Photo Credit: Refugees International\ Rick Neal
03/01/2007

This woman was forced from her home when rebels from Darfur crossed into Chad and attacked her village. Here, she is collecting firewood and returning to her home - a straw hut on the outskirts of the town of Goz Beida. The United Nations Security Council is currently debating whether to send a force to this area of eastern Chad near Darfur’s border. While such protection is laudable and necessary, the realities of deploying the multidimensional presence proposed by the UN Secretary-General may in fact pose unacceptable risks to civilians—and may arrive too late to protect those most at risk.