Refuse to Ignore

conflict background

Read a quick synopsis of the conflict in Darfur from the Save Darfur Coalition;

Read detailed reports relating to Darfur from the International Crisis Group;

Read about the prevalence of rape in Darfur at Amnesty International;

Read about the dangers of firewood collection for women and girls in Darfur in a report from the Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children;

Watch Darfur Diaries (2006), a moving 60-minute documentary about Darfur;

Watch the PBS documentary Sudan: The Quick and the Terrible online;

View a photo exhibit Eyewitness Account of Brian Steidle: "In Darfur my camera was not enough" from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

role of international community and R2P

Learn about US Congressional legislation regarding Darfur from the Genocide Intervention Network;

Read the Save Darfur Coalition's Darfur Backgrounder and Policy Talking Points , released January 22, 2007;

Learn more about R2P and its role in the UN by visiting the Responsibility to Protect--Engaging Civil Society project;

Keep updated on current events in Darfur and the role of the international community by reading the Save Darfur Coalition news blog;

Read A Problem From Hell: America and the Age of Genocide by Samantha Power (2002).

Unite and Act

Darfur advocacy groups
Genocide Intervention Network ( genocideintervention.net/index.php );
Human Rights Watch ( hrw.org );
International Crisis Group ( crisisgroup.org );
International Rescue Committee ( theirc.org );
Oxfam International ( oxfam.org );
Save Darfur Coalition ( savedarfur.org );
STAND: A Student Anti-Genocide Coalition ( standnow.org );
Sudan Divestment Task Force ( sudandivestment.org )
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum - Committee on Conscience ( ushmm.org/conscience/ );
Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children ( womenscommission.org ).