Promises in Darfur are not enough

Fifteen months after promising desperately needed peacekeepers,
helicopters, and other critical resources to help end the mass
killings in Darfur, governments have failed to deliver.

UN-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) peacekeeping troops are
still ill-equipped and well below authorized deployment levels. And
innocent Darfuri civilians are still being violently murdered, raped,
and driven from their villages.

Help support our life-saving effort to protect the people of Darfur by
making a gift to our Keep the Promise! Campaign today.

Your donation will support vital Amnesty efforts to bring genuine
protection to the still-vulnerable Darfuri people, by ending the flow
of arms to Sudan's regime and pressuring delinquent nations to make
good on their promises to fund the UNAMID force.

Millions of New Yorkers are already seeing our hard-hitting new
campaign to turn up the pressure.



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Amnesty International activists protest outside the UN General
Assembly meeting in New York on September 25th.

Amnesty's demonstration at the opening of the UN General Assembly last
month, co-sponsored with 15 other organizations, brought out hundreds
of impassioned activists and Darfuri nationals. It was observed by UN
staff, government officials, and members of the press. In addition,
our dramatic mobile billboards have been touring Manhattan and Harlem
neighborhoods, complemented by 100 radio ads, tens of thousands of
handbills and postcards across the city, and print ads in The New York
Times, Hoy, and El Diario.

But we can't keep this up without your support. Will you help to bring
about an end to the killings in Darfur by making a gift to Amnesty
International? Your gift will be deployed immediately to:

* Fund new investigations and stage more public demonstrations
* Pressure UN Security Council and UN member states to fulfill
their unmet pledges to UNAMID
* Step up our efforts on Capitol Hill to pressure the UN Security
Council to widen the arms embargo from Darfur to all of Sudan

Promises are not enough. We won't rest until UN member states make
good on their commitments to actually protect Darfur. Every gift –$50,
$100, $500, or $1,000–helps apply more pressure to stop the killings.

If there's one thing I've learned from three decades in the human
rights movement, it's the resilience of the human spirit and the
heroic potential of everyday citizens, who bravely stand up to power
to make a difference.

I hope you'll join us.

Sincerely,

Larry Cox
Executive Director
Amnesty International USA