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Afflicting the Comfortable, Comforting the Afflicted

Wednesday, December 9th, 2009

O16 Days Photos - Britney Blogf course you know about the most recent developments in Sudan, because you follow the work of organizations such as the Save Darfur Coalition.  It is entirely expected that an organization dedicated to the issues in Darfur would be on top of the latest news, especially in regard to violence against Sudanese women.  But why is this very important issue so often under the radar of the major media outlets?  As an undergraduate journalism student, I was always told by my professors that the whole point of journalism is to “afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted.”  When the truth is not confronting you from your television, you have a tendency to think that it is no longer an issue.  Nothing could be further from the truth.

That is why today, Day 15 of the 16 Days, we honor NBC journalist Ann Curry for her in-depth reporting at the forefront of this issue.  She focuses on individual stories of the women caught in the conflict, giving a human face to the survivors and a voice to those who are often silenced.  In this way, Ann Curry embodies the journalistic tradition I was taught—she comforts the afflicted women by empowering them and sharing their stories, and afflicts those of us living comfortably by showing us the costs of our ignorance or perhaps our inadvertent compliance.

To observe the 15th day of this campaign, I am writing to Dateline NBC to ask the producers to continue this excellent journalism by running a special on violence against women in Sudan.  While our televisions are awash with other things, is it important for us to not let the suffering of the women in Darfur be forgotten.  The only time the major networks should fail to run these stories is when they are no longer necessary—when violence against women ceases in Darfur.  That is why I hope you will join me in writing to Dateline NBC (Dateline@nbcuni.com).  If enough of us show a determination to bring back the voices of those women in Darfur, we can tune in to an important issue instead of who is gaining weight in Hollywood.

Britney Schultz is a Communications Intern at the Save Darfur Coalition.

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A Tweet and Ring to My Congressman

Tuesday, December 8th, 2009

Today, marks the 14th day of the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence Campaign – a global movement to end gender-based violence. This day focuses on the humanitarian and civil society organizations working on the ground in Darfur and throughout Sudan. I took action today by calling my representative and encouraging him to make restoring peace in Sudan a priority. Congressman Jim Moran (D-VA) has been a prominent voice for the people of Darfur on Capitol Hill, but it is my responsibility as a constituent to consistently push for him to do more to end sexual violence in Sudan.

Jim_moran twitpic1Having spent my childhood in Nigeria, I remember my grandparent’s sharing their memories of the Nigerian Biafra War that claimed more than a million lives. The reason they told their story was not merely to fill the air with loose talk, but to teach us the role we ought to play in preventing future atrocities. There is no greater calling in life than to help your neighbor at their weakest or most vulnerable moment; and to fight great injustice no matter where it is. Now, with years of conflict and suffering in Darfur, I am once inspired by survivors’ stories – this time I am compelled to take action on behalf of those suffering in Sudan.

Today I reached out to just one of the leaders of this country with the power to help bring the Darfur genocide to an end. In my phone call and twitter message to Congressman Moran I asked him to lead efforts to restore unrestricted humanitarian access in Darfur and prioritize the return of services for survivors of gender based violence. I hope that you contact your representative and encourage them to be advocates for the people of Darfur and to end the violence against women.

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What We’re Fighting For

Monday, December 7th, 2009

Halima Bashir wideI have always loved the written word above all else – my earliest memory is being ridiculed on the school bus for furiously attempting to finish my latest chapter book. In my tormentor’s defense, I did live three blocks from our middle school. As I grew older, this love for writing and literature only intensified. So when I took our action for Day 13 – reading Halima Bashir’s Tears of the Desert – I was both excited and terrified. As part of the Save Darfur team that works to raise awareness and action around sexual violence, I was all too familiar with the horrors the book would hold. In discussing this issue, we often use clinical, colder terms – “gender-based violence,” “moment of assault,” “psychological implications.” In many circumstances, we as an activist community write our way around the truest and most difficult word – rape.

Stalin famously said that “one death is a tragedy, one million is a statistic.” Unfortunately, these words often ring true – not only in the international community’s reaction to mass killing, but in how we react to mass sexual violence. While statistics are hard to come by and those who were to collect them have been either expelled or intimidated by the Sudanese government, we know that thousands upon thousands of women in Darfur have been raped by governmental forces and the janjaweed militias. But this story of mass rape is actually a much more horrifying story – it is the story of a single rape, an unbearable experience that no one should have to suffer through, experienced thousands and thousands of times.  In many ways, it is harder to read or hear a single testimony than to write a paper about its prevalence. This understanding was at the core of my apprehension – to read is not only to know, but to embody an experience for a certain time. What euphemism and convention can obscure, the written word lays bare. This is the source of its power.

Tears of the Desert is, however, a majestically crafted memoir – one which I am a fuller person for reading. For the past four years, I have studied the history of genocide intently and for the past two I have been engaged in research on genocide memorialization, both formal and informal, in Rwanda. In a period of six weeks, I traveled to nearly every recognized memorial in the country – frequently traveling to four memorials, attending a remembrance ceremony and conducting several hours of survivor interviews in a single day. At that time, I realized that if I could not construct walls between myself and what I was studying, the reality of the situation would cripple me. At the same time, the reality is what spurs you to action. It is a strange and frequently uncomfortable tightrope to walk – between feeling and acting, between policy and testimony. And in the past year or so, in order to act and to write analytically, I constructed walls which became, at times, too large for me to see beyond. Tears of the Desert forced me to surrender this distance. The capacity for genuine compassion – literally “to feel with” in Latin – and to verbalize thought are the two elements that distinguish human beings from our animal counterparts. In many ways, this surrender was a kind of return to a deeper humanity – one which provokes pain, but also understanding, kindness, empathy and action. (more…)

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Walking the Halls of Congress

Saturday, December 5th, 2009

I was nervous.  Very nervous.  I was a college freshman in Washington D.C. and about to meet my hometown Congressman.  I had made the appointment weeks earlier — an “interview” with the Congressman was critical to a political science paper that was coming due all too soon.  In theory, the whole thing sounded easy.  But here I was, in the waiting area, 2,800 miles from home, waiting for one of the most powerful people in the Capitol.

When I arrived, I was warned he might not have much time for me — votes were on the horizon.  And all too soon, I was rushed into his inner sanctum and it was just the two of us.  I managed to gasp out a couple questions, taking notes as fast as I could; and then the bells rang.  The bells, of course, indicated that he had to go vote.  I immediately assumed that my time with the Congressman was up.  But after talking a few more minutes, he jumped out of his chair, said “come with me,” and we were on a fast-paced jaunt; me trying to keep up and ask questions all at the same time.  Upon reaching the Capitol, he deposited me, ran to vote, and came back to finish the interview.  I was genuinely astonished that he had taken so much time to talk to me and answer my questions.  Later, I wrote him a thank-you note; I received a handwritten notecard back saying he hoped I received a good grade on the paper “despite the interviewee.”  I was impressed, but still a little dumbfounded as to why he would spend so much effort on one 18-year old college student when he had over 600,000 constituents back home.

Little did I know then that the jittery encounter would not be my last with the Congressman.  I eventually spent the better part of six years working on foreign policy issues for him.  That experience in turn opened the opportunity to represent the Save Darfur Coalition before Congress.  But I’ve always felt fortunate I had that first experience of being on the other side — of being the constituent in the room — because it allows me to understand what many Darfur activists must feel when they go to meet their Congressional officials.

My subsequent time on the Hill enlightened me to why the Congressman chose to go out of his way that day — I was a constituent.  Although not wholly without reason, too many of the stories about Congress are about the supposedly immense access lobbyists have.  But in my experience, constituents are the ones who get first-class treatment by their Members of Congress.  Because people see their Congressional officials on TV, in parades, or speaking on the Floor of the House, they forget that the elected official actually works for them — but elected officials, the smart ones anyway, never forget that fact.

On Day 11 of the “16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence” I wanted to use my own experience to demonstrate the impact you can have by simply calling or visiting your Member of Congress.   Some people think I have the easiest job in Washington — I lobby against genocide, what could possibly be easier than that?  It’s true that there are no pro-genocide Members of Congress, that the pro-Bashir caucus is a mighty quiet one.  But what we at Save Darfur lobby against, and what we encourage Sudan activists to lobby against, is inaction and indifference in the face of genocide; in the face of gender-based violence.  And we need your help to do it.

Today’s highlighted Leaders Against Gender Violence are two Members of Congress who have taken it upon themselves to refuse to allow inaction and indifference in the face of gender based violence.  Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI) are two longstanding champions for Darfuris, and they jointly held a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on “Confronting Rape and other Forms of Violence Against Women in Conflict Zones: Spotlight DRC and Sudan,” earlier this year.  Save Darfur’s own Niemat Ahmadi, a Darfuri survivor, testified at the hearing at which the Senators present pressed for more State Department action in the wake of the horrible crimes that continue to be committed.

Support for ending the violence in genocide is strong in Congress.  But it can always be stronger.  So on this day, I ask you to consider contacting your Senators to urge them to make ending gender-based violence in Darfur a personal priority.  My fearful first encounter opened up a world of possibilities — imagine what yours might be able to do for the women of Darfur.

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Sudan: Women’s Groups Advocate for Rape Law Reform

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009

Cross posted from Refugees International’s blog.

Women’s groups in Khartoum are working together to push for reform of north Sudan’s criminal laws on rape and adultery. Despite all of the difficulties that they face, they are taking positive steps forward and using the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence to launch their campaign.

A new network of Sudanese women’s organizations calling itself “the section 149 alliance” has come together to advocate for reform of section 149 of north Sudan’s Penal Code. Section 149 is one of the huge problems that face northern Sudanese women, including Darfuri women, who want to report a rape. This section of the criminal code mixes up the offences of rape and adultery.

As Refugees International reported back in 2007, the criminal system in north Sudan makes it almost impossible to prosecute rape cases successfully. The crime of rape is difficult to prove in most criminal systems, but in north Sudan many judges require four adult male witnesses to testify that a rape took place. Such evidence is of course almost impossible to obtain. Sadly, reporting rape brings stigma onto survivors in almost all countries. But in north Sudan, women have even more to fear than the stigma. Sudanese women are scared to report rape because they could themselves be prosecuted for adultery if the rape prosecution fails. For an unmarried woman the punishment for adultery is 100 lashes; for a married woman the punishment is death by stoning. This is obviously an enormous disincentive for rape survivors to come forward.

So it is good news that women’s groups in Sudan are campaigning to change this system. They are pointing out to lawmakers in Sudan that the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement between north and south Sudan requires them to change their laws to bring them in line with international human rights. The current laws on rape and adultery in north Sudan are clearly in violation of international human rights laws. There are many Islamic religious scholars who have stated that Islamic law does not prevent reform of these rape and adultery laws. It is heartening to see that Sudanese women’s groups are standing up for the rights of rape survivors and calling on their politicians to reform these unjust

Melanie Teff is an Advocate with Refugees International.

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Know Your Stuff

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009

16 Days blog photoToday is the 9th day of the 16 Days campaign against gender-based violence.  In that spirit, this morning I sat down determined to do something I’ve put off for far too long: really inform myself about violence against women in Sudan.  Even though it’s not my focus at Save Darfur, of course I’m aware that gender-based violence (or GBV) is an ongoing, heart-wrenching problem and I’ve been outspoken on the need to address it.  But I have to admit that I’ve shied away from reading many of the reports of facts on the ground – perhaps because this issue is so haunting.

Reading and thinking deeply about this reality for Sudanese women is not easy, but it is incredibly important.  Workable solutions depend on a thorough understanding the problem with all its nuances; effective advocacy does as well.  As a person who cares about ending GBV and helping survivors, I have a responsibility to be well-versed in what precisely is happening and what can be done to stop it.

Violence against women gets a decent amount of media coverage, but too often the stories focus only on the problem and never get to how we can combat it.  Our job as advocates is to work for action.  The papers painstakingly written by organizations such as Refugees International (today’s 16 Days honoree) are not just horror stories.  By evaluating how past and current efforts to help have worked (or, rather, not), they point the way forward.  They break down this big, scary issue into the specific barriers to combating GBV and make concrete recommendations that we can rally around.

As activists, the single best thing we can do is be well-informed.  When we talk to friends, family, and strangers we want to be able to tell them more than just that GBV is happening in Sudan, we want to engage them and explain what specifically can be done.  So, today, I am taking time to read the reports.  Join me!

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Art as Activism

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009

Today marks the halfway point in our 16 Days campaign. On this day we have chosen to highlight the role of the creative community in educating and advocating for an end to genocide and violence against women. I’ve always considered myself to be a creative person and a dedicated activist. In college I put these two together for a project. I chose to combine painting, photographs I’d found and quotes from various world leaders to express my frustration at continuous pattern of genocide followed by declarations of “Never Again.” It proved to be a great and unique way to educate my classmates about this topic. 16 Days Photos - Rebecca Blog

Despite this, I hadn’t really thought about how others might be using art to raise awareness until I found out about a choreographer in Philadelphia, Rebecca Davis. Rebecca had sent Save Darfur information about a ballet she’d created about the genocide in Darfur. I was immediately interested. Dancing has always been one my greatest passions, I studied ballet for years, and even taught it in for a period of time. I knew that dance had often been used to make statements about social issues but had no idea anyone had done a piece on Darfur.

I was fortunate enough to be able to attend a performance of excerpts from Rebecca’s Ballet Darfur. I was extremely impressed with what I saw. Not only was she able to put together a beautiful, technically exceptional piece of dance, but was also able to depict issues such as sexual violence and genocide on stage in a way that was very emotionally moving for an audience. The best part was of the evening was getting to talk to audience and the dancers about how this work of art had inspired them to learn more about the genocide and its effects on communities, families and the women in the Darfur.

I am so happy to see Rebecca Davis being honored today for both her talents as an artist and an activist. I encourage everyone to follow her example today and use their individual talents to help educate and inspire those around them. If creating art isn’t your thing, you can still learn about and enjoy the creative things others in your community are doing to help raise awareness.

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Social Networks and Digital Activism

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009

On December 1st of each year, the world observes World AIDS Day to spread awareness and hold world governments and international leaders accountable for promises and pledges to help halt the pandemic. This year’s theme is Universal Access and Human Rights. It is my hope that by promoting human rights, education, and gender equality, especially within at-risk populations such as women in Sudan, the world’s efforts to end the global AIDS pandemic will be more effective.

According to the United Nations Development Programme, Sudan has one of the highest rates of HIV/AIDS in North Africa and the Middle East. Women and girls are disproportionally affected due to their vulnerable status and the use of rape as a weapon of war in Sudan. On Day 7 of the 16 Days campaign, we remember the words of Hilary Clinton – “women’s rights are human rights.” As we work to bring peace to Sudan, we must not allow the marginalization of women and the myriad issues they face to continue.

Today, I am asking everyone in my network on Facebook and Twitter to update their status to help spread awareness about the plight of women in Sudan. In Darfur, rape is used as a weapon of war—a weapon that has lasting physical and psychological effects. Today, tomorrow, and the next day, be the voice of these women—help build awareness by telling your networks to stand up for women’s rights. Together we can give the women of Sudan access to much needed care and empower them to be agents of change in their communities.

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Write a Letter to the Editor (LTE)!

Monday, November 30th, 2009

16 Days Photo - EDFToday, on Day 6 of the 16 Days, I am writing a Letter to the Editor (LTE) to my local newspaper to express my concern about the women in Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) and refugee camps in Darfur and Chad.

Different events compete for air time or column space in the media, and journalists face numerous obstacles to get their stories—censorship, intimidation, and detention, for example. However, a handful of reporters have tenaciously followed the plight of Darfuri women. Today, we honor them.

LTEs can have an enormous impact.  The more ways we spread the message about violence against women in Darfur, the more likely we are to influence others (our Congressional Representatives and Senators, our neighbors, Editorial Boards) to help us bring an end to sexual violence in Darfur and throughout Sudan. With the power of your words and your determination to do good, I hope you will join me in writing a letter to your local newspaper today.

Check out our basic guidelines for a successful LTE and find newspapers in your area.  Good luck!

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Reflections: Faith and Activism

Sunday, November 29th, 2009

16 Days Photos - Will 2Today, 30 November 2009, is the fifth day of our 16 Days Campaign. On this fifth day we’re celebrating faith, human rights and anti-genocide leader, Rev. Gloria White-Hammond. Like the Reverend, I carry my faith with me at all times and it is a vital part of who I am. In addition to helping mold someone into who they are I also feel that faith should and can shape what a person is and does. As an action on this Thanksgiving weekend, I chose to reflect on the role that my faith plays in my work fighting genocide and working to bring peace and stability to the people of Darfur and Sudan.

Living during this time of the world in which we find so many evils, calamities, and tribulations, one can easily become let down with their fellow man. It really doesn’t take much effort or thought to look at what’s going on, and conclude that…“you know, there sure are a lot of problems out there, and I’m just going to worry about myself.”

After all “What can I do”, you ask.

In the Book of Ecclesiastes (3:1-8) God, through Solomon, tells us that there is a time for everything – a season, actually. A season, as you know is a time that has a defined purpose, whether that purpose is defined as weather, war, peace, or harvest, all seasons have a beginning and an end. We’re no different either-though we think of our long lives, they are, in fact, just short seasons in the big picture.

This said, I will not allow myself to be a bystander is these troubled times. I will not allow the seasons of trouble, hunger, genocide, and war to begin before me and end long after I have returned to dust. I will use my faith and resolve and I will be Ecclesiastes. I will be the changes in season that I want to see, and I’ll live well because I’m lucky to live in this time. I will be happy with work done towards the betterment of my fellow man – this because I, as God instructs me, should “enjoy the good of all my labor, for it is the gift of God.”

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