SaveDarfur.org has a post called "Special Guest Blogger: Speaker-designate Nancy Pelosi Posts on Darfur for Human Rights Day" that's worth checking out...
Fifty eight years ago, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights, announcing the basic rights and fundamental
freedoms to which every citizen of the world is entitled, and the Convention on
the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, declaring genocide a
crime under international law which the civilized world must prevent. This
weekend, we mark these anniversaries with heavy hearts, reminded that we are
bound to aid those who have been deprived of these very rights and
protections.In the preamble to the Declaration of Human Rights, the United
Nations and its members pledged to achieve "the promotion of universal respect
for and observance of human rights and fundamental freedoms." Despite this
pledge, we have seen an atrocity unfold before our very eyes in Darfur, yet we
have taken little action to protect these sacrosanct rights. The lack of
international action has allowed the Sudanese government to continue with what
USAID and the United Nations have called an "ethnic cleansing," as the nightmare
continues for our brothers and sisters in Darfur.
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