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Status Update: Congress, Gration, and the Genocide Determination

It’s been five years since Congress’ first official declaration of genocide in Darfur. More than 1700 days since this determination, the people of Western Sudan are still waiting.

Waiting for adequate protection from the Sudanese military and the Janjaweed militias. Waiting for justice and reconstruction after losing their families and homes. Waiting for a real chance to rebuild their lives. (Read more…)

Urge President Obama to Make Darfur a Priority

More than 150 days into his administration, President Obama has yet to present a strong plan to secure peace and end violence in Sudan, even though he promised “immediate steps” to stop the genocide in Darfur during his presidential campaign.

Welcome to our new website.

About two months after going live with a new site, we’ve decided to iterate again after much feedback and constructive criticism.

We hope you like our new design. We’ll be adding things here and there over the next few days, so stay tuned. If you want to access our old blog archives, just use the sidebar to your right.

Is this how they’re going to respond to genocide?

“We need to get into sprint mode.” – General Scott Gration, U.S. Special Envoy to Sudan, June 2009 Sudan Special Envoy Scott Gration’s recent characterization of genocide in Darfur as “the remnants of genocide” is at deep odds with both President Obama and Susan Rice’s recent affirmations that genocide is indeed ongoing in Western Sudan. [...]

Today is World Refugee Day

We received this email from Carolyn of the i-ACT team today: Today I’m at the operations center for an amazing live event. This morning, the i-ACT team is broadcasting LIVE from Camp Djabal in Chad for World Refugee Day Live, a day-long video event that’s connecting many refugee camps and UNHCR offices around the world. [...]

Take part in i-ACT

Our friends over at Stop Genocide Now are back in Chad. They write: “Beginning on June 15th (today), i-ACT (interactive activism) will connect you with Darfur refugees through the web for ten consecutive days. Each day delve deeper into the lives of this community by watching videos, viewing photos, reading and commenting on blog posts [...]

Waking up

In a post about recent developments in southern Sudan, Maggie Fick at ENOUGH writes: “…it is crucial for the international community to understand Sudan’s interlocking crises as symptoms of one major problem: a predatory central government that is very skilled at creating and managing multiple assaults on its peripheral populations and then creating other distractions [...]

A small (but definite) reason to hope

The analytics for this website provide some reason to hope. This year, of the top 20 web searches (via Google, etc.) that generated clickthroughs to OurPledge.org, there are three especially eye-catching ones: – 4th most popular search term: “darfur genocide 2009″ – 12th most popular: “genocide in darfur 2009″ – 17th most popular: “darfur 2009″ [...]