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Unanimous passage of UNSC Resolution 1769 on July 31, 2007-- authorizing more than 26,000 peacekeepers to form the UN-AU peacekeeping force (UNAMID)-- was an important step toward ensuring security, humanitarian access, civilian protection and human rights in Darfur. You can help us ensure we don’t stop too soon; send an email or fax to the UN Security Council today.

Grave conflict-related violations of human rights and international humanitarian law continue in eastern Chad, on the border of Sudan’s Darfur region. Thousands of displaced girls and women living in camps for Interternally Displaced Persons (IDPs) face rape and other sexual violence at the hands of members of the Chadian self-defense and Sudanese armed groups operating in eastern Chad.

The people of northern CAR have been abandoned to merciless armed groups, government soldiers and armed criminal gangs that kill, destroy property and houses, kidnap children, and rape with impunity.

The people of Darfur need your help to urge Congress to fund peacekeeping forces to stop systemic rape and other abuses in the war-torn region. In July, the U.N. Security Council voted to create a joint U.N.-A.U. peacekeeping force in Darfur (UNAMID) with full deployment by December 31. Unless Congress acts, the Darfur peacekeeping missions may falter due to lack of funds.

The people of Darfur need the full deployment of UN-AU peacekeepers now. The UN urgently needs two things to make this happen: (1) Ground and air transport equipment (including 24 helicopters), and (2) An end to Khartoum’s obstruction of deployment.

Tell Sudanese President al-Bashir the world is watching - that we will know if harm comes to these civilians - and ask him to take all necessary steps to prevent further attacks.