Sudan Referendum Faces New Challenges While Violence in Darfur Rises
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i-ACT Expedition #10 Day 9
One student’s story takes you to the heart of the Darfur conflict. It is memories like these that carry on through generations to come. And it is kids like Yaya that motivate us to continue to work for peace.
Did you miss the live stream with Darfuri students? Check out the recorded version of the School Assembly from Tuesday March 29, 2011!
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 More
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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 referendum in the South. Thank Secretary of State Hillary Clinton […]
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 our nine missions, there have been […]
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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Innocence (Reason #35)
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! This giggle was the first […]
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 […]