Voices From Darfur

Des Moines For Darfur group sponsoring "Voices from Darfur" Sunday, April 29th at the Hoyt Sherman Place Theater in Des Moines 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm.

"Voices From Darfur" will be an evening highlighting Des Moines area Darfurian refugees who will share their stories of survival and hope for an end to the genocide raging in their home country. Speakers from the Save Darfur Coalition in Washington D.C. and other exceptional organizations will also be featured. This will surely be an unforgettable event. Free and open to the public.

The crisis in Darfur is acknowledged to be a humanitarian and human rights tragedy of the first order. The humanitarian, security and political situation continue to deteriorate: atrocities continue, people are still dying in large numbers of malnutrition and disease, and a new famine is feared. According to reports by the World Food Program, the United Nations and the Coalition for International Justice, 3.5 million people are now hungry, 2.5 million have been displaced due to violence, and 400,000 people have died in Darfur thus far. The international community is failing to protect civilians or to influence the Sudanese government to do so.