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 * SOCIAL ISSUES OF DARFUR**

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http://www.socialedge.org/blogs/global-x/topics/Darfur


 * Due to poor conditions in refugee camps, as many as 70,000 people have died. The World Health Organization suspected that the death poll would increase if other countries did not provide health aid.
 * Thousands of child refugees are being captured and forced into being child soldiers for the Sudan government.(http://www.talkleft.com/story/2004/10/15/060/70123)


 * Child recruitment is taking place in plane site, even in front of the CNAR [Chadian government body in charge of refugees] and Chadian armed forces, who pretend not to see what is going on.
 * Roland-Gosselin said it's close to impossible to know how many kids are being abducted. UN estimated last year up to 7,000 and 10,000 child soldiers were either forced into or recruted in Chad.
 * 250,000 refugees live in camps. She said that despite the attempts of UN agencies and aid workers, the problem has worsened and increased.
 * One of the refugee leaders opposed to the practice told Waging Peace: "Now it's worse, it's not only aggressive but worse ... They are selling anybody, you know, the boys from nine to 15 in the camp they are just selling them."- has suspicions of older men being involved in the trading of child soldiers. Another refugee leader told Waging Peace: "We are very concerned about the future of our children who have survived the killing in Darfur. We want them to study and have a future. We don't want them to join the fighters and become useless." http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jun/06/sudan.humanrights


 * Between 2003 and 2005, at least 200,000 civilians died from violence, disease, and starvation. Within the past 5 years, thousands of women have been raped and more than 2.5 million have fleed from their homes, their villages burned and property stolen.

(http://www.ushmm.org/conscience/alert/darfur/contents/01-overview/).
 * The Sudanese government is responsible for most of the danger happening to civilians.


 * Caught in the middle of the struggle between rebel forces and government-backed militias, thousands of women, some as young as 4, have become victims of rape.

"That is one of the biggest issues in Darfur: the rapes, and crimes against women and children," says police commissioner of UNAMID, Micheal Fryer.


 * Relief workers can count on that almost every woman living in aid camps has been raped or become a victim of gender-based violence. Many times, it is when teen girls are out running errands and are raped multiple times by militiamen, say relief workers.

"She said they removed their scarves and used it to tie them up and were taking turns to rape them. One is 13 years old; the other one is 16 years," Ajayi Funmi of the UNAMID police, who is trying to educate women, said after talking to two girls.
 * People say the situation has now become so bad that rape is, in a way, a way of life and men are unwilling to defend the women because they fear they may be killed.
 * So many women are raped and taken advantage of that as many as 20 babies a month are being dumped in one camp of 22,000 people.[| http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/06/19/darfur.rape/index.html]