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SENIOR DARFUR DIPLOMAT SHOULD HELP REVITALIZE PEACE PROCESS FOR DARFUR, PRESS HUMAN RIGHTS AND HUMANITARIAN CONCERNS
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Sudan Now applauded the appointment of Dane Smith as the senior U.S. diplomat for Darfur, and strongly urged President Obama and Secretary of State Hilary Clinton to appoint a team under the diplomat to help focus efforts on...
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...
Mangos (Reasons #22), Guavas (#23), and Lost Memories of Home (#24)
We always ask the people we meet what they miss about Darfur. The refugees have given a diversity of answers that paint a beautiful picture of a calm and peaceful life of agrarians and villagers. They speak about their fields, the herds that the boys watched over...
Reason #25 – For a Jimiya’s family of three for one month:
Reasons #26, #27, #28) (3 total) – These women do not have the refugee cards they need in order to receive food in the camps. Some have been waiting to register for more than a year.
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ACT
The genocide in Darfur has waged so long that the children who once lived there are beginning to forget their memories of home. It’s not cheap to wage such a long campaign of destruction. The government of Sudan is financially supported by companies like PetroChina,...
Pictures from Day 4
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Reason #12: Children deserve a childhood
When we met Raouda in January 2009 we asked her what she missed about Darfur. She described a small animal that had cotton inside it, a stuffed animal! Something almost every child has connected with at one time or another during their life. Several people sent us...