Mia Farrow, actress and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, appears live in the virtual 3-D on-line community Second Life, at the LCMedia sim, to discuss and answer questions about the crisis in Darfur.
The Second Life event was sponsored by the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum's Committee on Conscience, and was held in front of a virtual replica of the museum, which included a dramatic exhibit of photographs depicting the genocide emergency in Darfur.
Guest speakers include:
John Heffernan, Director of the Genocide Prevention Initiative of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Committee on Conscience;
Ron Haviv, an award-winning photojournalist, whose images of Darfur are part of the virtual event;
Ronan Farrow, UNICEF Spokesperson for Youth in Sudan, Genocide Intervention Network representative, and author of numerous articles on the crisis in Darfur; and
Bill Lichtenstein, president of Lichtenstein Creative Media, who served as moderator.
The virtual photo exhibit, "Our Walls Bear Witness - Darfur: Who Will Survive Today?", is a virtual reproduction of the powerful, outdoor exhibition highlighting images of the Darfur crisis by leading photojournalists that were projected onto the exterior of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC during Thanksgiving Week 2006.
The event comes as the situation in Darfur continues to worsen dramatically. The conflict, now in its fourth year, has driven 2.5 million Darfuris from their homes, with an estimated death toll of 200,000. The world's largest humanitarian operation involving 14,000 humanitarian aid workers, is becoming increasingly threatened.
The event in Second Life was held at The Infinite Mind virtual broadcast center on the LCMedia sim, and was simultaneously broadcast in Second Life in Camp Darfur, and Global Kids, on the Second Life teen grid.
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