 | Crisis in Darfur In the Darfur region of Sudan, a humanitarian crisis is unfolding. Government backed Arab militia scalling themselves the Janjaweed continue to raid villages in Darfur and are now reaching across the border into eastern Chad. More than 200,000 men, women and children have been slaughtered in this conflict, and refugee women driven off their land, are routinely raped in refugee camps. An African Union peacekeeping force of some 7,000 soldiers has tried to suppress the violence, but this under-manned and under-equipped force has proven ineffective. Darfur has no political constituency to fight on behalf of those who suffer and die. You can be their voice.
To learn more about what's happening in Darfur, watch the Link TV Special: Our Choice Too, On the Edge In Darfur.
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 | Global Warming Alert The scientists have spoken. The air we breathe today is different from the air we breathed 20 years ago. According to the National Academy of Sciences,human activities have altered the chemical composition of the atmosphere through the build-up of greenhouse gases – primarily carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide. The heat-trapping property of these gases is undisputed and the past 10 years have un-coincidently also been the hottest years on record. The effects of global warming are startlingly apparent in Gary Braasch's glacier photographs taken for the World View of Global Warming Project.
Watch a clip from Al Gore's new film on climate change, "An Inconvenient Truth."
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 | Victims of Hurricane Katrina Residents in New Orleans's Lower 9th ward are fighting off bulldozers in an effort to prevent the demolitions of their private property. Home owners contend that the city is razing homes without proper authorization. Many groups are actively working to preserve these homes and rebuild lives but they need your support.
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 | Women in Afghanistan Human Rights Watch continues to monitor the abuses occuring against women in Afghanistan.There is a myth that Afghan women have become totally liberated since the fall of the Taliban, and for these women to get the international support they desperately need, there needs to be greater awareness about their continuing struggles. Educate yourself about the true realities on the ground facing Afghan women...
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