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Day One: Alternative Opening Ceremony

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Day Two: How Refugees Live

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Day Three: Caring for Families

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Day Four: Darfur and China

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Day Five: Justice for the Darfurian People?

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Day Six: Darfur's Children

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Day Seven: Women of Darfur

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Day Eight: The Closing Ceremony

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Day 6 of 8: Darfur's Children

  
 
Our partners, Gabriel Stauring and Katie-Jay Scott of i-ACT / Stop Genocide Now, produced this event in Chad. Please visit their website to help bring Darfur's voices to the world.

Children in Darfur face atrocities of the worst kind: they have been, and continue to be, abducted, raped, tortured and murdered. Boys are recruited to become soldiers.

Children who make it to camps are traumatized, and often do not have enough to eat or access to medical care.

In today's webcast, Mia comments on the state of Darfur's children.

Coming tomorrow: Mia talks to women refugees.

Broadcast-quality footage of many of the videos on this website is available to members of the press.

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Act: Protect the People of Darfur

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Protect the People of Darfur

As the children of Darfur continue to suffer, the member states of the United Nations allow Khartoum to continue its campaign of destruction against an unarmed population.

Take action now by urging the Ambassadors from the United States, the United Kingdom, Russia and France to help China insist that Khartoum immediately admit the full protection force authorized by the UN last summer.
 
 

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The Darfur Consortium's report, Putting People First: The Protection Challenge Facing UNAMID in Darfur, examines the failure of the United Nations/African Union hybrid peacekeeping force authorized last July to offer adequate protection to the people of Darfur.

Based on interviews with Darfurians, experts and aid workers, the report depicts a force hamstrung by lack of equipment, training and uniformed personnel, and by its own shortcomings. The report concludes that many Darfurians feel no safer than they did before the force arrived.
 
 

Mia Farrow's Blog

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(Nov 20, 2008)

ICC calls for arrest warrants for rebel splinter faction responsible for Haskanita murders of peacekeepers. Today the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (I.C.C.), Luis Moreno-Ocampo, applied for an arrest warrant for war crimes against several members of a splinter rebel faction in Darfur related to the September 29, 2007 attack on ... Read More

JEM Rebel Group going to Qatar for peace talk (Nov 17, 2008)

Although the JEM rebel group recently said it would have nothing to do with the Qatar sponsored peace initiative, their London-based spokesperson, Ahmed Hussein Adam, texted Reuters to say JEM would be sending a delegation to Doha for “consultation” with Qatari leadership. "This is just to explain to them our vision on the peaceful solution and to hear more from them on the issue." The Arab ... Read More

(Nov 16, 2008)

Shedding light http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article29268 This is huge. Shihab would not make such a statement without green light from Mubarak. It sheds some light on the closed meeting between Bashir and Mubarak this week. Bear in mind that it was Shihab himself who kept making statement after statement- since July (all documented) that ICC has no ... Read More

(Nov 15, 2008)

Understanding the situation in Congo today The current crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the recruitment of children, the killing of civilians and the displacement of hundreds of thousands of people is but the latest in an unbroken chain of human suffering. The UN peacekeeping force in Congo, the largest in the world, has proved incapable of protecting ... Read More

(Nov 15, 2008)

The ICC's possible indictment of Sudan's president continues to provide leverage for a peace process . But many remain skeptical. In July, the chief prosecutor of the ICC sought an arrest warrant for Omar Al-Bashir on 10 counts of genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. Sudan, not surprisingly, wants the UN Security Council to suspend any proceedings for a year. ( China, ... Read More

Darfur Daily News

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INTEVRIEW-Darfur peacekeepers face logistics nightmare (Aug 15, 2008)

KHARTOUM, Aug 15 (Reuters) - It will take weeks to deploy more peacekeepers to Darfur even once reinforcements arrive because of the difficulties of operating in the remote region of western Sudan, the force commander said on Friday. ... Read More

Conditions allow about 500 Sudan immigrants to stay, work in US with temporary legal status (Aug 14, 2008)

WASHINGTON (AP) _ Immigrants from Sudan granted temporary legal status can stay and continue to work in the U.S. if they reregister with the Department of Homeland Security, the federal government said Thursday. ... Read More

Lifting the veil (Aug 14, 2008)

A witness and victim of the conflict in Darfur finds a voice ... Read More

Sudan's Bashir to make first trip abroad since ICC move (Aug 14, 2008)

By Opheera McDoom KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir will travel to Turkey in August, his first trip abroad since the International Criminal Court moved to indict him for genocide in Darfur, a presidential source and state media said. ... Read More

Rebels say Sudanese government has launched new offensive in northern Darfur (Aug 13, 2008)

By Sarah El Deeb, The Associated Press KHARTOUM, Sudan - Rebel leaders say the Sudanese government has launched a new offensive deep into rebel-held desert areas in northern Darfur. ... Read More 		 
    

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