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Emergency Darfur Action: 28 January 2011
E-mail UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and tell him and the international community to not handover control of the Darfur peaces process to the Khartoum government, the main perpetrator of the on-going genocide. E-mail the UN Secretary-General (inquiries@UN.org) this...
Obama’s National Security Advisor Answers Gabriel’s Question
Recently ForeignPolicy.com asked the most liked questions on their facebook page to Deputy National Security Advisor Denis McDonough as a follow-up to the State of the Union. Gabriel submitted a question, you liked it, and they asked it. Check out his answer: The full...
The Referenda Countdown (Oct 3, 2010 – Jan 9, 2011)
There’s no time to lose. In less than 100 days, Sudan will decide whether or not to divide itself in two. Preparations are woefully behind, and civilians are at real risk of escalating violence and a potential return to war. In Darfur, nearly three million civilians...
Look Back and Moving Forward
I’ve definitely become more openly emotional since I started traveling to the refugee camps three years ago. I tend to feel heart ache and tears swell up in my eyes when something warm and fuzzy, however cheesy it might be, happens. I usually push the emotion away and...
The perpetrators are still in power (Reason #77)
Because Bashir said this after a journalist caught policing beating a women violently, “There are people who say they feel ashamed about this sentence. They should review their interpretation of Islam because sharia has always stipulated that one must whip, cut,...
For our friends, who are your friends (Reasons #78-95)
Our friends Jimiya, Khadija, Ali, Khaltouma, Bussina and Salma, Murtada, Sulieman, Sadia, Ali, Alfader, Sader, Hafsa, Alhapis, Bashir and Bashar, Hassayna,...
Why Darfur? Because I can make a difference and so can you (Reasons #96-98)
As the Umda said, the new generation of children from Darfur must create their own road. One that is both from the old ways of Darfur taught to them by their parents and the new traditions and culture from life in the camps. “Only they will know what the path will...
Looking at Hassayna (#99 What would you wish for your own child?)
“All of these here, born here in the camp,” the camp leader told us, as we look at a group of wide-eyed kids. The others in the group, they were probably either in their mother’s womb or too young to remember Darfur. He also said that they do not...
Reason #100
Share your own reason Why Darfur….