U.S.: Darfur genocide worst rights abuse
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Fledgling U.S.-backed democracies in Afghanistan and Iraq are failing to protect human rights, the State Department said Tuesday, despite huge flows of American aid to improve conditions after the ousters of the Taliban and Saddam Hussein.
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A key report on war crimes in  Sudan's Darfur region is triggering an intense diplomatic  battle between the United States and Europe on how to prosecute  perpetrators of pillage, slaughter and rape.
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Secretary of State Colin Powell is leaning toward a determination that the violence in the western Sudan region of Darfur constitutes genocide, Bush administration officials said on Wednesday.
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July was the most dangerous month for  humanitarian workers in Sudan's Darfur region and afforded the  worst access to those in need since the conflict began 3-1/2  years ago, aid agencies said on Tuesday.
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Secretary of State Colin Powell said Thursday the abuses committed by government-supported Arab militias in Sudan qualify as genocide against the black African population in the Darfur region â- determination that should bring
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MORNIE, Sudan - A U.S. aid chief got a firsthand look at the anger among Darfur's beleaguered population Friday, when residents of a refugee camp beat up a government worker who tried to stop them from complaining to the visiting diplomat...
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UNITED NATIONS  - The United Nations' Canadian human rights chief urged the Security Council on Wednesday to immediately refer abuses in Sudan's Darfur region to the International Criminal Court.
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The United States declared on Thursday genocide has occurred in Sudan&#39;s Darfur region and blamed the Khartoum government and Arab militias for the crisis that has driven more than a million people from their homes.
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The State Department declared today that the genocide in Darfur is the worldâs gravest human rights abuse.
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UNITED NATIONS - The U.N. 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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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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The violence that prompted Washington to declare last year that genocide was occurring in Sudan's Darfur region continues, Secretary of State Colin Powell said Sunday.
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BRUSSELS, Feb 3 (IPS) - United Nations recommendations that violence in the  Darfur region of Sudan should be referred to the International  Criminal Court is threatening to bring tensions between the  European Union and the United States over the issue to a head.
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The US Secretary of State Colin Powell declares that genocide has taken place in Sudan's Darfur region.
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The United Nations andthe United States on Wednesday strongly condemned the recent violation of a cease-fire by the rebels in Sudan&#39;s troubled region of Darfur.
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AL-FASHER, Sudan -- The former US ambassador to the United Nations visited a camp for the displaced in the troubled Darfur region yesterday and sharply criticized Sudan, the United Nations, the US government, and the international community as doing too little to stem the humanitarian crisis.
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In the strongest U.S. statement to date on the humanitarian crisis in Sudan, Secretary of State Colin L. Powell today said for the first time that "genocide" has been committed there.