Six diverse people striving to end the suffering in war-ravaged Darfur are followed in this documentary, demonstrating the power of individuals to influence social change.
Six diverse people striving to end the suffering in war-ravaged Darfur are followed in this documentary, demonstrating the power of individuals to influence social change.
This is a documentary composed of two films that provide first-hand accounts of the situation in Darfur and in the Darfuri refugee camps in eastern Chad.
Children from Darfur in a temporary school at a refugee site in Sam Ouandja, Central African Republic
Journalist Nicholas Kristof addresses the question, “Why should we pay attention to the rest of the world?”
Samantha Power discusses how students can help in stopping human rights violations.
From the film "The Reckoning" , International prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo tells the story of the 2005 International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecution of war crimes in Darfur.
Read an editorial by New York Times columnist Nick Kristof.
Actor Don Cheadle (Hotel Rwanda) shares the experience of his first trip to Chad to visit with refugees from Darfur. The hope and optimism of the people he met became his inspiration for getting more involved in helping to end the crisis.
Ethnic groups living in Darfur, a territory in the southwest region of Sudan, have competed for essential resources (e.g., land and water) for centuries. These primarily agrarian tribes felt marginalized by the central government in Khartoum, especially since the military coup in 1989.
The killing of Cecil the Lion on July 1st attracted both heavy news coverage and a flurry of responses on social media. An interesting thread emerged from these responses: questions about how people can become so outraged over the death of a lion on the other side of the world, when there are larger scale, or more local, stories of individuals and groups of people suffering unspeakable violence and injustice. The underlying theme that unites many of these confrontations is “Which story about tragedy or injustice is more worthy of our attention?”
In this powerful call to action, Oscar-nominated film star Don Cheadle and human rights advocate John Prendergast shine an unsparing spotlight on the genocide in Darfur.
This 2005 film is a reflection by a group of students on the situation in Darfur.