Harvard Darfur Action Group

Chain to China

Saturday, March 10, 2007
1-4 PM
New York City
www.chain2china.org

Be part of a human chain between the Chinese and Sudanese embassies in New York City. Contact mshutzer at fas.harvard.edu or shapiro2 at fas.harvard.edu for more information.

Human Dignity Denied: Responding to Genocide in Sudan
A talk by: William L. Saunders, HLS '80 Family Research Council

Monday, March 12
12:15 pm
Harvard Law School
Griswold Hall, Room 110

Human rights attorney Bill Saunders will discuss how the legal and political movement developed to help protect the human rights of the persecuted people of Sudan. In 1999, Mr. Saunders founded an organization to provide relief to persecuted Christians and others in Sudan. He traveled to Sudan to make a documentary film, "The Hidden Gift," which premiered at the U.S. Holocaust Museum.

FREE pizza will be served.

Sponsored by the Harvard Federalist Society

Displacement from Darfur: The Legal and Human Implications

Thursday, March 15, 2007
5:00 pm
Tsai Auditorium, S010 Center for Government and International Studies, 1730 Cambridge Street

Walter Kalin, U.N. Secretary General's Representative on Internally Displaced Persons
Roberta Cohen, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies and Co-Director, The Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement
Dong Luak, Secretary General of South Sudan Law Society
Salih Mahmoud Osman, Attorney, Sudan Organization Against Torture
Jacqueline Bhabha, Executive Director, University Committee on Human Rights Studies (moderator)

Darfur Diaries

Thursday, March 15th, 2007
7:00 pm
Tsai Auditorium, S010 Center for Government and International Studies, 1730 Cambridge Street

A screening of the breakthrough documentary behind rebel lines in Darfur. In October, 2004 a team of three independent filmmakers - Aisha Bain, Jen Marlowe and Adam Shapiro - left for Darfur, Sudan and eastern Chad. After monitoring the worsening political and humanitarian crisis for months and recognizing that the mainstream media offered marginal and inadequate coverage, the team set out with the goal of providing a platform for the people of Darfur (both those displaced inside Darfur and those living in refugee camps in Chad) to speak for themselves about their experiences, their fears, and their hopes for the future. The conflict serves as the ongoing narrative in the film, but the focus is on the people who are living through what has been labeled a "genocide." Through the voices of refugees, displaced persons, and in particular women and children, this film seeks to provide space for the marginalized victims of atrocities to speak and to engage with the world. Additionally, the film probes the history, culture, and heritage of Darfur. At the event there will be a full showing of this film, catered food, and a Q&A with Jen Marlowe, the producer of the film and the book of the same name.

Sand and Sorrow

Wednesday, March 21
6:30 pm
Harvard Square Loews Theater, 10 Church Street

"Sand and Sorrow" is the latest documentary film by award-winning filmmaker, Paul Freedman. The film examines the international community's "legacy of failure" to respond to profound crimes against humanity in the past with the current genocide in Darfur as the backdrop. While immersed in the despairing crisis of our time, Freedman gives voice to the ever-growing and inspiring movement of those who wish to make "Never Again" finally mean something.

Panel discussion to follow:

Mia Farrow is an award winning actress and activist. Her humanitarian missions to Sudan, Chad, and the Central African Republic as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador have compelled her to concentrate her efforts on bringing peace to the region. Ms. Farrow's website: www.miafarrow.org offers a guide on how to get involved with Darfur activism.

Samantha Power is the Anna Lindh Professor of Practice of Global Leadership and Public Policy at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government. Her book, "A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide, was awarded the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction.

Paul Freedman is a Los Angeles-based filmmaker and director of "Sand and Sorrow." His documentary for the History Channel, "Rwanda-Do Scars Ever Fade?" won a Peabody Award in 2005 and inspired him to tell the story of Darfur, before it too became the tragic subject of another historical documentary.

Presented by the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy and the Genocide Intervention Network

Accountability and the Obligation to Protect in Darfur

Thursday, April 12, 2007
5:00 pm
Pound Hall, Room 102, Harvard Law School

Francis Deng, Representative of the UN Secretary-General on Internally Displaced Persons
Justice Richard Goldstone, Constitutional Court of South Africa
Juan Mendez, UN's Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide
Professor Ryan Goodman, Rita E. Hauser Professor of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law; Director, Human Rights Program (moderator)

Dinner for Darfur

Wednesday, April 18
6:00-8:00 pm
Ropes-Gray Room, Pound Hall, Harvard Law School

What: Buffet Dinner Benefiting Refugees from Darfur

100% of ticket sales will go to purchase simple, environmentally friendly solar cookers for the Darfurian refugees in the Iridimi and Touloum camps in Chad. Solar cookers allow refugees to cook food provided by relief agencies without leaving the camps to search for scarce firewood, keeping refugees safe from the violence outside the camps.

Cost: $10 advance tickets; $15 at the door

Cosponsors: Asian Pacific American Law Students Association, Black Law Students Association, California Club, Christian Fellowship, Dean of Students Office, Environmental Law Society, Harvard Law Review, HL Central, HLS Democrats, HLS Latter-day Saints, HLS Republicans, Harvard Law and Policy Review, Jewish Law Students Association, La Alianza, Lambda, Muslim Law Students Association, South Asian Law Students Association, Women's Law Association

For tickets or information, contact jgabriel at law.harvard.edu.

Wole Soyinka on Darfur: Anything to do with Slavery?

Monday, April 23
5:00 pm
Tsai Auditorium, Center for Government and International Studies, 1730 Cambridge Street

Wole Soyinka, 1986 Nobel Laureate in Literature, will address the ongoing crisis in Darfur.

Co-sponsored by the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research and the University Committee on Human Rights Studies

Global Days for Darfur: Boston
Die-in, Rally, and March for Divestment

Sunday, April 29
1:00 pm
Boston Common Gazebo
www.darfurdiein.org

Join over 2000 students from across the Boston area at the Boston Common Gazebo (Boylston T-Stop) for a die-in and rally to represent the 450,000+ victims of the genocide in Darfur. We will lie down in silence and then march in solidarity to encourage divestment from Sudan. Wear white, the international color of peace, to show support. Organized by STAND: A Student Anti-Genocide Coalition and the Massachusetts Coalition to Save Darfur, the die-in, rally, and march for divestment are part of the Global Days for Darfur: Boston. Contact shapiro2 at fas.harvard.edu for more information.

View rally signups here

War in Darfur and the Search for Peace, Book launch

Featuring Alex de Waal, Editor, War in Darfur and the Search for Peace
With responses by Professor Emmanuel Akyeampong, Harvard University Department of Government

A book launch and celebration of the leading scholarly analysis of the Darfur crisis

Thursday, September 27
4:30 pm
CGIS S020

Event sponsored by the Global Equity Initiative and the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative. For questions please contact Erin Judge at Erin_Judge(at)harvard.edu.

Witness to Darfur
through dialogue, film, and music

Swanee Hunt
Liz Walker
Samantha Power
Gloria White-Hammond

Monday, October 1, 2007
8pm
Sanders Theatre, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
http://www.swaneehunt.com/WitnessToDarfur.pdf