UN chief sending Canada's Louise Arbour to Sudan to study situation
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UNITED NATIONS  - UN Secretary General Kofi Annan called for urgent action Thursday to stop attacks on civilians in western Sudan and announced he is sending UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour of Canada and a special adviser on genocide, Juan Mendes, to Sudan this weekend to see what can be done to provide better protection for civilians in the Darfur region.
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UN chief Kofi Annan's special envoy to Sudan urged the Sudanese government to accept international aid if it is unable to protect the population in its troubled Darfur region.
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan told the U.N. Human Rights Council on Tuesday to immediately address the escalating atrocities in Darfur by sending an independent team of investigators to the volatile Sudanese region.
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Sudan's president is sending a letter to Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expressing his commitment to the deployment of several thousand U.N. peacekeepers to help end the violence in Darfur, Sudan's U.N. envoy said Friday.
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Atrocities are occurring daily in  Sudan's Darfur region and rape and pillage directed against  civilians are at "a horrific level," United Nations High  Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour said on Wednesday.
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UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon heads to Sudan, seeking an end to violence in Darfur province.
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THE United Nations has asked NATO to examine how it could support an African Union military mission to Sudan as the European Parliament prepares to toughen its stance on the crisis in Darfur.
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In a bold move, the United States is taking the United Nations Security Council on the road this week to help end the violence and terrible suffering in Sudan.
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U.N. investigators arrived in Sudan to determine if genocide took place in Darfur and investigate reports of human rights violations in the war-torn province, a U.N. spokesman said Monday.
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan is sending a top aide to Sudan to press his case for bolstering an African Union peacekeeping force in Darfur with substantial U.N. resources, a spokesman said on Monday.
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Sudan on Thursday agreed to ease restrictions to humanitarian aid access throughout Africa's largest country after a meeting with the Canadian prime minister in the Sudanese capital.
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KELOWNA, B.C. (CP) - Canada is preparing to contribute &#36;20 million to a peacekeeping effort in violence-ravaged Sudan and will make a final decision on the move within days, The Canadian Press has learned.
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EL FASHER, Sudan  - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in the Darfur region of western Sudan on Wednesday, promising to step up pressure for a political solution to the festering conflict.
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U.N. Secretary-General Ban  Ki-moon flies to Sudan on Monday to push for talks between the  government and rebels to end the four-year-old crisis in Darfur  and clear the way for a big peacekeeping force.
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The new U.N. human rights watchdog  agreed on Wednesday to send a high-level mission to Sudan's  Darfur to probe allegations of worsening abuses against  civilians.
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The UN Security Council is to send a delegation to Sudan's war-torn Darfur region to witness the crisis there first hand, Sudanese Foreign Minister Mustafa Ismail said.
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UNITED NATIONS -- The top UN envoy to Sudan said yesterday that the Sudanese government has failed to improve security for the embattled people of Darfur or to bring to justice the perpetrators of atrocities during the 19-month conflict.