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Kushaal M

espac.org - SUDAN AND THE SPLA - 0 views

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  • Kushaal M on 21 Apr 13
     
    Very resourceful site about the SPLA, nearly  complete history about the movement and its aims. A vast amount of information so it might be tough to find what you are actually looking for.
Sana M

The Lost Boys of Sudan: Finding their way in America - seattlepi.com - 0 views

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sudan america lost boys

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  • never seen a dollar bill
  • Chol, 17, was showing the same resiliency that helped him get here.
  • eight years,he had been living as an orphan in the dusty, overcrowded Kakuma Camp in northern Kenya.
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  • He was 3 when he fled civil war in Sudan
  • on foot
  • He should have died. Thousands did.
  • Safe in America on his first day
  • thirst, hunger and disease.
  • Orphaned teens and toddlers alike joined thousands of Sudanese refugees as they trekked hundreds of miles across the blistering hot desert to Ethiopia, back to Sudan and then into Kenya.
  • They survived on leaves, roots and discarded animal carcasses.
  • only half did
  • Kakuma Camp in 1992
  • Sana M on 12 Apr 13
     
    Interesting article about the work and life in America that the lost boys are now experiencing.
Akanksha R

'Lost Girls' in U.S. Struggle to Find Their Way | Womens eNews - 0 views

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girls struggle u s womens lost sudan

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  • "A lot of my friends don't have this kind of chance,
  • They don't
  • speak enough English and have no writing skills. So they go and live with their boyfriends
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  • The women are suffering because they don't leave their apartments and they don't speak English. Many are having children every year and that compounds the problem. These women need to develop a functional literacy, so they can read bus schedules and the names of products and prices in stores.
  • Sudanese "Lost Boys" were making substantial strides in achieving independence, the report found, with employment rates 18 percent higher than among male U.S. counterparts. Lost Girls, by contrast, lag U.S. female counterparts by 25 percent.
  • Many come straight from the village to the United States. The transition is very hard on them
  • Girls and female teens who lost both parents--and sometimes those who had not--were either placed in African foster homes, pushed into marriages with dowries or used as domestic servants
  • , Sudanese women and single Sudanese parents with minor children
  • payments to guardians
  • far more male than female refugees found themselves in a position to meet aid workers
  • "In our culture, freedom is not for girls,
  • Girls are polite and keep quiet. It is hard to have a good life when you think you don't have a voice."
  • the Southern Sudanese Women's Association offers free counseling and educational programs to Sudanese minors in foster care programs
  • because they can't find jobs easily and are afraid they will be teased by younger kids in high school."
  • The norm is to treat girls and women like possessions, but now, we hope to show that there can be another way."
  • Akanksha R on 09 Apr 13
     
    Great site, has statistics, personal experiences, facts and details about culture about Sudanese women and girls. 
Akanksha R

Sudanese American Women Are Encouraged to Further Education | Open Equal Free - 0 views

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education important equal Sudan girls conference america

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  • Women who left the worn-torn country of Sudan were given a clear message at a recent conference: the path to success in the United States is paved by education.
  • When a woman is educated, the entire family benefits due to her ability to bring in a higher income.
  • women in Southern Sudan have been especially vulnerable, having been denied an education.
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  • In the end, Sudanese American women are faced with a double-edged sword and must overcome difficult barriers.
  • It was with hope that the women of the recent Sudanese Women’s Empowerment Conference took to heart the powerful message of how important education is in the United States and around the world.
  • Akanksha R on 09 Apr 13
     
    Short, brief but informative article. Informs reader about how a conference encouraged Sudanese American women to pursue their education and how important it is. Also a personal experience from a Sudanese woman. 
Gurupranav G

CNC World - Sudanese Refugees Struggle for Survival - 0 views

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world struggle Sudan Refugees war camp refugee camp aid international diaspora

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  • Life in the refugee camps in South Sudan is precarious as the people there face serious shortages of clean, drinkable water
  • With 37,000 displaced people, the camp has been hit worst by the lack of clean water and the poor hygiene conditions contributing to the spread of water-born diseases
  • They were only drinking water.
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  • most people who arrive at Batil camp are exhausted after an arduous journey on foot
  • severe water shortages and stretched resources are further weakening
  • "We have a hepatitis E outbreak here and diarrhoea cases
  • A lack of water is a lack of everything
  • The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is tackling this emergency by distributing aid to 80,000 refugees of all 4 refugee camps and improving access to clean water in Batil Camp.
  • camps and improving
  • g jerry
  • provid
  • We're increasing the water storage both on site and at the bore holes so we can keep these bore holes running longer. The other main thing is to increase the network of tap stands, especially for the communities further out - to stop these people having to walk so far for water."
  • "We're increasing the water storage both on site and at the bore holes
  • "I couldn't wash the children today as there was no water, and I couldn't do any cooking because there is no water.
  • Gurupranav G on 08 Apr 13
     
    Video is the same as one of the sources I shared earlier, but the article below contains the script for the video, along with a little bit more of extra info on the state of the refugees at Batil refugee camp. Not too specific, but alright to give the general picture about refugee camps in South Sudan, rather than outside it.
Gurupranav G

Struggling to bring orphaned family to Canada - Ottawa Morning - CBC Player - 1 views

www.cbc.ca/...2340945998

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  • the story of a Sudanese refugee struggling to bring his orphaned niece and nephew to Canada. Today, he's still struggling
  • Gurupranav G on 08 Apr 13
     
    Good resource, because although there is no video and this is a radio playback, the speakers talk about the story of a South-Sudanese immigrant to Canada, and it seems that his struggles to bring his family from a refugee camp in Uganda continue to get worse. May even by worse than Valentino's experience as an immigrant.
Gurupranav G

South Sudan: Sudanese refugees struggle in camps - 0 views

www.icrc.org/...south-sudan-refugees-video.htm

Sudan Refugees war SPLA struggle camps

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  • Life for Sudanese refugees in camps in South Sudan is precarious as they face serious shortages of clean drinkable water.
  • Gurupranav G on 08 Apr 13
     
    I strongly advise looking at the video embedded in this site. This really shows us that even after the Sudanese escaped their war-torn country, they still faced extreme hardship in refugee camps such as in Ethiopia. I think that it is a good idea to look at the ICRC site in general.
Gurupranav G

Israel Deports Refugees To Sudan Despite Threat To Their Lives - The Daily Beast - 0 views

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  • Israel deported at least 1,000 Sudanese refugees to North Sudan via a third county,
  • despite the fact that “[Sudan] has vowed to punish any of its citizens who ever set foot in Israel”:
  • Though Israel claims the people's return was voluntary, this claim was rejected by UNHCR, which says there is no "free will from inside a prison."
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  • "deporting Sudanese to Sudan would be the gravest violation possible of the convention that Israel has signed - a crime never before committed."
  • An Israeli man shouts racist slogans at a group of Sudanese refugees from the Darfur region as they arrive at a cultural center in southern Tel Aviv on February 15, 2013.
  • Many of the Sudanese who fled to Israel did so from Darfur,
  • American Jewish social activists have been deeply involved in the struggle against the Sudanese government’s genocidal policies;
  • Israel’s decision to send defenseless human beings back to this reality is disturbingly of a piece with the treatment it has long afforded African refugees: As mentioned above illegal immigrants may be detained for years without trial;
  • in one horrific case, a group of 21 refugees was literally left to starve on the border before three were imprisoned and the rest forced to return to the Sinai
  • Gurupranav G on 08 Apr 13
     
    I would advise people who are looking into the struggles that refugees face in their lives to look at this because the article really shows how these people are having their lives "controlled" and "dictated" by other nations. It tells us about one of the many struggles that they face.
Akanksha R

How the lost girls became the forgotten girls - Opinion - The Boston Globe - 0 views

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  • The great unanswered question is: Where in all this are Sudan’s lost girls?
  • But of the 3,700 who initially came here, only 89 were girls. Hundreds of girls had lived through and survived the very same traumas the boys had. Where were these girls? Why were they not included? What had happened to them?
  • The quick answer is that they were simply overlooked.
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  • In traditional Sudanese life, girls are often married in their early teens. Marriages are arranged by families and the groom’s family typically pays a large bride price to the girl’s family. Girls are, in this sense, an economic commodity. In the poverty-stricken refugee camps, foster families most often saw them exclusively that way. Pre-adolescent girls were domestic labor, and marriageable-age girls could be sold off as brides.
  • They are gone now, those lost girls, sold into marriage against their will and denied rights to education and choices for their future.
  • The few who did make it out are impressive people.
  • Akanksha R on 04 Apr 13
     
    This is an interesting article which talks about how Sudanese girls were abused, married off and the ones that had hope made it. It also includes shocking statistics of how many girls were actually lost and how many actually made it to America. Most of the girls were married off in their early teens, abused and denied any access to education or women rights. 
Akanksha R

Interview: 3 Sudanese girls and Valentino and Dave Eggers - 0 views

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Sudan Refugees war lost girls education interview valentino dave eggers marial bai

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  • Akanksha R on 04 Apr 13
     
    Interesting video where Valentino and Dave Eggers interview three sudanese girls about school, subjects, what they want to be when they grow up. Girls worried about future, marriage, college. We get to know the reality these girls face growing up in poverty in Marial Bai.
Akanksha R

The Lost Girls of Sudan Try to Tell Their Story - 2004-08-31 - 0 views

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  • But they're not all boys. Less noticed and vastly outnumbered are the Lost Girls of Sudan. At a refugee reunion in Phoenix, Arizona in late August, the young women held their own mini-conference to discuss their particular plight and tell their own stories.
  • The women agree that being strong and talking is not part of Sudanese culture.
  • you are in America. You have to behave like Americans, so be strong and talk."
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  • "This is your moment of fame. You have to get out here and tell your story. So don't be shy,
  • About 4,000 young men made the trip. But only 89 women did the same.
  • The majority of orphaned girls had been placed with families in the camp and were therefore overlooked.
  • "In Sudanese culture, a young woman is not allowed to stay alone, but for the guy it's okay,"
  • "So what really happened was the young girls were placed in foster homes, and while they were in foster homes they became mothers and housekeepers and got lost along the way."
  • worries that stories like these are not being heard, partly because there are so few Lost Girls, and partly because Sudanese culture does not encourage women to discuss their suffering.
  • "It's the male power thing,"
  • Some of the young women have fought in the war but they don't go out and tell it. But they need to say it and culturally we need to break that barrier to tell our part of the story."
  • Akanksha R on 02 Apr 13
     
    Lost Girls of Sudan each tell a bit of their own stories after gathering together in Arizona. They share their views and perspectives on the conflict in Sudan and the article gives the reader valuable information from the Sudanese women's side. 
Akanksha R

'Lost Girls' in U.S. Struggle to Find Their Way | Womens eNews - 0 views

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girls u s struggle Sudan Refugees history Lost tribes transitions

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  • Akanksha R on 02 Apr 13
     
    Informative article that talks about how the Lost Girls of Sudan have settled in the US and are slowly stepping out of their comfort zone and starting to talk about what life was like for them in Sudan. 
Issy Mackey

Good reason to help Sudanese - 0 views

www.canberratimes.com.au/...p-sudanese-20120322-1vmn4.html

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  • Nuba Mountains
  • border between Sudan
  • new country of South Sudan
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  • became independent on July 9, 2011.
  • South Sudan's independence
  • achieved
  • two civil wars
  • each lasted about 20 year
  • killed over two million people
  • ended in 2005
  • signing of a Comprehensive Peace Agreement
  • agreement was not comprehensive enough
  • excluded three border areas
  • remain in dispute: Abyei, Blue Nile and South Kordofan
  • civil wars
  • southern Sudan
  • massive numbers of refugees
  • more than 25,000 eventually coming to Australia
  • by far the largest group of black Africans in Australia
  • Most South Sudanese
  • came to Australia
  • 2001 and 2007
  • formed the majority of our refugee intake
  • Some were ''Lost Boys''
  • grew up wandering through southern Sudan
  • iving in refugee camps
  • finally going to the US
  • Canada and Australia
  • other big Africa story of the past two weeks, Invisible Children's Kony 2012 video, involves South Sudan's southern border
Dhanya N

Slavery in Sudan - 0 views

www.sudanupdate.org/...slave.htm

Sudan Refugees war slavery slaves answers facts

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  • Dhanya N on 27 Mar 13
     
    This website has a lot of answers to questions people may be wanting answers to while researching about sudan. Such as how many slaves there were, who controls them etc.
Gaspard N

A Brief History of Sudan - Part 3 - 0 views

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Sudan Conflict Peace Intergovernmental authority

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  • Gaspard N on 27 Mar 13
     
    This is part 3 of "A brief History of Sudan", this article talks about the possibility of the end to a military conflict, the end to the cilvil war, peace intergovernmental authority. It is a a very detailed article and very useful.
Maud R

Sudan: The Passion of the Present: Equipping "Lost Boys" for life - 2 views

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  • Most of the Lost Boys have post-traumatic stress disorder, said David Berceli, an Arizona State University doctoral candidate researching PTSD. He has worked with some of the estimated 500 Sudanese refugees who settled here as well as some Lost Boys on the East Coast.
  • "They've been in the U.S. five years. Naturally, it's trying to surface; they're having difficulty," Berceli said, adding that some are drinking and engaging in unhealthy activities.
  • When they were brought here, much was done to help the "poor boys" who had suffered so much, he said. "That's gone, that's faded . . . society has moved on."
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  • Jany Deng, 26, is one of the success stories.
  • As recently as last week, one of the Lost Boys showed up drunk at a fund-raiser. "It's heartbreaking to see that happen," she said. "It's a way to deaden the pain. They're trying to numb themselves to those old painful hurts - the nightmares."
  • The latest tragedy happened in February when Lost Boy, Joseph Abil, who had been suffering from depression took off on foot and wandered along Interstate 17 near Anthem during rush hour.
  • the young refugees seemed to have achieved an unbelievable dream: after a treacherous journey across Africa and a childhood spent in a refugee camp, they got a chance to start anew in America.
  • Communities embraced them, and there were widely publicized success stories
  • Most of the Lost Boys have post-traumatic stress disorder,
  • AZ Lost Boys Center
  • He works at the AZ Lost Boys Center as an outreach coordinator, teaching other Lost Boys about what it takes to thrive in Arizona.
  • When they arrived, it was like coming from "the Stone Age to modern civilization," he said.
  • nightmares keep the Lost Boys from sleeping any more than three or four hours a night.
  • One of the Lost Boys recalled a nightmare, Shapiro said, of how he woke up, sure that he was in Sudan, ready to be executed.
  • Arushi A on 27 Mar 13
     
    This is a good article about the Lost Boys now in America. It tells a success story, and a tragedy story of a Lost Boy killed. 
  • Maud R on 15 Apr 13
     
    An article (from 2005) about the ups and downs of leaving Kenya and Sudan. This article is all about the boys who ame to Arizona, America. There are interviews with some of the refugees.
Issy Mackey

Sudan: Causes | Conflict Observer Project - 0 views

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  • Violation of the Addis Ababa agreement.
  • President Nimeiry attempted to take control of oi
  • l fields straddling the North-South border
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  • once majoroil reserves were discovered in Bentiu in 1978, in Southern Kurdufan and Upper Blue Nile in 1979
  • Access to the oil fields meant significant economic benefit to whoever controlled them.
  • , the Unity oilfields in 1980, Adar oilfields in 1981, and in Heglig in 1982
  • CPA (2005) and the referendum for the South independence
  • During the 80’s
  • political instability in South Sudan increased
  • Nimeiry instituted the strict Islamic law (Sharia) in all Sudan
  • east partly, by a desire to shore up his popularity in the largely Muslim North,
  • urther inflaming opposition in the Christian and Animist South
  • not address many issues which remain unresolved even today
  • Border demarcation is particularly problematic
  • ens of thousands of refugees have fled conflict areas
  • 20% of the new border
  • not yet been agreed upon
  • post-independence citizenship complications have become a major issue with an estimated 2 million South Sudanese living in the North
  • logistics of splitting oil revenues
  • 38 billion dollars national debt have yet to be worked out
  • Issy Mackey on 26 Mar 13
     
    Has some information on the violation of the Addis Ababa agreement and the problems which still remain today in Sudan.
Sana M

Sudanese 'Lost Boys' in US, men now, look homeward to new nation - CSMonitor.com - 0 views

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sudan boys lost history war america

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  • Driven by familial obligations, nationalism, and a desire to help strengthen the new country’s foundation, many of the 26,000 South Sudanese now living in America say pending independence has brought the moment they have been waiting for.
  • Since the referendum, about 50 people each week have contacted the Government of South Sudan Mission to the United States and the United Nations in Washington, D.C., seeking help processing paperwork for their returns.
  • “The government has been calling for the diaspora to return. Now that the war is over, we need different skills, not only fighting skills.”
  • Sana M on 12 Apr 13
     
    Good article about how Sudan is now and how the boys who are now living in America feel about it.
Sana M

Lost Boys of the Sudan - 0 views

www.lostboyschicago.com/LostBoys.htm

sudan lost boys history war america

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  • Approximately 26,000 Sudanese boys were forced by violence from their southern Sudan villages in the late 1980s.
  • Only half of the original boys, about 10,000-12,000, survived the journey, arriving at Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya in 1992. The majority of them were between the ages of 8 and 18 (most of the boys don't know for sure how old they are; aid workers assigned them approximate ages after they arrived in Kenya).
  • Sana M on 12 Apr 13
     
    Article about what happened during the war.
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