save Darfur
Since early 2003, Sudanese government soldiers and their proxy ethnic militia, known as the Janjaweed, have fought rebel groups in the western region of Darfur. The government and Janjaweed strategy has been to carry out systematic assaults against civilians from the same ethnic groups as the rebels: the Fur, Zaghawa, and Masaalit. Rebel forces are responsible for some attacks against civilians, but overwhelmingly the Sudanese government and Janjawed have perpetrated the violence.
Hundreds of thousands of civilians have died from violence, disease, and starvation, and thousands of women and children have been raped. About 2,500,000 civilians have been driven from their homes, their villages torched and property stolen. Thousands of villages have been systematically destroyed. More than 200,000 Sudanese have escaped to the neighboring country of Chad, but most are trapped inside Darfur. Thousands more die each month from the effects of inadequate food, water, health care, and shelter in a harsh desert environment. (from Sudan: Darfur Overview at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum website)
Not On Our Watch is partnering with the International Rescue Committee to aid hundreds of thousands of people uprooted by the Darfur crisis. Through Not On Our Watch and the IRC, your support will fund programs that treat the sick, prevent disease, enable children to heal and learn, shelter the displaced, teach new skills and protect the most vulnerable in the Darfur region.
If you select Save Darfur upon checkout, 10% of the proceeds from your purchase will be donated to Not on Our Watch, through the International Rescue Committee. Click on the link to review the International Rescue Committee’s Charity Navigator report card.
Other ways you can help:
Call on Congress to Stop the Genocide in Darfur
Genocide Emergency: Darfur, Sudan - What Can I Do?
Urge your elected officials to fund peacekeeping in Darfur
More Information:
Amnesty International: Eyes on Darfur
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Additional Resources:
Books
Not On Our Watch, By Don Cheadle and John Prendergast
Darfur—The Ambiguous Genocide, By Gerard Prunier
Darfur—The Short History of a Long War, By Julie Flint and Alex de Waal
A Problem From Hell—America and the Age of Genocide, By Samantha Power
Winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, and National Book Critics Circle Award Winner
What is the What, By Dave Eggers
They Poured Fire On Us From the Sky, By Judy Bernstein
Films
Darfur Diaries
By Aisha Bein, Jen Marlowe and Adam Shapiro
Sand and Sorrow
By Paul Freedman
The Devil Came on Horseback
By Annie Sunderberg and Ricki Stern
They Turned Our Desert Into Fire
By Mark Brecke
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