Crisis in Darfur

dublin | anti-war / imperialism | event notice Monday August 20, 2007 15:33 by Socialist - Socialist Workers Party info at swp dot ie 01-8722682

Is UN intervention a solution?

Socialist Forum
Crisis in Darfur: Is UN intervention a solution?

Speaker: Helena McNeil
Tuesday 21st August,

8.30pm The Red Parrot Pub, Dorset St.

Following an international clamour to send United Nations (UN) troops to Darfur in western Sudan, the UN has voted to send troops to Darfur.

More than 200,000 people have died in Darfur in the last three years and around two million have been displaced.

This is the result of fighting between government forces and rebel groups. Many civilians have suffered and, quite rightly, people across the world want the horror to end.

But the question however remains is UN intervention a real solution to the crisis in Darfur? Or will it, as the NGO Action Against Hunger argues, have disastrous consequences that risks triggering a further escalation of violence while jeopardising humanitarian assistance to millions of people”?

Come along and join the discussion