• Over the past five years, over 400,000 Darfurian civilians have been killed.
• 150,000 people have died directly from acts of violence in Darfur.
• 90% of the villages of Darfur’s targeted ethnic groups have been destroyed.
• 80 infants die each day in Darfur due to a lack of proper nutrition
• 80% of those displaced are women and young girls who are consistently the victims of sexual violence and abducted into sexual slavery
• Humanitarian refugee camps in Chad and Sudan are overcrowded, disease infested, and prone to attacks.
• 2.8 million people have been displaced within Sudan.
• 250,000 people have fled Darfur, mainly to Chad where they are facing further violence.
• Humanitarian refugee camps in Chad and Sudan are overcrowded, disease infested, and prone to attacks.
http://www.dosomething.org/tipsandtools/11-facts-about-darfur
Since the eruption of conflict in 2003, Darfur, western Sudan, has been ravage by killings, torture, destruction and rape since 2003. Despite international outrage and demands around the globe to end the brutality, the deadly conflict continues. Darfur remains one of the world’s worst human rights and humanitarian catastrophes.
• 300,000 men, women, and children have died
• 2.6 million have been displaced from their homes and live in camps for refugees or Internally Displaced Person (IDPs) or wherever they can, in a courtyard, under a tree.
• An unknown number of women and girls have been abducted, raped, and abused
• A generation of children has reached school-age not knowing a home
Civilians have become victims of egregious human rights violations, primarily at the hands of the government of Sudan and the Janjawid, an allied militia. Together, they have been responsible for killings, torture, rape, detentions, forceddisplacement, the burning of homes and villages, and the theft and deliberate destruction of crops and cattle. Rebel groups have also perpetrated killings, rape, looting, abductions, and other...