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Reason #41: Advocacy works and this administration listens.
For several months the advocacy community has been asking for a Special Envoy for Darfur. On December 14th the administration announced that Ambassador Dan Smith would focus on Darfur as a senior diplomat. Read...
Pictures from Day 6
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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...
Voice, Faces, Not Just Numbers (They need to be heard, Reason #30)
I was about to write, “It seems so long ago that I was planning for the first i-ACT Expedition,” but, it WAS so long ago! It was 2005! Out here, UNHCR (the UN Refugee Agency) and NGOs call our trips, “missions.” It sounds romantic and dangerous. Looking back through...
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...
Because children (Reason #33) take care of babies (Reason #34)
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Innocence (Reason #35)
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Title: Experiencing Joy (Refugee camps harden children, Reason #36)
I don’t think words can explain how fun it was to see Bashir and Bashar, already two of my most favorite people in this entire camp, laugh and play with such joy and freedom. They would not stop laughing as they battled with James, cheetah vs dinosaur vs. fire truck!...
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...