Darfur A Genocide We can Stop

Presented by Hsin-yi Lee

Director of Academics, NTUMUN

What is Peacekeeping?• UN definition :a way to help countries torn

by conflict create conditions for sustainable peace

• authorized by the Security Council

• UN army?

Process

• Peace treaty signed

Comprehensive Peace Agreement

• Security Council creates mission

SC resolution 1590, 24 March 2005

United Nations Mission in Sudan(UNMIS)

• Department of Peacekeeping Operation

• Form ad hoc coalitions

United Nations Mission in Sudan

Three Central Powers

Head of Mission Deputy Special Representativeof the Secretary-General

Force Commander

UNMIS to UNAMID• funding problem for the AU Mission in the

Sudan (AMIS)

• Refusal of UNMIS expansion by Sudanese Government

• Idea of hybrid mission

• On August 24, Sudan rejected attending a United Nations Security Council meeting

• Sudan asked AU force to leave

• "they have no right to transfer this assignment to the United Nations or any other party. This right rests with the government of Sudan."

Darfur Peace Agreement

• Signed 5 May, 2006

• Government of Sudan and the Sudan Liberation Movement/Army (Minni Minawi)

UNAMID

• The hybrid UN/AU force was finally approved on 31 July 2007

• UNAMID will take over from AMIS by 31 December 2007

Genocide or Not?

• UN report in 2005: mass murders and rapes, “ genocidal intent appears to be missing.”

• Arab world: "not genocide," simply "war crimes."

NEVER AGAINthen there was Rwanda

NOW DARFURThe first genocide in the 21s

t Century

UN Aid Agencies

• OCHA - Humanitarian Affairs UNHCHR - Human Rights

• UNDP - Development

• UNHCR - Refugees

• UNICEF - Children

• WFP - Food

• WHO - Health

World Food Program

• Emergency food assistance

• Country Program

• School feeding

UNICEF The United Nations Children's Fund

• Water and environmental sanitation

• Health and nutrition

• Education

• Child protection

• Relief and shelter

World Health Organization

• Health actions in crisis ECOSOC (Economic and Social Council)

OCHA (Coordination of Humanitarian Action)

UNDG (United Nations Development Group)

ECHA (Executive Committee on Humanitarian Affairs)

• Health as a bridge to peace

WHAT CAN YOU DO?

400,000 DEATHS

2 million more driven from home

Harvard Darfur Action Group

"Students Dream for Darfur" vigil at 2:00 PM in Harvard Yard on Sunday, October 7, 2007.

• Created by high school students

• Awareness through Stories

• Fundraising Ideas

• National Action Campaign

• Petition

• Donations

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Darfur A Genocide YOU can Stop