What you can do about Darfur!!!

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What You Can Do About Darfur
In the United States

General:

Inform Yourself About Darfur:

Read Human Rights Watchs publications on Darfur at <a href="http://www.hrw.org/doc?t=africa&c=darfu ... =darfur</a>. You can see HRWs reports on abuses in Darfur and our photo galleries from the region, watch video, and listen to radio segments on the crisis in Western Sudan.


Write to Your Local Newspaper:

Or contact your local radio and TV stations, and ask them for more news on Darfur! IRIN, Integrated Regional Information Networks, has a CD-Rom available about Darfur: Peace under Fire: Sudans Darfur Crisis. This is for use in advocacy and has links and reports and articles. Contact irin@ocha.unon.org for a copy. Many resources are available from <a href="http://www.savedarfur.org">www.savedarfur.org</a>, a network for activists working on Darfur.


Hold a Video Screening:

Raise public awareness of the crisis in Darfur by inviting friends and neighbors to a screening of Human Rights Watchs video Darfur Destroyed, available in DVD format. The six-minute video includes scenes of burned and bombed villages and extensive interviews with the civilian victims of the crisis. Villagers interviewed for the video describe attacks by those they call Janjaweed militias operating in concert with Sudanese government forces.

Write to the Members of the U.N. Security Council (addresses below):

Urge them to take action on Darfur to reverse ethnic cleansing and to open the region to humanitarian access. Ask the Security Council to do the following:


Under Chapter VII of the U.N. Charter, assume civilian protection in Darfur, immediately planning for and implementing the transfer of the African Union Mission in Sudan (AMIS) civilian protection force to a U.N. Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) force of at least a 20,000by bluehatting where possible;

Fully support the AMIS military and police mission in the interim;

Impose an arms embargo against the Sudanese government, with a mechanism for monitoring and enforcement; and

Impose sanctions on individuals as recommended by the Panel of Experts December 8, 2005 report to the Sanctions Committee of the Security Council.




Write to U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan: Ask him to

Take the lead on advocacy for Darfur in the international forum;

Seek a broad international coalition of countries concerned about these massive human rights abuses and lack of access to humanitarian relief;

Visit Darfur and speak out regularly on the needed international action to protect civilians in Darfur; and

Speed up the preparations for the full transfer of AMIS to a UN DPKO force in Darfur.

You may contact him at: <a href="mailto:inquiries@un.org">inquiries@un.org</a>

Write to the Sudanese Government: Ask the Sudanese government to do the following:

Respect the Ndjamena, Chad April 2004 humanitarian ceasefire agreement;

Withdraw helicopters and all military aircraft from Darfur;

Formally request the transition of the AMIS force to a UN DPKO force;

Cooperate with the African Union;

Disarm and disband the anti-rebel militia forces (called Janjaweed by their victims) active in Darfur and Chad;

Reverse ethnic cleansing by withdrawing those militia forces/Janjaweed from the parts of Darfur they have occupied from 2003 to the present;

Provide full and expedited humanitarian access to the internally displaced (in displaced areas and on return to their home areas), and to those returning from Chad;

Cooperate with the International Criminal Court;

Provide full and unimpeded access for national and international human rights monitoring missions; and

Investigate and prosecute those government forces and allied militias and government officials responsible for the Darfur campaign (2003-present).

Letters to the Sudanese government should be addressed to the following individuals:

President Omar El Bashir
Mr Ali Osman Mohamed Taha, First Vice-President
People's Palace
PO Box 281
Khartoum, Sudan
Fax: 00-249-11-771025
[Salutation: Your Excellency]

Ali Muhammad Osman Yasin
Minister of Justice and Attorney General
Ministry of Justice
Khartoum, Sudan
Fax: 00-249-11-770883
[Salutation: Dear Minister]

Dr. Lam Akol Ajawin
Minister of Foreign Affairs
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
PO Box 873
Khartoum, Sudan
Fax: 00-249-11-779383
[Salutation: Dear Minister]

Mr. El-Zahawi Ibrahim Malik
Minister of Information
Ministry of Information and Communications
PO Box 291
Khartoum, Sudan
Fax: 00-249-11-780146
[Salutation: Dear Minister]

Please send copies of your letters to:

His Excellency Khidir Ahmed
Embassy of the Republic of the Sudan
2210 Mass Ave N.W.
Washington D.C. 20008
Fax: 202-667-2406

or:

His Excellency Dr. Hassan Abdin
The Embassy of the Republic of the Sudan
3 Cleveland Row, St James's, London SW1A 1DD
Tel: (020) 7839 8080
Fax: (020) 7839 7560
Email: <a href="mailto:zb24@pipex.com">zb24@pipex.com</a>

Write to the leaders of the rebel forces in Darfur:
Ask them to do the following:

Respect the Ndjamena, Chad April 2004 humanitarian ceasefire agreement;

Cease using persons under the age of eighteen years in hostilities;

Provide full and expedited humanitarian access to the internally displaced (in displaced areas and on return to their home areas), and to those returning from Chad; and

Cooperate with the African Union.

Letters to the rebel leaders should be addressed as follows:

Dr. Khalil Ibrahim
Chairman, Justice and Equality Movement
c/o Sam Ibok, African Union mediator
Darfur peace talks
Chida Hotel
Abuja, Nigeria

Mr. Minni Arkou Minawi
Sudan Liberation Army/Movement
c/o Sam Ibok, African Union mediator
Darfur peace talks
Chida Hotel
Abuja, Nigeria

Mr. Abdel Wahid Mohamed al Nour
Sudan Liberation Army/Movement
c/o Sam Ibok, African Union mediator
Darfur peace talks
Chida Hotel
Abuja, Nigeria

For the United States:

Contact Your Elected Representatives: Write and call your representatives in Congress and the State Department, asking them to support U.S. and international efforts to reverse ethnic cleansing and stop attacks against civilians in Darfur. Ask President Bush, members of Congress, and the State Department to do the following:

Visit and speak out on Darfur;

Support a Chapter VII resolution in the U.N. Security Council that will reverse ethnic cleansing, protect civilians, permit the voluntary return of refugees and displaced persons to their homes in safety and dignity, and ensure full humanitarian access;

Substantially fund the humanitarian, peacekeeping and other costs of Darfur, including the African Union Mission in Sudan; and

Demand that the government of Sudan cooperate with the International Criminal Court and effectively address accountability for human rights abuses and crimes against humanity in Sudan.

You may find the contact information for your Representative or Senator at: <a href="http://www.congress.org/congressorg/hom ... /home/.</a>

You may also contact the State Department by writing to the Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice, at U.S. Department of State, 2201 C Street NW, Washington, DC 20520; head of African affairs at the State Department, Jendayi Frazer, at <a href="mailto:frazerje@state.gov">frazerje@state.gov</a>; or the U.S. mission to the United Nations at <a href="mailto:usa@un.int">usa@un.int</a>.

You may write to President George W. Bush at the White House, Washington, D.C. or email: <a href="mailto:president@whitehouse.gov">president@whitehouse.gov</a>

Donate to Humanitarian Agencies: A number of nongovernmental humanitarian agencies are providing help to Sudanese refugees in Chad and to Darfurians inside Sudan. Contact the following agencies for more information on their work in Chad and Darfur:

CARE
151 Ellis Street NE
Atlanta, GA 30303-2440
United States
Phone: 1-800-521-CARE ext. 999
Online at: <a href="http://www.careusa.org">http://www.careusa.org </a>

Doctors Without Borders-Holland (Médecins Sans Frontières, MSF-H)
Doctors Without Borders-France (MSF-F):
Please contact MSFs New York office at 1-888-392-0392 or online at <a href="http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org">http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org </a>

International Committee of the Red Cross
19 avenue de la Paix
1202 Geneva, Switzerland
Online at: <a href="http://www.icrc.org">http://www.icrc.org </a>

International Rescue Committee
122 East 42nd Street
New York, NY 10168
United States
Phone: 212-551-3000
Online at: <a href="http://www.theirc.org">http://www.theirc.org </a>

Oxfam America
1100 15th St., NW Suite 600
Washington, DC 20005
Online at: <a href="http://www.oxfamamerica.org/"></a>

Save the Children-US
Attn: Donor Services
54 Wilton Road
Westport, CT 06880
Phone: 1-800-728-3843
Online at: <a href="http://www.savethechildren.org">http://www.savethechildren.org </a>

U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
c/o USA for UNHCR
1775 K Street, NW Suite 290
Washington, DC 20006
United States
Phone: 1-800-770-1100
Online at: <a href="http://www.usaforunhcr.org">http://www.usaforunhcr.org </a>

UNICEF (United Nations Childrens Fund)
c/o U.S. Fund for UNICEF
333 East 38th Street
New York, NY 10016
United States
Online at: <a href="http://www.unicefusa.org ">http://www.unicefusa.org</a?

[rotter]

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[rotter]

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