What it is ::The Save Darfur Coalition's mission is to raise public awareness about the ongoing genocide in Darfur and to mobilize a unified response to the atrocities that threaten the lives of two million people in the Darfur region. An alliance of more than 180 faith-based, advocacy and humanitarian organizations, the coalition's member organizations represent 130 million people of all ages, races, religions and political affiliations united together to help the people of Darfur.

Learn more about the genocide and the Save Darfur Coalition's efforts to stop it by visiting www.savedarfur.org.

Background of Darfur Situation
The emergency in Sudan’s western region of Darfur presents the starkest challenge to the world since the Rwanda genocide in 1994. A government-backed Arab militia known as Janjaweed has been engaging in campaigns to displace and wipe out communities of African tribal farmers (notes about our current use of ethnic terminology).

Villages have been razed, women and girls are systematically raped and branded, men and boys murdered, and food and water supplies targeted and destroyed. Government aerial bombardments support the Janjaweed by hurling explosives as well as barrels of nails, car chassis and old appliances from planes to crush people and property. Tens of thousands have died. Well over a million people have been driven from their homes, and only in the past few weeks have humanitarian agencies gained limited access to some of the affected region.

Mukesh Kapila, the former United Nations humanitarian coordinator for Sudan, said on March 19, 2004 that the violence in Darfur is “more than a conflict, it's an organized attempt to do away with one set of people.” The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum has issued its first ever genocide emergency. John Prendergast of International Crisis Group warns, “We have not yet hit the apex of the crisis.”

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) estimates that 350,000 people or more could die in the coming months. Ongoing assessments by independent organizations such as Medecins sans Frontieres (Doctors without Borders) suggest that USAID’s estimate may be conservative. If aid is denied or unavailable, as many as a million people could perish.

Lives are hanging in the balance on a massive scale.

Current Initiatives
1. Deploy the agreed-upon hybrid AU-UN peacekeeping force now.
2. Pressure China to help end the genocide
3. Enforce existing international sanctions against the government of Sudan.

How to Get involved
Join the Movement
Join the Save Darfur Coalition's million-strong list! We'll send you information periodically with updates on the situation in Darfur and what you can do to help the people of Darfur.

Tell the World
Leaders to Act Sign our petition and tell leaders that the world is watching. The people of Darfur have waited long enough! Tell world leaders that they must take action now!

Donate to Save Darfur
Click here to make a tax-deductible contribution to our advocacy efforts to save Darfur. Your contribution will help the Save Darfur Coalition’s advocacy efforts and pressure world leaders to act immediately to bring peace to Darfur

Join a Local Group
Local volunteer advocacy groups are the backbone of the Save Darfur movement. Join an advocacy group in your area and add your voice to the millions of people around the world fighting to save Darfur

Start Your Own Group
No Darfur groups in your area? Start your own! Click here for step-by-step instructions to organize your community to help save Darfur.

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