U.S. Says Darfur Is Worst Rights Abuse
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WASHINGTON -- The ongoing genocide in Sudan's troubled Darfur region was the world's worst human rights abuse last year, the United States said Tuesday in a global report that found freedoms eroding in numerous other nations, including war-torn Afghanistan and Iraq.
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UNITED NATIONS : The UN&#39;s top rights official accused Sudan of failing the people of Darfur after her mission to the troubled region found evidence of probable war crimes.
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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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GENEVA -- A UN human rights team criticized the international community yesterday for failing to halt atrocities in Darfur, saying in a sharply worded report that the United Nations must act now to protect civilians from a campaign of violence orchestrated by Sudan's government.
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UN investigators strongly criticise Sudan for gross human rights violations in a report on the violence in Darfur.
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The US government said it was "concerned" by information provided by Amnesty International, which says Sudanese authorities have arrested civilians who speak to foreign officials visiting the troubled Darfur region.
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The first visit by an Amnesty International team to Darfur over the last several days showed that the US human rights record has weakened its case to intervene in a human rights crisis elsewhere.
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The United States on Tuesday accused all parties in the 22-month conflict in Sudan's western Darfur region of complicity in a growing humanitarian disaster and demanded that those responsible be held accountable for atrocities and attacks on civilians.
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US Secretary of State Colin Powell said today that genocide has occurred in Sudan&#39;s western Darfur region. It is not immediately clear what this designation
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Violations of human rights by the US are undermining international laws, a leading rights group says.
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ABUJA -- The US declaration that Sudanese government-allied militiamen have committed genocide in the Darfur region is a ''big mistake&quot; that could hinder peace talks and undermine the role of African states mediating the 19-month conflict, Sudanese government officials said yesterday. The announcement by Secretary of State Colin L. Powell Thursday that the killing, raping, and displacement of black Africans ...
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Sudan said it had imprisoned some Darfur militia and police for crimes including rape, the first admission that government security forces have committed human rights abuses there, a Khartoum daily said on Sunday.
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The United States, acknowledging its own record is in question, criticized Iraq on Tuesday in its annual report on human rights abuses, listing death squads with government links, kidnapping and torture.
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The Bush administration has done little to follow up its landmark declaration that called human rights abuses in Sudan&#39;s Darfur region &quot;genocide,&quot; resulting in &quot;100 days of failure,&quot; said advocacy group Africa Action as the world marked Human Rights Day
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Secretary of State Powell Thursday called the Darfur situation &#39;genocide&#39; and urged the UN to take action. By Danna Harman | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor.
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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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LONDON, Sep 21 (IPS) - The first visit by an Amnesty International team to  Darfur over the last several days showed that the U.S. human  rights record has weakened its case to intervene in a human  rights crisis elsewhere.