Today is the blogging Global Day for Darfur, as organized by Danielle at Modern Musings. There are 25 bloggers participating today, so head over to Modern Musings for a list of participants and please read what they have to say.
The mission of this blogging day is to Educate, Motivate, and Activate.
See also great sites like Human Rights Watch, Dream for Darfur, and Darfur: An Unforgivable Hell on Earth for up to date information.
The genocide in Darfur has been going on for five years now. This from Save Darfur:
After five years of conflict in Darfur, children are reaching school age having experienced nothing but armed conflict. A million Darfuri children have grown up displaced, living in camps for refugees and internally displaced persons, many without opportunities for education, without knowing the meaning of home.
This from Human Rights Watch:
(New York, April 7, 2008) – Five years into the Darfur conflict, women and girls need protection from rape and brutal attacks still being committed by government forces and armed groups throughout Darfur, Human Rights Watch said in a new report released today.
Neither government security forces nor international peacekeepers have provided sufficient protection for women and girls, who remain extremely vulnerable to rape and other abuses during large-scale attacks and even in periods of relative calm, Human Rights Watch said. Survivors of sexual violence face numerous obstacles to justice, leaving them without meaningful redress. Where the perpetrators are soldiers or militia, the chances of prosecution are still more remote.
The Olympic Games being held in Bejing this year has brought a renewed scrutiny on China and its human rights record. Senators Clinton and Obama have called on President Bush to boycott the Olympics Opening Ceremony. I applaud their stances, but I also think it is important to remember the role that U.S. imperialism often plays in its attempts to “help” countries in need. So yeah, what about the Congo? It is important to stand in solidarity with the Darfur victims, to aid them as best we can, but we must be careful to insure that any U.S. involvement in this crisis is not just another profit oriented excursion at the expense of dark-skinned folk’s lives.
What can we do to help?
Email Corporate Sponsors of the Olympics
Petition the International Olympic Committee
Explore all of the other options of what you can do
Peace, to have meaning for many who have only known suffering in both peace and war, must be translated into bread or rice, shelter, health and education, as well as freedom and human dignity.
Ralph Johnson Bunche (1904-1971)
In Solidarity: Global Day for Darfur…
Today is the blogging Global Day for Darfur, as organized by Danielle at Modern Musings. There are 25 bloggers participating today, so head over to Modern Musings for a list of participants and please read what they have to say. The mission of this blo…
Thank you for adding your might voice to the roar.
Genocide no more!
You have harnessed your power potential by furthering education on the genocidal depopulation scheme in Darfur. The precedence must be set in stone, senseless murder is not tolerable at any scale.
I truly appreciate your sharing the action links. Adding signatures to these petitions have been successful in the past.
Many people were inspired to join the movement after reading a post in the blogblast and I am still collecting links.
In light and love
Thank you again.
Thanks, Danielle. Although you really don’t have to thank me. I feel it is my duty as an activist blogger to take part in these blogblasts.
One thing that I think is important, is to not limit our covering of issues to these blogblasts. I’m not accusing anyone of doing so, but looking through my own archives, I see that I’ve written very little about Darfur (nothing about the Congo. Shame on me.). So, this blogblast awakened me to the need to address these situations more often. So, really, Thank You!