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Do More Canada
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Do More Canada is a student initiative founded in the nation’s capital, Ottawa, with the sole goal of raising human rights awareness throughout the world. Do More Canada is very different however than regular organizations, since with them, the public can make a difference in the world while doing what they love. They can write a song, a poem, design a t-shirt, paint a canvas, do photography and even express themselves through music. Art is expression and Do More Canada wants expression to be advocacy.

Do More Canada would like to work with as many people, politicians, business’s and organizations as possible to obtain one goal: world peace and justice for all.

Darfur
More than seven years into the worst humanitarian crisis of the decade, insecurity and terror roams the hills of Darfur. This region in the west of Sudan has a population of a little over 6 million people, most live in a state of paranoia and must hide to stay alive. It is believed over 4.5 million people are now affected by the crisis, many of which depend on humanitarian assistance to survive, such aid is hard to get due to the nature of the crisis.

The dilemma started in the early months of 2003 when two Darfuri rebel movements being; the Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) and Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) attacked government military installations to fight against it’s country’s historical politics and Sudan’s economic marginalization of Darfur. The Sudanese government, was then engaged in important negotiations with the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) to end a three decades long civil war between North and South Sudan, responded swiftly and viciously to extinguish the insurgency. Through coordinated military raids with government-armed militia (collectively known as the janjaweed), the Sudanese military specifically targeted ethnic groups from which the rebels received much of their support. The civilian casualties were immense. Over 400 villages were completely destroyed and millions of civilians were forced to flee their homes. In September 2004, the World Health Organization estimated the death toll to be around 50 000 since the beginning of the conflict, this only 18 months after. The methods undertaken for this mass murder have proved to be inhuman, these include the dismembering of human bodies and the burning of children. Recent figures show that more than 450 000 people have been murdered, including 51 peacekeepers and more than 4.5 million displaced people.

Today, fighting between the rebel movements and the government continues. President al-Bashir was charged by the Hague in July 2010 for orchestrating the Darfur genocide, however the International Criminal Court (ICC) has no way of apprehending this criminal without proper measures undertaken by the International Community. Without any humanitarian organization there to help those in Darfur and the ignorance of the International Community and it’s governments, fighting in Darfur remains dire.

References: www.domorecanada.com