Darfur

Darfur Refugee Women Speak Out: Risking Life for Human Rights
In June 2008, after a night of terror in a refugee camp for Darfur refugees in Chad (terror perpetrated by refugees living there), a group of courageous women living there decided to speak out. They created a document that has come to be called the Farchana Manifesto. To view the Youtube video ...

Africa Action is engaged in advocacy and activism to stop the genocide in Darfur, Sudan, where the Sudanese government has been waging a campaign of destruction against targeted African communities since 2003. More than 450,000 people have lost their lives and millions have been displaced, their livelihoods and villages destroyed by government forces and their proxy militias. Although the U.S. government has acknowledged this genocide, it has failed to take the necessary action to protect the people of Darfur. Africa Action is calling on President Obama to assert U.S. leadership in support of a multinational intervention to stop the ongoing genocide in Darfur. To learn more about Sudan ...

Let's add our voices and call for an international immediate effort to stop the ongoing genocide in DARFUR!

Darfur Awareness [Click to view brochure]

Who is the Darfur Refugee Mother? [Click to view answer]

For more information visit:
www.combonimissionaries.org
www.africaaction.org
www.savedarfur.org
www.catholiccincinnati.org/ministries-offices/catholic-social-action/priority-issues/darfur

 

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