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Below are links to advocacy organizations, humanitarian aid organizations, and Darfur news sources.
- Africa Action
Africa Action is the oldest organization in the U.S. working on African affairs.
This national organization works for political, economic and social justice in Africa.
Africa Action has launched a Campaign to Stop Genocide in Darfur.
- Amnesty International
Amnesty International is a worldwide movement of people who campaign for internationally recognized human rights.
A great resource for news and reports on the situation in Darfur.
- Be A Witness -- Genocide IS News
During June 2005, CNN, FOXNews, NBC/MSNBC, ABC, and CBS ran 50 times as many stories about Michael Jackson and 12 times as many stories about
Tom Cruise as they did about the genocide in Darfur. Increased television coverage of the genocide in Darfur has the power to spur the action required
to stop a devastating crime against humanity. This campaign, which is sponsored by the American Progress Action Fund and the Genocide Intervention
Fund, targets the media’s lack of network coverage of this important crisis.
- Committee on Conscience
Part of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Committee on Conscience is mandated to alert the national conscience,
influence policy makers, and stimulate worldwide action to confront and work to halt acts of genocide or related crimes against
humanity. The Committee has issued a Genocide Emergency Alert for Darfur.
- Darfur Genocide
This site offers relevant and up-to-date information about the crisis, as well as ideas and information about ways to take action.
This site offers relevant and up-to-date information about the crisis, as well as ideas and information about ways to take action.
- Genocide Intervention Fund
The Genocide Intervention Fund aims to provide critically needed supplies to African Union peacekeepers on the ground in Darfur,
increase public awareness about genocide, and pressure the international community to fulfill its responsibility to protect civilians
targeted by genocide.
- Human Rights Watch
Human Rights Watch is working to document and end human rights abuses in Darfur. The site provides reports and images of the crisis, as well
as offers grassroots initiatives.
- International Crisis Group
The International Crisis Group works through field-based analysis and high-level advocacy to prevent and resolve deadly conflict. Excellent source
for background and history, current news, and analysis.
- Refugees International
Refugees International, an organization providing lifesaving humanitarian assistance and protection for displaced people,
has completed six missions to Sudan and Chad to assess the state of the crisis. Excellent resource for first-hand accounts,
news and information, and policy recommendations.
- Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism
The Religious Action Center (RAC) educates and mobilizes the American Jewish community on legislative and social concerns,
including the crisis in Darfur. The RAC, along with the Commission on Social Action, sponsors Dolls for Darfur.
- Save Darfur Coalition
The Save Darfur Coalition is an alliance of over 120 diverse, faith-based, humanitarian, and human rights organizations,
embled to raise public awareness and to mobilize efforts to help end the atrocities and reduce the suffering in Darfur
nearby refugee camps.
- Sudan Divestment
A divestment campaign targeting European and Asian multinational corporations (American companies are barred from
doing business with Sudan) that provide critical economic, commercial, and financial support to Khartoum. This site
provides information about companies investing in Sudan, individual states’ investment in Sudan and proposed
divestment legislation.
- American Jewish World Service
American Jewish World Service has been providing humanitarian aid to many of the displaced and traumatized people who have
been violently forced from their homes and are now living in camps in Sudan and Chad. AJWS funds are used to help develop
water sources, construct sanitation facilities, provide basic health care, and support educational, recreational and counseling
programs for children orphaned by the crisis in Darfur. AJWS is also engaged in a simultaneous education and advocacy campaign
to put pressure on United States and world leaders to end the crisis.
- Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international independent medical humanitarian organization that
delivers emergency aid to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, natural and man-made disasters, and exclusion from health
care in nearly 70 countries. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been providing emergency medical relief to people in Darfur since
December 2003. Today, nearly 180 international volunteers and 3,000 Sudanese staff are working in 29 locations throughout Darfur.
- CARE
CARE is one of the world's largest private international humanitarian organizations, committed to helping families in poor
communities improve their lives and achieve lasting victories over poverty. CARE has more than 400 staff on the ground
in Darfur and Chad distributing emergency food to more than 300,000 refugees each month and providing water and
sanitation for some 265,000 people.
- International Committee of the Red Cross
The International Committee of the Red Cross delivers food, water, shelter, household goods, and primary health and medical care
to IDPs and resident populations struggling to survive. Its neutral and independent stance and its contacts with all parties to the
conflict mean the ICRC can cross front lines and work throughout most of Darfur.
- International Rescue Committee
The International Rescue Committee serves refugees and communities victimized by oppression or violent conflict worldwide.
The IRC has been one of the largest providers of humanitarian aid in Sudan for more than 20 years. The organization is providing
emergency assistance to the hundreds of thousands of uprooted people fleeing the violence in Darfur.
- Islamic Relief
Islamic Relief manages the Kerinding II camp for displaced families, many of whom had been living in local schools. The camp
accommodates over 6,000 people who regularly receive food, plastic sheeting, soap, jerrycans and local building materials to
build traditional homes. Islamic Relief staff drill water wells, run a health clinic, and have opened a school for displaced children.
- Mercy Corps
Mercy Corps is working to improve conditions for nearly 90,000 Sudanese living in three refugee camps across Darfur. Mercy
Corps has begun providing education supplies and services to 14,000 children, including rehabilitating three schools and
constructing 180 temporary classrooms, and continues to look for new and creative ways to meet the needs of families living
in the camps.
- Oxfam
Oxfam is helping over 700,000 people in Darfur and Chad, working with communities to fight the spread of disease and save
lives. They are providing vital clean water, building latrines, installing washing facilities, and distributing essential items such
as buckets and jerry cans for carrying water, soap, sanitary cloths, clean clothes, ground sheets, blankets and plastic sheeting
for building shelters. Oxfam works closely with communities, in particular with women’s groups, to understand their needs and priorities.
- Plan USA
Plan USA is an organization committed to helping children, their families and communities in 45 developing countries around the
world. Plan USA is working with UNICEF, the Northern Darfur State Ministry of Education and families to improve access to education
to children affected by the crisis.
- Save the Children
Save the Children has conducted large-scale humanitarian relief and protection programs in West Darfur State continuously since
March 2004. Despite insecurity and sporadic violence, Save the Children has not withdrawn from any camp and continues to deliver
essential health, nutrition, protection and other programs. Save the Children delivers 85 percent of the food being made available in
West Darfur State by the World Food Program. They operate therapeutic feeding centers for malnourished children under age 5
and have opened several new women’s centers.
- UNICEF
UNICEF works with other UN agencies, 39 NGOs and local authorities in the Darfur region to provide humanitarian
assistance to the vulnerable population in the area. Currently, 108 UNICEF staff members are based in Darfur.
UNICEF’S key priorities are water and environmental sanitation, health and nutrition, education, child protection, and relief and shelter.
- World Food Programme
The World Food Programme (WFP) is the United Nations frontline agency mandated to combat global hunger which afflicts one out
of every seven people on earth. WFP has so far received US$286 million of the US$467 million it requires to feed an average of 2.3
million people each month in Darfur in 2005, leaving a 39 percent shortfall.
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