Darfur Action Campaign
China: No More Arms to Sudan!
Join AJWS and partners in nationwide protests on September 24, 2008 to highlight China’s continued sale of arms to Sudan and call for an expanded U.N. arms embargo to stop the flow of arms to the government in Khartoum.
High Holiday Resources
Factual:- Darfur Background and Talking Points
- AJWS Brief: Ending Arms Sales to Sudan
- Fact Sheet on China’s arm sales to Sudan
- “Save Darfur” by Ruth Messinger
- “Sounding the Alarm: Darfur, Elul and the Election” by Rabbi Or Rose
- 2005 Yom Kippur Sermon by Rabbi Richard Jacobs
- 2006 Save Darfur Rally Prayer by Rabbi J. Rolando Matalon
As the violence and devastation continues, Darfur must remain a priority on the U.S. agenda and within the international community. This fall, AJWS is focusing on the continued flow of weapons into Darfur in violation of a U.N. arms embargo.
As the Olympic spotlight fades, AJWS is working to keep the pressure on China—a key supplier of small arms to Sudan—to suspend arms transfers and leverage its unique relationship with Khartoum to end the violence. AJWS is simultaneously intensifying pressure on Congress, the Bush administration and other key stakeholders to address the critical issue of arms flow to Sudan through an expanded U.N. arms embargo.
We will continue to press the presidential candidates to speak out and ensure that Darfur is a priority from Day One of the next administration.
Actions You Can Take Now for Darfur
Support Peacekeeping in Darfur
It has been over a year since the U.N. Security Council authorized the deployment of a U.N.-African Union peacekeeping mission to Darfur, but the mission has less than 10,000 of the authorized 26,000 peacekeepers and remains grossly under-funded and under-resourced.
Divest Yourself
AJWS is part of a national campaign encouraging mutual fund companies to make investments genocide-free. You can help by examining your personal investments, urging major financial institutions to divest from problematic companies or, if you have investments with Fidelity, by voting with your proxy ballot at the upcoming May 14 shareholder meeting.
Take Action: Send a message to mutual fund companies today
Background on the Crisis
Since 2003, the government of Sudan and their proxy militia, the Janjaweed, have been conducting a counter-insurgency operation against rebel groups in Darfur. Their primary strategy is a scorched earth campaign targeting communities that share the same ethnicity as the rebels. Government forces and Janjaweed continue to terrorize and kill civilians, rape women and girls, burn villages, and drive innocent people from their homes. More than two million people have been displaced and at least 450,000 have lost their lives to this genocidal campaign.
Since 2004, AJWS has been providing humanitarian aid while simultaneously engaging in U.S.-based education and advocacy to end the crisis.
The people of Darfur need protection now.
Send a letter to U.S. leaders and the U.N. Secretary-General.
