Clooney urges U.N. to act in Darfur
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Actor George Clooney warned the United Nation's most powerful body Thursday that if it did not send peacekeepers to Sudan's Darfur region millions would die in the first genocide of the 21st century.
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UN Secretary General Kofi Annan called for help to stop killings in Darfur.
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Outgoing U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan will ask on Friday how the international community can allow the "horror" in Sudan's Darfur region to continue and say there is more than enough blame to shared all around.
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The United Nations secretary-general has urged the Security Council to take immediate action over a US draft resolution on Sudan&#39;s Darfur region.
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UN chief Ban Ki-moon urgently appealled to member states Thursday to make military contributions to the crucial, joint UN-African Union peacekeeping operation in Sudan&#39;s strife-torn Darfur region.
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Wednesday that Sudan's government has not stopped attacks on "terrorized and traumatized" civilians in its Darfur region and urged the speedy deployment of an expanded international peacekeeping force.
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The United States demanded on Thursday that the U.N. Security Council respond to Sudan's warning that any nation pledging U.N. troops for Darfur was committing a "hostile act" and a "prelude to an invasion."
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UN chief Ban Ki-moon has picked Hollywood heart-throb George Clooney, a passionate advocate for an end to war and famine in Sudan's Darfur region, as the world body's latest Messenger of Peace, an official said Friday.
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U.S. actor George Clooney and  Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel told the U.N. Security Council on  Thursday the world would be blamed for another Rwanda if  atrocities were not halted in Sudan's Darfur region.
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Kofi Annan, United Nations secretary-general, has urged the Security Council to step up its efforts to end the conflict in Sudan&#39;s western Darfur region, where growing violence
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The U.N. human rights chief on Wednesday urged the Security Council to immediately refer abuses in Darfur to the International Criminal Court, while Kofi Annan called for "urgent action" to end the violence in the vast region in western Sudan.
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George Clooney traveled to Chad on Tuesday as a U.N. "messenger of peace" after spending time in Sudan's troubled Darfur region, U.N. sources said.
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Secretary of State Powell calls the Darfur situation 'genocide' and urges the UN to take action.
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Actors George Clooney and Don Cheadle said  world leaders must not be allowed to ignore the war in Darfur,  as they received an award by Nobel peace laureates for their  efforts to help civilians caught up in the conflict.
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Oscar-winning US actor George Clooney met Egypt's foreign minister in Cairo to press his campaign for an end to war and famine in Sudan's western region of Darfur.
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UN Secretary General Kofi Annan will urge the world body's Human Rights Council to hold a special session on violations in Sudan's strife-torn region of Darfur, warning that the Council's reputation is at stake.
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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged U.N. member states on Thursday to provide critically needed aviation, transport and logistics units for the new African Union-United Nations peacekeeping force in Sudan's conflict-wracked Darfur region.