Drawings Highlight the Destruction of Their Villages and Life in a Refugee Camp MEDIA ALERT August 20, 2010 For Immediate Release Contact: Katie-Jay Scott, ktj@iactivism.org WHAT: MY HOME: A Walk Through Children’s Memories of Darfur is a multi-media exhibit. The children’s voices, faces, and drawings tell their horrific stories. They also show the beauty and […]
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On Friday, Foreign Policy Magazine broke the news suggesting that, after months of delay, a plan for moving the U.S. Policy on Sudan forward has finally landed on President Obama’s desk. As Sudan prepares for a referendum that is likely to split it in two, and as the humanitarian crisis in Darfur grows increasingly dire […]
One hundred fourteen Darfuris and 27 Associations and Organizations in North America issued a statement today calling on the international community to act on their Responsibility to Protect (R2P), particularly the United States: “Currently, our people in the Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp of Kalma are under threat of violence, homelessness, and lack of basic […]
I remember being at the camps in 2006 on i-Act 2 just before the US Presidential Election Season kicked into high gear. Gabriel and I met a group of men, women and children from Darfur who had traveled with fire at their backs and no home in their future to get to relative safety and […]
In a recent New York Times article on August 4th titled, “Violence Said to Be Rising in Sudan’s Darfur Region,” reporter Neil McFarquhar writes regarding the Obama administration’s view of the genocide in Darfur, “They deny a rift, but one senior State Department official said that Washington was still struggling to define a policy. ‘There […]
I could try and convey a message that compares something we are familiar with to trying to understand the hardships of our Darfuri brother and sisters. I could write about how my parents’ AC unit went out this summer. Now, they live in 110 degrees of summer heat. Their house is unbearable and probably a […]
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I Feel Like I Have Said This Before
I feel like I have said this before. I feel like I have said the same thing many times, in my writings about Darfur–what has happened and is happening over there, and what needs to be done over here. I went from being a family counselor, advising abused children and their families here in Southern […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE : August 6, 2010 CONTACTS: Jonathan Hutson, jhutson@enoughproject.org, 857-919-5130 Janessa Goldbeck, goldbeck@genocideintervention.net, 202-559-7405 Ann Brown, abrown@savedarfur.org, 301-633-4193 WASHINGTON, D.C. – Human rights advocacy organizations expressed dismay today following reports that the Obama Administration is not approaching the situation in Sudan with the urgency it demands. In a New York Times article published […]
Darfuri civilians are under increasing attack – Human Rights Watch recently reported that in May 2010 alone there were approximately 600 deaths, thousands displaced and increased rapes. Homes and water pumps have been destroyed as Government forces and allied militias have illegally targeted civilian populations. This week, Ambassador Rice expressed concern at the increasingly volatile […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact -Susan Morgan, 617-797-0451 susan@paxcommunications.org CITIES NATIONWIDE – July 22, 2010 – In an open letter to President Obama and leading members of his administration, 43 human rights and anti-genocide organizations representing citizens from 20 states and actress Mia Farrow wrote that the “administration appears to be AWOL on the U.S. Sudan […]