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379:"We stand together and unite our voices to raise public awareness and mobilize a massive response to the atrocities in Sudan's western region of Darfur. Responding to a rebellion in 2003, the regime of Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir and its allied militia, known as the Janjaweed, launched a campaign of destruction against the civilian population of ethnic groups identified with the rebels. They wiped out entire villages, destroyed food and water supplies, stole livestock, and systematically murdered, tortured, and raped civilians. The Sudanese government's genocidal, scorched earth campaign has claimed hundreds of thousands of lives through direct violence, disease, and starvation, and continues to destabilize the region. Millions have fled their homes and live in dangerous camps in Darfur, and hundreds of thousands are refugees in neighboring Chad. Violence continues today. Ultimately, the fate of the Darfuri people depends on establishing lasting and just peace in all of Sudan and in the region." 614:, former Marine Captain and observer to the African Union peacekeeping forces stationed in the Darfur region, toured the United States in 2006 to be the voice for the voiceless in Darfur. Through words and pictures, he expressed the importance of addressing the security and humanitarian needs in Darfur and guided Americans on how to become involved. The tour covered 21,000 miles and 20 different locations. It continued to promote the messages of other campaigns of the Save Darfur Coalition, such as the Million Voices for Darfur and the Save Darfur: Rally to Stop Genocide. 77: 229: 179: 36: 647:
was chaired by Wole Soyinka, the Nobel Prize winning Nigerian writer. The prosecutor was Beth Van Schaack, who later became United States Ambassador-at-Large for Global Criminal Justice. The defense counsel was a distinguished Canadian law professor. The panel of judges convicted al-Bashir of crimes against humanity and genocide.
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Genocide Watch was the first human rights organization to recognize the crimes in Darfur as genocide in April 1994. Genocide Watch concentrated its efforts on justice. It sponsored a hearing on the crimes of Omar al-Bashir at the Church Center for the United Nations looking out on the UN. The hearing
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The coalition grew into an alliance of more than 180 religious, political, and human rights organizations committed to ending the alleged genocide in Darfur. Save Darfur was headquartered in Washington, D.C., with a staff of 30 professional organizers, policy advisors, and communications specialists.
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On January 22, 2006, the 55th anniversary of the ratification of the U.N.'s Convention on Genocide, the Save Darfur Coalition launched the campaign, Million Voices for Darfur, which involved the collation of uniformly worded postcards from citizen advocates across the country. The postcards insisted
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to refer the situation in Darfur to the International Criminal Court. The resolution passed 13-0-2. The resolution included language that allowed China and the USA to abstain. It was the first referral by the Security Council to the ICC and resulted in convictions of two persons for crimes against
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and the Save Darfur Coalition merged to establish United to End Genocide. The merger created the largest anti-genocide campaign that encompasses a membership base of over 800,000 global activists, a mass student movement, and a network of institutional investors with over $ 700 billion in assets.
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and their respective representatives have acknowledged problems in Darfur. DarfurScores.org made affairs in Darfur more transparent and was the model for scorecards for several other countries. The objective of the initiative was to hold representatives accountable, and to sufficiently inform
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On April 30, 2006, the Save Darfur Coalition organized the "Save Darfur: Rally to Stop Genocide" to occur on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., and encouraged other national communities to hold rallies of their own. Over 50,000 people gathered among prominent speakers, such as
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In order to exert financial pressure on the government of Sudan to change its policies, Save Darfur launched a divestment campaign, Divest for Darfur. The campaign was similar to Genocide Intervention Network’s divestment project, The Sudan Divestment Task Force.
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Divest for Darfur focused on using print and broadcast advertisements to target the "highest offending" companies that conducted business in Sudan, such as Fidelity Investments and Berkshire-Hathaway. Both companies heavily invested in
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1-800-GENOCIDE was a toll-free number that allowed individuals to voice their concerns about genocides and mass atrocities to their elected public officials. As of February 2013, over 25,000 calls had been made.
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Through its initiatives, the Olympic Dream for Darfur campaign sought to bring global attention to the crisis in Darfur and advocate for a reconsideration of international policies concerning the region.
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The Million Voices program was the first example of the Save Darfur Coalition's attempt to influence the executive branch of the U.S. government to enact change.
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that attempted "to raise public awareness and mobilize a massive response to the atrocities in Sudan's western region of Darfur." Headquartered in
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The Save Darfur Coalition was founded at the "Darfur Emergency Summit in New York City" on July 14, 2004. The Coalition began when the
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In 2011, in order to create a more effective and collective voice dedicated to preventing and eliminating genocidal violence, the
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In September 2007, a U.S.-based relay was launched, led by Jill Savitt and Mia Farrow, and supported by organizations like
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organized this event at the CUNY Graduate Center in Manhattan featuring Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize-winner
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Genocide Watch then worked with Nick Rostow, the legal advisor to the US Mission to the United Nations to draft
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The Save Darfur Coalition had over 190 national and regional organizational supporters including
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DarfurScores.org was a unique scorecard grading system that allowed individuals to learn how the
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that President Bush support "a stronger multinational force to protect the civilians of Darfur."
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constituents in order to apply more pressure on government officials to instigate change.
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as the student-led division of United to End Genocide. STAND opposes violence in
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humanity in Darfur, as well as ICC charges of genocide against Omar al-Bashir.
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The coalition's members initially signed on to the following unity statement:
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The Dream for Darfur team urged major Olympic Games sponsors, such as
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On June 29, 2006, just six months after the start of the campaign,
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Not on Our Watch: The Mission to End Genocide in Darfur and Beyond
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organized to campaign for a response to the atrocities of the
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Divest for Darfur’s broadcast advertisements aired on
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to pass the Sudan Accountability and Divestment Act.
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