For Immediate Release: February 15, 2011 WASHINGTON, D.C. – Just one week after the announcement that South Sudan will soon become the world’s newest nation following a largely peaceful referendum process, Sudan Now today released a report assessing the stalled progress for peace in Darfur and the need for a series of interventions to get […]
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Empowerment and Inspiration
Today, we set up MY HOME: A Walk Through Children’s Memories of Darfur in Redding, CA at Turtle Bay Exploration Park. It was a long day, but at the end of eight hours of setting up fabric walls, assembling bamboo stands, and hanging drawings there were more than thirty volunteer docents from Genocide No More–Save […]
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Darfur Roadmap to Peace
In Darfur, violence is on the rise and a deeply flawed peace process is coming to an end. In 2010 alone, more than 2,300 Darfuris were killed and over 300,000 civilians were displaced. Today, Sudan Now released a new paper, A Roadmap for Peace in Darfur, which calls for a reinvigorated plan for ending the […]
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Where are they now?
Please Join Us in Calling for the United Nations Security Council to Prevent Obstruction by the Government of Sudan and Fulfill its Responsibility to the People of Darfur Satellite images document that the Government of Sudan (GoS) continues to target civilians in Darfur as grave crimes continue 8 years after the genocide began. Yet agencies […]
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Impossible?
One of many lessons learned from current events is that the impossible IS possible. When people take on personal responsibility for the wellbeing of their brothers and sisters and do their part, big or small, towards positive change, “everything is possible” is no longer a corny slogan. The impossible becomes possible. In Egypt, we’re seeing […]
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 note (or your own words): Dear Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon: The United Nations should make clear in the African […]
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 are living in camps and facing violence, rape and […]
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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 move on quickly without looking back. But […]
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 be.” This reminds me […]
“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 have the resources to dedicate curriculum […]