mtvU has launched a free online video game called Dying for Darfur in order to raise awareness for the situation in Darfur.

From the site:

In partnership with the Reebok Human Rights Foundation and the International Crisis Group, mtvU launched the Darfur Digital Activity Contest, an unprecedented competition bringing together student technology and activism to help stop the genocide in Darfur.  Susana Ruiz, Ashley York, Mike Stein, Noah Keating and Kellee Santiago of the University of Southern California conceived the game and worked closely with humanitarian aide workers with extensive on the ground experience in Darfur to develop it.

Darfur is Dying is a narrative-based simulation where the user, from the perspective of a displaced Darfurian, negotiates forces that threaten the survial of his or her refugee camp.  It offers a faint glimpse of what it's like for the more than 2.5 million who have been internally displaced by the crisis in Sudan.

Here are links where you can learn more about the Darfur crisis:

American Refugee Commitee: Emergency in Darfur
Darfur is Dying: Background
UNHCR: The UN Refugee Agency

[via BBC News]

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Refugee Girl with Baby (image)