UA students doing their part to help with Darfur
Adam O'Hern
Issue date: 1/18/08 Section: News
This stance by the U.N. is somewhat controversial because there are well-established legal guidelines for identifying genocide set down by the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide, Irion said.
These guidelines include defining genocide as "deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part," according to Article II of the Convention.
The U.S., however, has officially acknowledged the situation happening in Darfur as genocide, leading the way for a harsher classification by the U.N., Irion said.
President Bush said in a Jan. 8 statement that he is "deeply troubled that innocent civilians continue to fall victim to the scourge of government- and rebel-led attacks in Darfur" in conjunction with the third anniversary of the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement in Sudan, according to the USA Today Web site.
STAND will present a lecture on genocide featuring Samantha Power and the documentary "The Devil Came on Horseback" at 5 p.m., Monday, Feb. 11, in the Union Ballroom.
Other upcoming events to acknowledge and aid the situation include a weeklong Human Rights Film Festival from April 14-18, the second annual "From Dickson to Darfur" - a march up Dickson Street, "Dunks for Darfur" - a basketball tournament Jan. 24 at the HPER basketball courts, musical performances, speakers and free food.
The deadline to register for "Dunks for Darfur" has been extended until 5 p.m. Tuesday. The registration fee is $10 per player and includes a "Dunks for Darfur" T-shirt and free CiCi's pizza. Registration forms can be picked up in the STAND mailbox on the sixth floor of the Union or by e-mailing stand@uark.edu.
"Awareness is the strongest tool in bringing about real action to stop situations like Darfur," Irion said.
These guidelines include defining genocide as "deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part," according to Article II of the Convention.
The U.S., however, has officially acknowledged the situation happening in Darfur as genocide, leading the way for a harsher classification by the U.N., Irion said.
President Bush said in a Jan. 8 statement that he is "deeply troubled that innocent civilians continue to fall victim to the scourge of government- and rebel-led attacks in Darfur" in conjunction with the third anniversary of the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement in Sudan, according to the USA Today Web site.
STAND will present a lecture on genocide featuring Samantha Power and the documentary "The Devil Came on Horseback" at 5 p.m., Monday, Feb. 11, in the Union Ballroom.
Other upcoming events to acknowledge and aid the situation include a weeklong Human Rights Film Festival from April 14-18, the second annual "From Dickson to Darfur" - a march up Dickson Street, "Dunks for Darfur" - a basketball tournament Jan. 24 at the HPER basketball courts, musical performances, speakers and free food.
The deadline to register for "Dunks for Darfur" has been extended until 5 p.m. Tuesday. The registration fee is $10 per player and includes a "Dunks for Darfur" T-shirt and free CiCi's pizza. Registration forms can be picked up in the STAND mailbox on the sixth floor of the Union or by e-mailing stand@uark.edu.
"Awareness is the strongest tool in bringing about real action to stop situations like Darfur," Irion said.
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Bobbi Buchanan
posted 1/21/08 @ 8:04 PM CST
The Darfur tragedy is not new. In 1985 I was on track to go to Darfur to work in a refugee camp. A few months before I was to go, the aid workers were expelled. (Continued…)
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