UN Panel to Look Into Genocide in Sudan's Darfur
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan named a five-member panel on Thursday led by Italian judge Antonio Cassese to investigate whether genocide has taken place in Sudan's Darfur region.
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The United Nations Security Council has been urged to act to end ethnic cleansing in Sudan&#39;s Darfur region. Human Rights Watch is calling for an arms embargo and travel sanctions on Sudan&#39;s officials for failing
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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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African monitors will investigate reports of attacks by both African rebels and Arab militias on refugee camps and villages in Sudan's traumatized Darfur region, the United Nations said on Tuesday.
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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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KHARTOUM, Sudan -- Both Sudan's government and Darfur rebels criticized a UN report that accused the government and allied militias of atrocities in the country's western region but that stopped short of calling the violence genocide.
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The UN Security Council will hold consultations Thursday afternoon on the humanitarian and security crises engulfing the Darfur region in Sudan as the United States is
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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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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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A UN panel is given three months to establish whether genocide is taking place in Darfur in western Sudan.
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A U.N. human rights mission on Monday accused Sudan's government of orchestrating and taking part in international crimes in Darfur, where observers say more than 200,000 people have been killed in four years of conflict.
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Intervening in a Security Council debate, Secretary General Kofi Annan urged the panel on Thursday to act quickly on a new resolution to curb the violence in Darfur
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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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Sudan's government and the Janjaweed militia are not guilty of genocide but did commit mass killings, torture, rape and other atrocities in the Darfur region that merit the trial of suspects in the International Criminal Court, a U.N.-appointed panel said in a new report.
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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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US Secretary of State Colin Powell will tell a Senate panel whether the United States believes genocide is being committed in the western Sudanese region of Darfur, the State Department said.
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The International Criminal Court's prosecutor plans to charge suspects for atrocities in Darfur by February, nearly two years after the U.N. Security Council asked him to probe the Sudan region.