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Blog Posts in Darfur Dream Team
Global Solutions Pittsburgh, an education and human rights group in Pennsylvania, recently paired up with a school in Pittsburgh to teach eighth grade students about genocide. In this guest blog post and video, Global Solutions Pittsburgh's Michele Cahill describes the intiative and why she personally found the work inspiring.
Summer is just around the corner, and the Darfur Dream Team Sister Schools Program is gearing up for our 2nd annual Summer Service Challenge. We started the Summer Service Challenge last year as an opportunity for students, teachers, and community members to learn more, raise awareness, and take action in honor of the 43 million refugees and displaced people around the world. The 2012 challenge will begin on World Refugee Day, June 20, and end on July 31.
A weekly round-up of must-read stories, posted every Friday.
After a five year long trial, warlord-turned-president Charles Taylor was convicted yesterday of “aiding and abetting” a rebels notorious for their use of child soldiers and favor terror tactic, amputation, in the vicious 1991-2002 civil war in neighboring Sierra Leone in which an estimated 50,000 people died. The conviction is the first by an international tribunal of a former head of state since the Nuremberg trials of Nazi leaders, a development that was no doubt received with concern by the growing list of former leaders wanted for orchestrating atrocities.
Middle school social studies teacher and coach Brian Cleveland recently returned from the Darfuri refugee camp of Djabal. He travelled to eastern Chad with Darfur Dream Team partner iAct to recruit players for the brand new soccer team Darfur United and wrote this guest blog post about the visit.
