Darfur Olympics


	Day 2 of 8: How Refugees Live
	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.		Since 2003, 2.5 million Darfurians have fled their homes in terror and now live in camps. Hundreds of thousands crossed into neighboring Chad, some walking for weeks to find safety. In this webcast, Mia Farrow looks out across the expanse of a refugee camp for Darfurians, and describes how people live and still manage to hope after five years. Coming tomorrow: Mia speaks to a woman about caring for children. Broadcast-quality footage of many of the videos on this website is available to members of the press.
	Act: Call The White House President Bush pledged to raise the issue of Darfur with Chinese leaders at the Beijing Olympic Games. Ask the President to urge the Chinese government to help bring security to Darfur – using the first-ever anti-genocide hotline, created by the Genocide Intervention Network.
	Learn More Read the report by Physicians for Human Rights entitled Darfur - Assault on Survival: A Call for Security, Justice and Restitution. In its report, Darfur - Assault on Survival: A Call for Security, Justice and Restitution, Physicians for Human Rights provides ample evidence of an organized attempt to destroy non-Arab populations. The organizaton also gathered information about refugees' lives before the government and militia attacks, the attacks themselves, and the scale and scope of destruction.
	Mia Farrow's Blog (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 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