Waxploitation is pleased to launch it’s 3rd annual Charity Auction for Sudan with the 100% of the proceeds going to the Oxfam, Human Rights Watch and the Save Darfur Coalition.

Items for the auction include items signed by Coldplay, System of a Down, Gorillaz, Evanescence,  Talib Kweli, Panic at the Disco, Maroon 5, Goldfrapp, Pussycat Dolls,  Sonic Youth, Tori Amos, Wilco, Brian Wilson, Kanye West, Rihanna, Common, Patti Smith, The Roots and Bright Eyes, the cast of Law & Order, Eric Dickerson to name a few. 

According to the Save Darfur Coalition, “Darfur has been embroiled in a deadly conflict for over three years.  At least 400,000 people have been killed; more than 2 million innocent civilians have been forced to flee their homes and now live in displaced-persons camps in Sudan or in refugee camps in neighboring Chad; and more than 3.5 million men, women, and children are completely reliant on international aid for survival. Not since the Rwandan genocide of 1994 has the world seen such a calculated campaign of displacement, starvation, rape, and mass slaughter.” 

“Even though Darfur has become a prominent issue, it’s important we don’t forget that it’s a dire crisis there that is getting worse.  We can’t assume the attention Darfur is getting is the same thing as assistance. Real help is as crucial now as it ever was.” Says Waxploitation founder Jeff Antebi.      

Human Rights Watch, one of the world’s largest human rights organizations, conducts fact-finding investigations into human rights abuses in all regions of the world, then publishes those findings in dozens of reports every year, generating extensive media coverage. This publicity helps to embarrass abusive governments in the eyes of their citizens and the world.  In addition to providing much needed awareness. 

Oxfam is working in Darfur to provide clean water and much-needed sanitation for an estimated 400,000 people crowded into makeshift camps.  Across the border in Chad, Oxfam is working in refugee camps to save lives and prevent the spread of disease.   

Save Darfur Coalition is a non-profit advocacy group dedicated to ending the genocide in Darfur. It is a coalition of over 160 faith-based, humanitarian, and human rights organizations designed to raise public awareness and to mobilize an effective united response to the atrocities that threaten the lives of some two million people in Darfur.