Resources on Genocide and the Crisis in Darfur, Sudan
Tennesseans Against Genocide
www.tennesseansagainstgenocide.org
Anti-Genocide and Monitoring Groups
Committee on Conscience (http://www.ushmm.org/conscience): The Committee on Conscience works to prevent genocide by identifying genocidal situations as they emerge and educating and mobilizing people to take action to stop them. It is based at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. The website provides a great deal of information on recent and ongoing cases of atrocity and genocide, including Darfur.
ENOUGH: The Project to End Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity (http://www.enoughproject.org/): A project of the Center for American Progress, ENOUGH provides up-to-date reports and analysis focusing on ending genocide and atrocities in Sudan, Chad, Uganda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Somalia, and Zimbabwe.
The Genocide Intervention Network
(http://www.genocideintervention.net/): Established in 2005 to respond to the genocide in Darfur, the Genocide Intervention Network aims to mobilize a permanent anti-genocide constituency to stop the world’s worst cases of atrocity and genocide. The organization currently has eight areas of concern: Sudan, Burma, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Iraq, and Somalia.
Genocide Watch (http://www.genocidewatch.org/): Genocide Watch is the founder (in 1999) of the International Campaign to End Genocide. This site contains a variety of documents on genocide, politicide, and mass murder worldwide. Many of the articles are by Genocide Watch director Gregory Stanton.
Institute for the Study of Genocide/International Association of Genocide Scholars (http://www.instituteforthestudyofgenocide.org/): The Institute for the Study of Genocide was formed in New York in 1982 to promote and disseminate scholarship and policy analyses on the causes, consequences, and prevention of genocide. The International Association of Genocide Scholars is an autonomous affiliate of the ISG that promotes research and teaching about genocide.
International Crisis Group (http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm): The International Crisis Group is an independent, non-profit, non-governmental organization working through field-based analysis and high-level advocacy to prevent and resolve deadly conflict in Darfur and many other places around the world.
Prevent Genocide International (http://www.preventgenocide.org/): Prevent Genocide International, established in 1998, is a global education and action network for the prevention of genocide and crimes against humanity. Their website contains a great deal of information on human rights law, genocide prevention measures, and domestic and international prosecution of genocide crimes. Darfur is featured, although the website does not seem to have been updated since 2008.
STAND – A Student Anti-Genocide Coalition (http://www.standnow.org): Originally known as “Students Taking Action Now: Darfur,” STAND is a student organization working to stop the genocide and address the humanitarian crisis in Darfur, Sudan, by raising awareness about the situation in Darfur, pushing for political action, and raising funds to provide humanitarian assistance. The National STAND Coalition was founded in the fall of 2005, has about 600 chapters nationwide, and is now the official student auxiliary of the Genocide Intervention Network. The website is an excellent resource for activists and organizers.
Advocacy and Grassroots Groups Focusing on Sudan and Darfur
Save Darfur Coalition (http://www.savedarfur.org): The Save Darfur Coalition is an alliance of over 160 diverse faith-based, humanitarian, and human rights organizations, assembled to raise public awareness and to mobilize efforts to help end the atrocities and reduce the suffering in Darfur and nearby refugee camps. One may make tax-deductible donations here to support public education on the Darfur crisis.
Stop Genocide Now (http://www.stopgenocidenow.org): StopGenocideNow.org is small grassroots community working to protect populations in grave danger of violence, death, and displacement resulting from genocide. The organization’s activists focus on the genocide in Darfur and have made numerous trips to Chad to document the impact of genocide on refugees from Darfur.
24 Hours for Darfur (http://www.24hoursfordarfur.org/main.php): This global video advocacy began in 2007 by collecting hundreds of 30-60 second video appeals for Darfur by ordinary world citizens, which were compiled into a video montage shown at a rally before the UN on September 16, 2007 at the United Nations and other locations. They continue to collect and post videos of commentary and appeals on the Darfur situation by experts, celebrities, Darfurians, and concerned world citizens.
Massachusetts Coalition to Save Darfur
(http://www.savedarfurma.org): See one prominent state-wide organization is doing about Darfur.
mtvU (http://www.mtvu.com/on_mtvu/activism/sudan.jhtml): The website of the MTV Networks on Campus (a spinoff of MTV television) has an activism section with some useful links and activism ideas about Darfur.
Humanitarian Aid NGOs Active with Darfur Refugees
The International Rescue Committee (http://www.theirc.org): Founded in 1933, the IRC is a world leader in relief, rehabilitation, protection, post-conflict development, resettlement services and advocacy for those uprooted or affected by violent conflict and oppression. The IRC delivers lifesaving aid in emergencies and rebuilds shattered communities. The Sudanese government expelled the IRC and twelve other international aid organizations from Darfur in March 2009, but they continue to provide assistance to 58,000 Darfuri refugees at two camps in Chad.
Oxfam America (http://www.oxfamamerica.org/emergencies/conflict-in-darfur): One of the few NGOs to remain in Darfur after the March 2009 expulsion of aid organizations, Oxfam International (established 1942) and its US affiliate Oxfam America (formed in 1970) are currently providing critical humanitarian aid to over 200,000 people in Darfur.
Selected On-line Videos about Darfur
Darfur’s Smallest Witnesses (http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/africa/july-dec05/darfur_9-27.html): A segment from the PBS program News Hour with Jim Lehrer (aired Sept. 27, 2005) that displays drawings made by children who have survived the genocide. A slide show version is also available at this site.
Darfur: Five Years On (http://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/features/darfur/index.html): Short 2008 video from Human Rights Watch with commentary by Georgette Gagnon, Africa Division Director of HRW. Length 3:26.
On the Ground in Darfur (http://www.pbs.org/newshour/indepth_coverage/africa/darfur/ warner_audio_slideshow_flash.html): A slide show narrated by Margaret Warner of the PBS News Hour program about a trip to Dafur in early May 2006. Posted June 2, 2006. Length 7:32.
The Victims of Darfur (http://www.amnestyusa.org/countries/sudan/flash.html): Produced by Amnesty International. There is no date but it uses the old figures of 70,000 dead (now up to 450,000 or many more). It ends with an appeal for donations to Amnesty International.
Selected Photographs and Maps from Darfur
Darfur Drawn: The Conflict in Darfur Through Children’s Eyes (http://www.hrw.org/legacy/photos/2005/darfur/drawings/introduction.htm): An extraordinary collection of sixteen color drawings by child survivors of the genocide posted by Human Rights Watch.
Map of Darfur, Sudan, and the Region (http://www.pbs.org/newshour/indepth_coverage/africa/darfur/map.html): Useful color map posted by PBS.
Photographs: A Human Rights Catastrophe (http://www.hrw.org/phot.os/2005/darfur/02/): Eight color photographs from 2005 posted by Human Rights Watch
Photographs: Darfur in Flames (http://www.hrw.org/photos/2004/darfur1/index1.htm): Fifteen black and white photographs from October 2004 posted by Human Rights Watch.
Rape as a Weapon of War in Darfur (http://physiciansforhumanrights.org/sudan/rape/slide-show/index.html): Eight color photos accompany a description of this awful aspect of the conflict.
USAID Photo Gallery on Sudan (http://www.usaid.gov/locations/sub-saharan_africa/sudan/images/): This site includes seven different galleries of photographs on Sudan and Darfur.
The Art of War: Children’s Drawings of Illustrate Darfur Atrocities (http://www.slate.com/id/2122730/). A short article by Dr. Annie Sparrow and Olivier Bercault, July 14, 2005.
General Human Rights and Civil Rights Organizations
Africa Action (http://www.africaaction.org/index.php): Africa Action is engaged in advocacy and activism on several African issues, including stopping the genocide in Darfur, Sudan. One may make a tax-deductible contribution to support Africa Action’s advocacy programs on Africa.
American Anti-Slavery Group (http://www.iabolish.org/): This organization has been active on ending slavery in Sudan and other places since 1994. Many of their current actions deal with Darfur.
American Jewish World Service (http://ajws.org/emergencies/darfur/): American Jewish World Service (AJWS) is an international development organization working alleviating poverty, hunger and disease among the people of the developing world regardless of race, religion or nationality. AJWS has an active Darfur Action Campaign.
Amnesty International (http://www.amnesty.org/ and http://www.amnestyusa.org/): One of the most well-known human rights movements, Amnesty has active campaigns on Sudan and in particular on the Darfur crisis (see http://darfur.amnestyusa.org). Information on Sudan and Amnesty’s work may be found at the London AI headquarters (http://www.amnesty.org/en/region/sudan) and at the U.S. branch (http://www.amnestyusa.org/all-countries/sudan/page.do?id=1011244).
Anti-Defamation League (http://www.adl.org/sudan/): The famous Jewish civil rights organization has an on-line resource center on Darfur and Sudan.
Human Rights Watch (http://www.hrw.org/en/africa/sudan): One of the country’s foremost human rights watchdog organizations has collected extensive documentation about the Darfur genocide on their website.
Physicians for Human Rights (http://physiciansforhumanrights.org/sudan/): The Nobel-prize winning organization was founded in Boston in 1986 to promote health through the protection of human rights. A top focus right now is their Darfur Survival Campaign.
United Nations and Governmental Sources on Genocide Issues and Darfur
Sudan Information Gateway: United Nations System in the Sudan (http://www.unsudanig.org/): The official website of the UN effort in Sudan contains many reports and policy papers about the situation in Darfur and Sudan.
United Nations (http://www.un.org): Main website of the international body.
United Nations Security Council (http://www.un.org/Docs/sc/): Main website of the Security Councul. The complete archive of agenda matters, actions, and statements is found at (http://www.un.org/Depts/dhl/resguide/scact.htm)
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (http://www.ohchr.org/english/): This site has extensive materials, including the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, found at http://www.unhchr.ch/udhr/lang/eng.htm.
World Health Organization (http://www.who.int/hhr/en/): A site on Health and Human Rights.
International Court of Justice (http://www.icj-cij.org/): The ICJ adjudicates a wide variety of conflicts between national governments, including conflicts arising from alleged state-sponsored violations of human rights. In a rare application the Genocide Convention, both Bosnia and Croatia have sued Yugoslavia in the ICJ for complicity in genocide.
International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (www.icty.org/): Established 25 May 1993, the ICTY is trying dozens of individuals accused of genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity during the civil wars in the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s.
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (http://www.ictr.org/): Established 8 November 1994, the ICTR is currently trying dozens of leaders of the genocide in Rwanda in 1994.
International Criminal Court (http://www.icc-cpi.int/): Operating since 2002, this body will try individuals accused of genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity in current and future conflicts. The Security Council referred the case of Darfur to the jurisdiction of the ICC in March 2005. Warrants for arrest of Sudanese officials in this case were first issued in May 2007. The warrant for the arrest of President Omar al-Bashir of Sudan was issued in March 2009.
US State Department, Office of War Crimes Issues
http://www.state.gov/www/global/swci/index.html (before 2001)
http://www.state.gov/s/wci/ (since 2001)
US State Dept., Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor
http://www.state.gov/www/global/human_rights/index.html (before 2001)
http://www.state.gov/g/drl/ (since 2001)
Sudanese Embassy in the United States (http://sudanembassy.org/): Unlike the other websites on this list, the Sudanese Embassy site is dedicated to defending the policies of the Sudan government in all cases. It means to challenge the world-wide consensus that the Sudan government actions in Darfur constitute genocide.
News and Information Sources
BBC News (http://news.bbc.co.uk): Search “Darfur” for the latest information on the genocide, from one of the world’s more reliable news sources.
PBS Online News Hour: Darfur (http://www.pbs.org/newshour/search_results.html?q=darfur): The respected news program has posted several dozen articles, editorials, and TV features on Darfur and Sudan dating back to 1996.
Sudan: The Passion of the Present (http://platform.blogs.com/): This site contains a large number of articles on Sudan and Darfur collected from all over the web, with links to the original sources. It also has an excellent collection of links to other organizations working on Darfur.
Sudan Tribune (http://www.sudantribune.com/): The Sudan Tribune is an independent non-profit website based in France and dedicated to democratic and free debate on Sudan (not a mouthpiece of the Sudanese government). It provides comprehensive and balanced coverage of Sudan, gleaned from sources all over the web. All sources are in English.
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page): This community-based free on-line encyclopedia has many useful articles, including: “Sudan” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudan), “Darfur” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darfur) and “Darfur Conflict” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darfur_conflict). Reliability and accuracy is always an issue on Wikipedia, since anyone can register and edit the articles, but this can be a place to find additional links and to get a general idea of what is going on.
Last updated 20 April 2010
