Sunday, October 15, 2006

Saving Darfur


ROCKPORT:
Amnesty International and the Fur Cultural Revival will present Saving Darfur on Saturday, Oct. 21, at 7 p.m., at Camden Hills Regional High School. The Fur Cultural Revival is a Portland-based organization of refugees from the Darfur region of western Sudan. Saving Darfur will include drumming, a short talk, and a 20 – minute documentary, as well as recommended actions the public can take in concert with Amnesty International's campaign to get U.N. peacekeepers on the ground in Darfur.

Darfur is the location of one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world today. Hundreds of thousands of people are believed to have lost their lives since the Darfur conflict erupted in February 2003. Systematic human rights abuses have occurred, including killing, torture, rape, looting, and the destruction of property by all parties involved. Read more >>>

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