by jeff | Apr 19, 2017 | Blog
Bijan Razzaghi On April 9th of 2017, a camp in El Genneina, West Darfur full of displaced persons or IDPs was attacked by Sudanese government-backed Janjaweed militias. The pretext was that the displaced persons were to be removed from inside the camp and market to a...
by jeff | Apr 17, 2017 | Blog
http://www.darfurwomenaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/video-1492284441.mp4 Carla Ruas On April 30, 2006, 50,000 people gathered at the National Mall, in Washington, DC, to participate in the “Save Darfur” rally, an event planned to mobilize support...
by jeff | Apr 17, 2017 | Blog
http://www.darfurwomenaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/video-1492284464.mp4 Carla Ruas In the early 1980s, a communist militant group named Shining Path gained power in Peru, attracting a large number of followers and taking over territories in the...
by jeff | Apr 3, 2017 | Blog
Niemat Ahmadi Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir recently traveled to Jordan for the 28th summit of the Arab League. His presence was a stark contrast to 2014, when Jordan did not allow him to enter Amman, the capital of Jordan, to attend the summit. The reason for the...
by jeff | Mar 10, 2017 | Blog
by Adeena Eisen “This is not just a humanitarian issue,” said Anne-Marie Slaughter, President and CEO of New America, a think-tank based in Washington D.C. Slaughter was referring to the international community’s handling of mass atrocities. On January 31, 2017, she...
