An op-ed from our very own Justin Zorn, and an article with updates on additional troops to be deployed and NATO to play a part in the peace process.
Check them out! Plus, an event on challenges in the Congo TOMORROW if you are interested!

Peace,
GW STAND



Your action essential to end Darfur tragedy

Justin M. Zorn | Special to the Sentinel  February 19, 2006

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/opinion/orl-newvoices1906feb19,0,3950735.story


Bush Calls for More U.N. Aid in Darfur Crisis

 By Jim VandeHei and Colum Lynch Feb. 17

 To view the entire article, go to http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/17/AR2006021701935.html?referrer=emailarticle

Challenge in the Congo
Ending An Invisible Genocide
Monday, February 20th, 2006 - 6:45-8:45 pm
1112 16th St. NW, Suite 600, Wash. DC
(Between L and M Streets)

While social justice organizations shine the spotlight on Darfur, the intensified violence that has plagued the Congo since 1998, has gone largely unmentioned.  Since that year, the death toll in the Congo has reached 31,000 per month with approximately 4.7 million people killed and at least 40,000 women and girls raped.  As if that isn't enough, 800,000 children are AIDS orphans and 2.25 million people have been displaced.  Even in the midst of this turmoil courageous and truly empowering efforts are being waged which must not only be respected but also highlighted and supported

Join SALSA, the African Women Council, Inc., and Friends of the Congo for a public multi-media education and information session on the Challenge in the Congo.  This session will discuss the wars in Africa in general and the Great Lakes Region in particular.  Come and view video footage about: the difficulties in establishing peace and ending violence against women and children; the role of women in the recent referendum on the Congolese constitution and the upcoming elections; and what you can do to work with Congolese women who are extricating themselves and their families from poverty, war and deprivation.

 

Presenters:
Marie-Rose Sirikari, founder & president, African Women Council, Inc.
Maurice Carney, co-founder, Friends of the Congo

 

This event is FREE and open to the public but because space is very limited please RSVP here!   A $5.00 donation to support the work of the African Women's Council, Inc. is suggested but no one will be turned away for lack of funds.