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Take the lead in your community or on your campus for calling for an end to the violence in Darfur!
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The specter of renewed massacres and rape in
Darfur portends a humanitarian catastrophe.
UN officials estimate that the lives of four million people may be at risk from the depredations of a regime that is already responsible for the deaths of more than 400,000 people in Darfur by conservative estimates. http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/editorials/articles/2006/09/09/desolating_darfur/ 
Source: © Claire Mc Evoy/IRIN
Severely malnourished girl in a
Doctors Without Borders feeding
clinic in al-Junaynah, Western
Darfur. Experts predict Darfur death
toll will rise.
The Death Toll in DarfurSince the conflict began in 2003, an estimated 350,000 Darfurians have died, most due to starvation. Experts warn that number is likely to increase, however, and the UN World Food Program has cut aid to Darfur by half, citing funding shortages (Boston Globe). Next: Darfur Refugee Crisis |
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Dear Concerned People... For many Americans, the crisis in Darfur seems like an ocean away. But for people like you and me, the atrocities in Darfur are at the forefront of our minds. We have an amazing opportunity to invigorate our work on Darfur. Amnesty is implementing a grant to set up advanced global mapping systems to support humanitarian efforts and apply pressure to human rights abusers in Sudan. But using the technology to combat this crisis requires more financial support. Please respond today. Governments and militaries employ expensive technologies to provide early warning systems for potential conflicts and to inform decision makers. Now, we have an opportunity to use these technologies to promote human rights. As you know, the conflict in Darfur has harbored some of the worst human rights abuses imaginable, including systematic and wide-scale forced displacement, rape, and murder. With your help, we can combat these abuses using cutting-edge technology to counter international and government inaction with compelling satellite images of the ravaged region and its people. High resolution satellite imagery can detect many signs of real time or emerging conflict, such as burned villages, mass refugee displacement, the destruction of crops and infrastructure, and in some instances, human corpses or livestock carcasses. This technology will assist in accessing insecure areas, verifying activities officially denied by governments, raising public awareness, and pressuring governments into action. In response to the humanitarian catastrophe that continues to unfold in Darfur, Amnesty is responding on all fronts. In addition to applying emerging technologies, we are mobilizing activists to take meaningful action in support of the people of Darfur, sending researchers to investigate reports of war crimes and crimes against humanity, and providing on-the-ground support for refugees in Chad. You can help support our critical work. The situation in Darfur is grave. People like you and me must do everything we can to end the violence. I urge you to support Amnesty's work. And with your support today, we can seize the opportunity to apply cutting-edge technologies to our work defending human rights in Darfur and around the world. Thank you.
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