efforts on revitalizing the Darfur peace process, securing humanitarian access, and introducing accountability for human rights […]

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Day 4: December 12

Reason #25 – For a Jimiya’s family of three for one month: