Human Rights - The Children of Darfur - Ron Haviv Captures The On-Going Humanitarian Crisis

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(Three young girls set out from a refugee camp to gather firewood)
Photograph by RON HAVIV.
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Haviv gives viewers a haunting look at life among the civilian children of this desert region, who have endured years of hardship and brutal civil conflict. Young girls and women risk their safety daily while performing acts of survival such as gathering water and firewood. The photograph of the teenager in the red scarf who is shown with two of her friends was terrified every day, reports Haviv. Yet she felt it was her responsibility to leave the camps in search of food for her family, despite having been attacked and raped in previous excursions.
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Photography is one of the few ways of bringing such stories to distant hearths. Award - winning Photojournalist Ron Haviv was asked by UNICEF to travel to Darfur to try and capture the daily life of children.
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The situation in Darfur is urgent - between 2 and 400,000 have died, 2.5 million have been displaced from their homes, and 4.5 million people in Darfur and hundreds of thousands in the neighboring countries of Chad and Central African Republic are at risk of starvation, disease, and further attacks.
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To find out more information about the crisis in Darfur or learn about ways you can help visit these websites -
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24 Hours For Darfur
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Amnesty International USA
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Unicef - Unite For Children
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Not On Our Watch
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