Some Updates About Genocide in Darfur

• Nongovernmental organizations and other groups appear to have scored a surprising success in an effort to link the 2008 Olympics, which the Chinese government holds very dear, to the killings in Darfur, which, until recently, Beijing had not seemed too concerned about.

• Darfur activists have planned 195 events nationwide as part of the Global Days for Darfur from April 23rd-30th. Rally participants will come together to call on world leaders to adopt - and enforce - tough sanctions on Sudan until it allows the deployment of an international peacekeeping force to Darfur. Click here to find an event near you and RSVP.

• In Darfur is a play that follows an aid-worker’s mission to save and protect lives, a journalist’s pursuit to deliver a front page story and a Darfuri woman’s quest for safety. It will be showing in New York at Public Theater from April 13 – April 29. Check out the play's website here.

• Unfortunately, the Bush administration continues to deny that a genocide is actually taking place.