Use AJWS' advocacy materials to educate your community and move them to action.
List to Ruth W. Messinger speak on a conference call from April 16, 2008 about the situation in Darfur in light of renewed attacks on villages and aid workers and a worsening public health crisis in the internally displaced persons (IDP) and refugee camps. Ruth also discusses national advocacy initiatives, including an effort to take the Chinese government to task for its economic and military support of the Sudanese regime.
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Latest Reports:
- Investing in Tragedy: China's Money, Arms, and Politics in Sudan
Human Rights First documents China's role as the largest known supplier of small arms, small arms parts, and ammunition to Sudan – the kind of weapons used to commit the atrocities in Darfur.
- Darfur: Time to Uphold the Arms Embargo
Refugees International outlines the steps the U.S. Government should take in order to ensure that international law and the United Nations Arms Embargo against Sudan are enforced, and that sufficient steps are taken to protect the people of Darfur against attacks with illegal arms.
- R2P, the ICC, and Stopping Atrocities in the Real World
The ENOUGH Project explores how the Responsibility to Protect and International Criminal Court translate from documents on paper to actions in the real world, and their effects in Uganda, Congo and Sudan.
- Sudan's Comprehensive Peace Agreement: Beyond the Crisis
As the Sudan People's Liberation Movement and the National Congress Party struggle to implement South Sudan's fragile Comprehensive Peace Agreement, the International Crisis Group explores the background behind the parties' distrust and the urgent actions needed to reach a stable peace in Sudan.
- Genocide in Slow Motion: How Darfur's Refugees Are Dying a Protracted Death
A delegation of U.S. advocates—including AJWS President Ruth Messinger, UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Mia Farrow and Jill Savitt, the director of Dream for Darfur—traveled to eastern Chad in August 2007 to launch a global advocacy campaign and meet with Darfuri refugees and Chadians displaced by the conflict. The mission also traveled to Rwanda to discuss the healing and reunification process with survivors of the 1994 genocide. This report contains their observations from Africa.
Order multi-media resources:
- AJWS B'nai Mitzvah CD-ROM, includes background information, mitzvah project ideas, a sample PowerPoint presentation, prayers and reading to incorporate into a service, and ways to take action. To order, e-mail your request and mailing address to darfur@ajws.org.
- AJWS "Crisis in Darfur" CD-ROM, includes a PowerPoint presentation with photos by Ruth Messinger, two short documentary films, and links to informative Web sites and advocacy tools. To order send an e-mail to darfur@ajws.org.
Buy wristbands and yarmulkes:
- Order green Darfur wristbands.
- Order a "Save Darfur" yarmulke from the Mason-Dixon Darfur Alliance. Of the proceeds, 25% go to AJWS' Sudan Relief and Advocacy Fund.
Books
Never Again, Again, Again...
Genocide: Armenia, The Holocaust, Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Darfur
by Lane Montgomery
Ruder Finn Press
Featuring the essay "Darfur has been referred to as Rwanda in slow motion..." by AJWS President Ruth Messinger.
