“It is very kind of the people in your country to send us the food, but this is Africa and we are used to be hungry. What I ask is that you please take the guns away from the people who are killing us.”

Mariam, in a displaced camp in Darfur

“We need you to tell the world what you have seen here. We have no voice, so you must help us.”

Ibrahim, in a displaced camp in Darfur

 
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Achievements

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  • Our team has succeeded in stopping the deportation of five Darfuri asylum seekers and overturned the UK’s policy on removals to Khartoum in July 2008. We have been holding regular meetings with the Darfuri community and the Home Office to address policy and enforcement issues.
  • In November 2009 the UK Home Office announced that all non-Arab Darfuris would receive refugee status. This decision was due in part to the work carried out by Article 1.
  • The Darfuri children’s drawings we collected in Eastern Chad have been accepted as contextual evidence of war crimes by the International Criminal Court. Furthermore, they have appeared in newspapers and on television in dozens of countries, and are being exhibited in venues around the world.
  • We have successfully provided material and evidence to the ICC and other investigative bodies regarding human rights abuses in Darfur and Eastern Chad.
  • We delivered Sudan’s first petition, containing 60,000 signatures, to Gordon Brown and other world leaders.