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After sitting here for a while in my comfortable living room, fingers hovering over my keyboard, I tried eagerly to come up with some compelling testimony of why I’m a Darfur/Sudan activist. It’s the moment that I realized that while I’m in my comfortable living room,...
How important were books to your childhood?
There is much excitement as i-ACT 10 gets ready to depart. This trip feels very special to the team because we are beginning the fulfillment of a long standing need for books in the camps. We are launching The i-ACT Refuge(e)-Reading Project. This project allows us to...
STALLED PEACE PROCESS IN DARFUR & NEEDED STEPS FOR REAL REFORM
For Immediate Release: February 15, 2011 WASHINGTON, D.C. – Just one week after the announcement that South Sudan will soon become the world’s newest nation following a largely peaceful referendum process, Sudan Now today released a report assessing the stalled...
ADVOCACY GROUPS APPLAUD BIPARTISAN SUPPORT FOR LEGISLATION TO PREVENT RENEWAL OF SUDAN SUPPORT FOR LORD’S RESISTANCE ARMY
**FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE** Tuesday, March 8 – WASHINGTON, D.C. – A collection of advocacy groups applauded U.S. Representatives Ed Royce (R-CA) and Jim McGovern (D-MA) for introducing legislation last week that would encourage Obama Administration efforts to pressure...
April is Genocide Prevention Month
In 2010, the California State Legislature proclaimed April of each year Genocide Awareness and Prevention Month (GAPM). The State Legislature chose April because several 20th century genocides, from the Armenian genocide to Cambodia and Bosnia, are commemorated during...
Empowerment and Inspiration
Today, we set up MY HOME: A Walk Through Children’s Memories of Darfur in Redding, CA at Turtle Bay Exploration Park. It was a long day, but at the end of eight hours of setting up fabric walls, assembling bamboo stands, and hanging drawings there were more than...
Darfur Roadmap to Peace
In Darfur, violence is on the rise and a deeply flawed peace process is coming to an end. In 2010 alone, more than 2,300 Darfuris were killed and over 300,000 civilians were displaced. Today, Sudan Now released a new paper, A Roadmap for Peace in Darfur, which calls...
Where are they now?
Please Join Us in Calling for the United Nations Security Council to Prevent Obstruction by the Government of Sudan and Fulfill its Responsibility to the People of Darfur Satellite images document that the Government of Sudan (GoS) continues to target civilians in...
Impossible?
One of many lessons learned from current events is that the impossible IS possible. When people take on personal responsibility for the wellbeing of their brothers and sisters and do their part, big or small, towards positive change, “everything is...