Students Taking Action Now: Darfur (S.T.A.N.D.) Standnow.org and genocide

intervention net Structure: Core group and general body One large group that will split into

subcommittees for each individual event (such as fundraising, lobbying, publicity, event set up,…)

Media contact, community groups, religious groups

GOALS/NEXT MEETING Raise awareness around town Raise money for survivors in refugee camps Establish a media contact, establish contacts

with local officials (school, community, religious, etc…), Find local sponsors for events

Increase community participation Designate one person to send out emails, one

person to keep up with current events and STAND updates.

Plan first event (Lobbying day, vigil, rally, benefit performance)

VITAL STATISTICS

Over 400,000 INNOCENT civilians killed since 2003, 500 continue to die a day

Over 2.5 million Darfurians displaced

Over 4.5 million are hungryand more than 250,000 survivors are living in make-shift refugee camps, still fighting for their lives, a large number children

CURRENT SITUATION Increased attacks on refugee camps Tension between Chad and Sudan Darfur Peace Agreement-, 2006 Increased tensions as Sudan declared

they will refuse the presence of UN troops

AU declared it will end its mission on Sept. 30

Rival rebel groups continue to fight

CURRENT LEGISLATION DC to Darfur lobbying weekend in Washington

and HR 723 (No flying zone in Darfur, 173 million dollars, NATO bridging force)

HR 723 has gained 50 co-sponsors since that weekend plus Congress granted an additional 173 million dollars to the African Union.

Needed legislation-international support, need for accountability, funding, UN troops

Problems-China and Russia have political and economic interests in Sudan, lack of funding and international pressure, easily swayed AU troops, size of country v. size of AU, no protection and horrible conditions for refugees, possible war with Chad

SITUATION IN REFUGEE

CAMPS Disease and malnutrition Over crowding Lack of water, food and medical attention Orphans Attacks

Limited access for aid organizations

Lack of education

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EFFORTS AT UNC

Dinner for Darfur Spotlight Sudan

Weekly VigilsLobbying days (call ins, letter campaigns, email power hours)

ADDITIONAL SOURCES http://genocideinterventionfund.org http://stand.org http://www.savedarfur.org/ Holocaust museum – http://ushmm.org http://www.unc.edu/sudan http://www.darfurgenocide.org/ http://www.unwatch.org http://hrw.org/ http://africaaction.org/index.php http://allafrica.org/ http://witness.org/ http://darfurinfo.org/

YOU DO THE MATH5 AM, a typical day begins in a refugee camp. Women must leave the

camp to retrieve water, where they are often brutally attacked, whipped, and raped. Men do not go because they would be killed. Sometimes, it is the children who must go.110 DEGREES is the typical daytime temperature in the shade-less camps200,000 REFUGEES currently living in camps30 NEW refugees enter each camp every day1,000 NEW refugees enter each camp per month½ of the CHILDREN in the camps have no access to any education3,500,000 HUNGRY people due to the Darfur conflict2,500,000 CITIZENS displaced from their homes, villages torched by the

Sudanese military and Janjaweed20,000 INHABITANTS per refugee camp300,000 MORE predicted by USAID to die from lack of food, the death toll of

children due to malnutrition is especially predicted to increase 432,329 DISPLACED in West Darfur320,906 DISPLACED in North Darfur233,138 DISPLACED in South Darfur. The rest are in Chad.10,000 DEATHS per month70,000 DEATHS from disease and hunger alone, once refugees are in a camp400,000 DEAD, and counting, from the Darfur conflict

(there are 27,000 students at UNC. Multiply our campus by 15)__+__________________________________________________________________________WE STOPPED ADDING. Any number beyond 0 is a number too many.

A FINAL WORD AND WHY WE SHOULD CARE

“The bottom line is that genocide is the worst thing that humans can do to each other. It tears at the fabric of humanity. And the only way that we here, in the US, can assert our own humanity is to stand up to genocide, even a distant one. To look the other way as babies are tossed onto bonfires, because of their skin color and tribe, is an abdication of our own citizenship in our species.”

-Nicholas Kristof: A Response on Darfur

Ashley Kroetsch, southeast@standnow.org   http://standnow.org/chapter

Picture on slide 3, bottom left-http://www.thewe.cc/thewei/&/images3/darfur/village_burnt_4.jpe

Slide 3, top right-http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/40427000/jpg/_40427803_refugee203bodyap.jpg

Slide 7, bottom right- http://www.mchekc.org/Assets/pictures/darfur.jpg Slide 7, bottom left- http://caxton.stockton.edu/STAND/Crisis Slide 7, top right-

http://www.theepochtimes.com/news_images/2004-7-28-28-darfur-refugees.jpg Slide 8, top left- collage from

http://www.ushmm.org/conscience/alert/darfur/steidle/ Slide 8, top middle-

http://www.sudan.net/graphic/news/conflict/darfur/chad_sudan_refugees_malnourished.jpg

Slide 8, top right- http://www1.ushmm.org/conscience/alert/darfur/steidle/photos/08.jpg

Slide 8, bottom left- http://www.alertnet.org/thefacts/imagerepository/TDchildrencamp238.jpg

Slide 8, Middle on left side- http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.satyamag.com/sat.site.images/darfor_nov04.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.satyamag.com/nov04/flint.html&h=263&w=360&sz=31&hl=en&sig2=1BYuzEZfAq8tppuJ_ZKSEg&start=104&tbnid=lLYcV9do1H2I9M:&tbnh=88&tbnw=121&ei=ILI9RbaYG7_y6QGW5PmIAQ&prev=/images%3Fq%3Ddarfur%2Brefugees%26start%3D100%26ndsp%3D20%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26sa%3DN

Slide 8, 4 pictures bottom right- http://www.brendoman.com/media/Darfur.jpg Slide 8, bottom middle-

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/06/photogalleries/darfur/images/primary/darfur6_gallery.jpg