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Pulitzer Center Update April 14, 2008

In Solidarity: Global Day for Darfur

Country:

Sudan
Author:

<strong>Bethany Whitfield, Special to the Pulitzer Center</strong><br>
Citizens and human rights activists across the nation and the world are rallying today, April 13, for Global Day for Darfur, a 24-hour campaign designed to draw attention to the violence that continues to plague the region five years after rebels took up arms. Some of the larger events of the day include an <a href="https://oneworlddc.collectivex.com/calendar/event/2008/4/13/44371">Amnesty International human rights exhibition</a> at D.C.'s National Mall, a <a href="https://www.savedarfur.org/page/event/detail/globaldaysfordarfur/4v74b">demonstration in the U.K</a> at the Sudanese embassy and a <a href="https://www.savedarfur.org/page/event/detail/globaldaysfordarfur/4v74g">rally in Vancouver</a> sponsored by Canadian Students for Darfur.<br>
While this conflict has attracted global attention, critics argue key players in the international community continue to perpetuate violence by failing to undertake stronger peacekeeping operations as well as a harsher stance against the Sudanese government. A strong focus of today's Global Day for Darfur is the call for a fuller implementation of the joint U.N.-African Union Mission in Darfur, a program initiated last July.<br>
Since 2003, the United Nations estimates that 200,000 have been killed in the region and over 2 million displaced. Darfur children born at the beginning of the conflict are now approaching school age and have witnessed the world through a lens of armed conflict and refugee camps.<br>
Additional News on Darfur<br>
<a href="https://hrw.org/reports/2008/darfur0408/">Five Years On: No Justice for Sexual Violence in Darfur</a><a href="https://www.darfurgenocide.org/travel.php"&gt;
Trip to Darfur Travelogue</a><a href="https://www.enoughproject.org/reports/creatingpeacedarfur"&gt;
Creating a Peace to Keep in Darfur - A Joint Report by the ENOUGH Project and the Save Darfur Coalition</a><a href="https://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/04/08/8159/"&gt;
UN Peace Missions Falter in Africa</a> <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/03/22/7829/"&gt;
China's Genocide Games</a><a href="https://www.msmagazine.com/news/uswirestory.asp?ID=10930"&gt;
Rape widespread in Darfur</a><a href="https://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/sudan/facts.html"&gt;
Sudan - The Quick and the Terrible</a><a href="https://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?id=3060&amp;l=1"&gt;
International Crisis Group - Crisis in Darfur</a>