On Wednesday, October 10th, the UN Secretary General, Mr. Ban Ki-Moon criticized the Sudanese government's use of red tape to delay the deployment of the hybrid UN-African Union force to Darfur. To date, the Sudanese government has refused to approve a list of troop-contributing countries and the UN is being prevented from obtaining land for offices and accommodation in Darfur.

Mr. Ban outlined in his criticism of Sudan that their actions were not contributing to an atmosphere conducive for the peace talks in Libya. It has also been reported that based on the current delays initiated by the Sudanese government, the deployment of the UN-AU hybrid force will now not take place until the end of summer, 2008.

A report released on October 10th stated that over a 15 year period, 1990-2005, $300b had been spent on wars in Africa. This is amount cancels out the total amount of international aid given to Africa during the same period.

The report, complied by a group of NGOs, showed that the while the number of wars in Africa has declined, spending on the current wars has increased. It is estimated that a combined total of $18b per year is spent fighting wars in Africa. The pharmaceutical, oil, diamond, gold and financial industries are the main sources of financing all wars in Africa.

In Sudan, the Sudanese government has spent billions of dollars in its ethnic cleansing campaign in Darfur. The mass human rights abuses being committed in Darfur are allowed to continue because of the continued support of the multinational companies that are complicit in sponsoring the Sudanese government. China, Russia and India, to name but a few, who provide state funding for certain industrial operations in Sudan are also complicit in the attempted annihilation of the innocent ethnic black African population in Darfur.

While the actions of the international community have left a lot be desired, pertaining to its totally inadequate response to the crisis in Darfur, over the last few years greater focus has been placed by the international community on global warming and its future effects on the earth and mankind.

The Oscar winning movie "An Inconvenient Truth," made by Al Gore, won international acclaim for its approach in highlighting the current and future effects of global warming. On July 7th, this year, the "Live Earth" concert series was held in numerous cities across the world to further enhance Al Gore's message pertaining to global warming and the possible consequences of the international community's inaction.

On Monday, October 10th the High Court in London stated that the movie "An Inconvenient Truth" had at least nine scientific errors and that if the movie was to be distributed to schools in the UK it would require accompanying documentation highlighting the errors made in the movie. Some the errors include:

• Mr. Gore's assertion that a sea-level rise of up to 20 feet would be caused by melting of ice in either West Antarctica or Greenland "in the near future". The High Court found that this was "distinctly alarmist" and it was common ground that if Greenland's ice melted it would release this amount of water - "but only after, and over, millennia".
• Mr. Gore's assertion that the disappearance of snow on Mount Kilimanjaro in East Africa was expressly attributable to global warming - the court heard the scientific consensus was that it cannot be established the snow recession is mainly attributable to human-induced climate change.
• Mr. Gore's reference to a new scientific study showing that, for the first time, polar bears had actually drowned "swimming long distances - up to 60 miles - to find the ice". The court said: "The only scientific study that either side before the court can find is one which indicates that four polar bears have recently been found drowned because of a storm."

So while Al Gore's movie-documentary went to great lengths to prove the catastrophic effects of global warming if we fail to do anything about it, some of the data was flawed and incomplete which begs the question, which part of "An Inconvenient Truth" was not embellished?

Darfur is happening now! There can not be an embellishment of the facts which are:

• 600,000 innocent men, women and children have been murdered or have died as a result of the crisis in Darfur
• 2.5 million innocent men, women and children are displaced in refugee camps spread throughout Darfur, Chad and Central Republic of Africa
• 4 million innocent men, women and children are on the verge of death because the international community refuses to take the most basic, but appropriate action to stop the crisis in Darfur.
• Attacks on innocent men, women and children continue to happen on a daily basis.
• Young children are raped and mutilated and some are kidnapped to be used as child soldiers.
• A mass number of deaths, on a level not seen since the Holocaust, is quickly approaching.

Darfur represents the current effects of the world's ever growing demands for natural resources that primarily include oil and gas. Darfur also represents the great lengths that various governments will go to in order to fulfill their own domestic needs.

The international community refuses to take action against third party governments that sponsor the Sudanese government. This is based on the fact that these third party governments are major players on the international political stage and their influence is required to enforce sanctions on the Sudanese government.

How long are we going to allow the international community to turn a blind eye to Darfur and allow members of the international community to continue to be complicit in the mass extermination of Darfur's native black Africa population?

It is our responsibility to stand up and take action. No one person can influence change, but one thousand or better yet, one million people can.

Sudan has long been identifed as a sponsor of global Islamic terrorism. It is a breeding and training ground for Wahhabist Muslims who are trying to spread the message of death to non believers throughout the world. The alliances that Sudan has formed with Iran and Syria predate the crisis in Darfur, but they are as strong now as ever before. Sudan must be stopped and influenced to stop by us, members of the global family, joining together to influence chage.You are invited to support

The International Alliance For Human Rights and Hope for Humanity and the upcoming Voices of Hope Concert for Darfur. For further information, please call David Nolan at 212.695.7022, ext. 315 or send an email requesting information on how you can help to dnolan@iafhr.org.