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Global Day for Darfur - GHANA

The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) organized a seminar in collaboration with the Forum on African Affairs, a student group of the Political Science Department at the University of Ghana.

A documentary on the situation in Darfur was shown with a post-screening presentation and discussion. The presentation by Prof. Kwame Karkari, Executive Director of MFWA, was entitled 'The Responsibility of Intellectuals in the Search for Peace in Darfur' and discussed the different dimensions of the crisis and the many reasons why humanitarian issues arising out of the conflict must be confronted by intellectuals.

The following key points were raised:

* There is the need to recongize the situation as it really is: genocide. This will pave the way for issues to be addressed properly.

* African intellectuals must take an interest in the happenings in the Darfur region as this would facilitate a proper contextualization of the crisis that results in the general public also understanding the conflict.

* It is necessary also for students and youth to be involved in some kind of a movement for peace in Darfur. This can be done if students take an interest in the Darfur crisis and undertake activities in support of AU and UN interventions.

* The intellectual community must constantly remind the world that the people of the Darfur region have the right to live and to enjoy peace.

* The fact that the situation doesn't seem to be improving is an indication that more needs to be done to expose the perpetrators of atrocities.

* The international community, specifically, countries like China, Russia and others that are providing military assistance to the Sudan government are actually prolonging the atrocities.

A joint statement was issued by MFWA and the Forum on African Affairs and widely distributed to local and regional media. Read the statement here.

The presentation and discussion was followed by a cocktail reception.

The event was attended by political science students, academics, lecturers and other university community members.

1 TOGO SANS ETHNIES

Action Professionals Association for the People

Aegis Trust Rwanda

African Centre for Democracy and Human Rights Studies

African Center for Development

African Center for Justice and Peace Studies

Africa Internally Displaced Persons Voice (Africa IDP Voice)

African Security Dialogue and Research (ASDR)

African Women's Development and Communications Network (FEMNET)

The Ahueni Foundation

Alliances for Africa

Amman Centre for Human Rights Studies

Andalus Institute for Tolerance

Anti-Slavery International

Arab Coalition for Darfur

Arab Program for Human Rights Activists

Association Africaine de Defense des Droits de l'Homme (ASADHO)

Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies

Centre for Minority Rights Development (CEMIRIDE)

Centre for Research Education and Development of Freedom of Expression and Associated Rights (CREDO)

Citizens for Global Solutions

Conscience International

Conseil National Pour les Libertés en Tunisie

Darfur Alert Coalition (DAC)

Darfur Centre for Human Rights and Development

Darfur Leaders Network (DLN)

Darfur Reconciliation and Development Organization (DRDO)

Darfur Relief and Documentation Centre

East Africa Law Society

Egyptian Organization for Human Rights

Femmes Africa Solidarité

La Fédération Internationale des Droits de l'Homme (FIDH)

Forum of African Affairs (FOAA)

Human Rights First

Human Rights Institute of South Africa (HURISA)

Institute for Human Rights and Development in Africa

Institute for Security Studies

Inter-African Union for Human Rights (UIDH)

Interights

International Commission of Jurists (ICJ Kenya)

International Refugee Rights Initiative

Justice Africa

Justice and Peace Commission

Lawyers for Human Rights

Lebanese Association for Democratic Elections

Legal Resources Consortium-Nigeria

Ligue Tunisienne des Droits de l'Homme

Makumira University College, Tumaini University

Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA)

Minority Rights Group

National Association of Seadogs

Never Again International

Open Society Justice Initiative

Pan-African Movement

Rencontre Africaine Pour la Defense des Droits de l'Homme (RADDHO)

Sierra Leone STAND Chapter

Sisters' Arabic Forum for Human Rights (SAF)

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP)

Sudan Organization Against Torture (SOAT)

Syrian Organization for Human Rights

Unitarian Universalist Service Committee (UUSC)

Universal Human Rights Network

WARIPNET

Women Initiative Nigeria (WIN)