THE SMALLEST WITNESSES: THE CONFLICT IN DARFUR THROUGH CHILDREN'S EYES

As featured in the New York Times & on NPR and ABC News

February 1-22 - Exhibit
Odegaard Library on the campus of the University of Washington

The exhibition features 27 drawings by children from Darfur, who escaped
the massive ethnic cleansing in Sudan. Without instruction or prompting,
these children produced disturbing and vivid images of the atrocities they
had witnessed. Their drawings are eyewitness accounts of the attacks by
the Janjaweed, the bombings by the Sudanese government forces, the
shootings, the rapes, and the burning of villages. Schoolchildren from
seven refugee camps offered Human Rights Watch researchers their drawings
as living testimony of life in Darfur. These drawings with their unique
visual vocabulary of war have given a forceful voice to the youngest
victims of the crisis, which as taken the lives of an estimated 200,000
and displaced over 2 million.

February 1 - Panel and Reception
6:30 pm
Odegaard Library on the campus of the University of Washington

Featuring: Human Rights Watch researcher Olivier Bercault, who collected
the drawings. Bercault has documented human rights violations in Sudan,
Chad, Afghanistan and Iraq; Nancy Farwell, Chair of the African Studies
Department at UW, who has studied extensively the impact of war on
children; Amna Ibrahim, a UW fellow from Sudan, who has worked with relief
organizations in Sudan, including with traumatized children; and Fred
Abrahams, senior emergency researcher for HRW (moderator). The event is
free and light refreshments will be served.

This program is sponsored by Human Rights Watch, American Jewish
Committee, Washington State Holocaust Education Resource Center, and
SaveDarfurWashingtonState