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As the world celebrates International Women’s Day this year, women in one of the most conflict-plagued corners of the world continue to push for stability and peace on behalf of their families, their communities, and their region. The courageous women of eastern Congo are fighting an uphill battle within a society entrenched in patriarchal norms, which has been slow to recognize the added value that an inclusive process can bring to ensure lasting peace.
Many of the more than 2 million Darfuris still displaced by the decade-long conflict are women and children. The photos below are of drawings by just some of the hundreds of thousands of young
Darfuri refugees whose lives are on hold until they can return home to a peaceful Darfur.
As part of our commemoration of the 10-year anniversary of the conflict in Darfur, I sat down with Enough Project advisor and Darfuri activist Omer Ismail to learn more about his personal story and his opinions on what needs to be done to bring the long conflict to an end.
With a newly confirmed U.S. secretary of state in place, the anticipation that the Obama administration will name a new Special Envoy to Sudan and South Sudan in the coming weeks, and an international campaign underway to highlight the 10th anniversary of the start of the Darfur conflict, activist voices will play an increasingly important role in the coming months to set the priorities of the U.S. government and international actors related to Sudan.
The heat was stifling and the climb was steep, but Adam insisted that he show us the place where his life was forever altered.
