Know Your Human RightsYHR Canada adds voice to end Darfur conflict
Monday, September 18, 2006
Toronto, 17 September 2006: To mark the Global Day for Darfur, representatives of Youth for Human Rights Canada attended the Ramsden Park rally and concert in downtown Toronto adding their voices in calling for an end to the ongoing ethnic violence in the western Sudan. The Toronto concert was one of 60 such rallies world-wide and attracted 3,000 supporters.Judith Schwyter, Samantha Cirillo, and Marg Dolbaczuk met with event organizers Senator Romeo Dalliaire and Justin Trudeau to brief them on the YHRI campaign to promote planetary awareness of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Senator Dallaire was outspoken at the rally. He called on Canada to take a leadership role in ending the Darfur conflict. "Our responsibility is clear. We have the capacity. What is lacking is the political will. It now falls to Canada, as a leader of the world's middle powers, to take charge of the mission, prepare for deployment of Canadian Forces and rally other middle powers-such as Japan, Germany, India, Brazil and Scandinavian countries-to commit the resources and troops needed to stop the slaughter."
Besides Senator Dallaire and Justin Trudeau, a coalition of nongovernmental organizations including KAIROS: Canadian Ecumenical Justice Initiatives, the Canadian Jewish Congress, and War Child Canada organized the rally.
