Darfur (pb): Twenty Years of War and Genocide in Sudan

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The situation in the Darfur region of the Sudan is grave and the international community has failed to take steps to protect civilians or to influence the Sudanese government to intervene. In answer to this injustice, Amnesty International, the Holocaust Museum of Houston and Proof: Media for Social Justice have partnered to create Darfur: Twenty Years of War and Genocide in Sudan. Here, three periods of the crisis are covered, including images from 1988, when 150,000 died of starvation; 1992 - 1995 when 100,000s fled the civil war to other countries and the recent humanitarian crisis

Leora Kahn is the founder of Proof: Media for Social Justice, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to create awareness of the issues faced by populations in post-conflict societies and to encourage social change through the use of photography and education. Kahn has served as the director of photography at Workman Publishing and Corbis, and is currently at work on global projects with Amnesty International, Participant Films, and the United Nations. She recently edited the Lucie Award winningDarfur: Twenty Years of War and Genocide in Sudan (powerHouse Books, 2007) in collaboration with Amnesty, and curated an accompanying exhibit that will tour the U.S. this year with the Holocaust Museum Houston. Kahn is currently working on an exhibition in Rwanda with Aegis Trust about Hutu rescuers during the genocide.