Mia Farrow to Start Hunger Strike Over Darfur

Mia Farrow, a U.N. goodwill ambassador and longtime campaigner for children in conflict zones, said she will begin a hunger strike next week to show solidarity with the people of Sudan’s Darfur region, Reuters reports.

The actress said she will begin a water fast on April 27 “as a personal expression of outrage at a world that is somehow able to stand by and watch” as starvation and disease claim victims among refuges in the region riven with ethnic and political violence. She called on world leaders to pressure Khartoum to readmit humanitarian agencies expelled from the country following the International Criminal Court’s issuing of an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omas Hassan al-Bashir.