UN rights mission treads fine line on Darfur
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A UN human rights mission which is due to travel to Sudan's strife-torn region of Darfur faces the conflicting tasks of proving its credibility and convincing Khartoum to lift any barriers, diplomats said here.
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A U.N. human rights mission on Monday  accused Sudan's government of orchestrating and taking part in  war crimes in Darfur and called for urgent international action  to protect civilians there.
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The United Nations new human rights watchdog was struggling on Wednesday to agree on a mission of inquiry for Sudan's Darfur to probe charges of worsening abuses against civilians.
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A U.N. human rights mission on Monday accused Sudan's government of orchestrating and taking part in gross violations in Darfur and called for urgent international action to protect civilians there.
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Sudan stuck to its guns despite mounting international pressure to accept UN peacekeepers in war-torn Darfur where rebels said the latest government offensive has left at least seven people dead.
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A planned UN human rights mission to the strife-torn region of Darfur has said that it would carry on its work outside Sudan after being denied visas to enter the country.
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His time at the helm of the world body nearing an end, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan stepped up his efforts Tuesday to force a halt to atrocities in Darfur, demanding the U.N. Human Rights Council send an independent team of investigators to the volatile Sudanese region.
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The UN Human Rights Council will hold a special session on violations in Sudan's strife-torn western region of Darfur on Tuesday, after a rebuke from Kofi Annan that it has not paid enough attention to rights violations in the province.
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Human Rights Watch has called on the United Nations Security Council to take substantive action against what it claims are ongoing rights violations in the western Sudanese region of Darfur.
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The U.N. Security Council on   Thursday voted to create a United Nations peacekeeping force in   Sudan's Darfur region to avert a new humanitarian disaster, but   the Khartoum government rejected the resolution as "illegal."
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The U.N. Human Rights Council rejected on Tuesday an attempt to hold the Sudanese government responsible for halting atrocities in Darfur, opting instead for a less-pointed resolution calling on all warring parties to end abuses.
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A group of UN experts monitoring Darfur said Monday that serious human rights violations appeared to be continuing in the strife-torn western Sudanese region.
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said the United Nations was failing to live up to its responsibility to protect human rights in Darfur, as it has often failed in the past.
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A U.N. envoy is expected to report enough progress by the Sudanese government in tackling the humanitarian crisis in the western Darfur region to satisfy the Security Council and avoid immediate U.N. sanctions, several U.N. diplomats said Tuesday.
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The UN Security Council approved a resolution Saturday threatening sanctions against Sudan unless it acts to rein in Arab militias accused of violence in Darfur that the United States has called genocide.
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The UN Human Rights Council postponed a vote on whether to dispatch a fact-finding mission to Darfur and remained mired in debate, despite cries of alarm from senior UN officials about the situation in the strife-torn region of Sudan.
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The UN Human Rights Council on Monday accused Sudan of orchestrating human rights abuses and war crimes in Darfur, while also criticising the international community's failure to protect civilians.