UN, ending mission, says some human rights improvement Sudan's Darfur region
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AL-FASHER, Sudan  - Security has improved inside camps in Sudan's violence-torn Darfur region, but displaced villagers still face attacks and abuse when leave the camps, a United Nations team said Saturday, wrapping up a mission that could determine whether Sudan is hit with international sanctions.
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Excerpts from a report by a U.N. human rights team investigating crimes against humanity in Sudan's Darfur region.
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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 abuse in what  activists called a "timid" first step to confront the crisis.
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UNITED NATIONS  - Secretary General Kofi Annan called on the UN Security Council Wednesday to urgently reassess its efforts to end nearly two-years of conflict and bloodshed in Sudan's western Darfur region, saying the current approach isn't working.
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A United Nations fact-finding mission on Thursday left for Ethiopia&#39;s eastern Ogaden region where the government is battling insurgents amid reports of human rights abuses, an official said.
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The United Nations has suspended its humanitarian operations in Sudan&#39;s troubled South Darfur area following a shooting that killed two aid workers, the agency said Monday.
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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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GENEVA : Humanitarian organisations expressed alarm over worsening security in Sudan&#39;s conflict-wracked Darfur region, where the UN refugee agency has been forced to cancel several missions.
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UNITED NATIONS -- A UN commission has concluded that the Sudanese government and militias carried out mass killings and probably war crimes in the Darfur region, but stopped short of calling the violence genocide, according to a report released yesterday.
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Some relief agencies have been forced to scale back aid operations and relocate staff due to security incidents in the three Darfur states, the United Nations mission in Sudan said today.
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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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A U.N. human rights mission said Wednesday it had halted a planned visit to assess alleged atrocities in Sudan's troubled Darfur region because Khartoum had failed to give them visas.
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The United Nations human rights envoy for Sudan, overcoming resistance from African and Islamic states, had her mandate extended for another year on Friday, but a team of Darfur investigators was disbanded.
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KHARTOUM, Sudan  - Sudan is optimistic that the  U.N. Security Council will recognize its achievements in  improving the humanitarian and security situation in troubled  Darfur, Sudan's foreign minister said Thursday.
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The UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Ruud Lubbers, has suggested that the Sudanese government should grant more autonomy to the Darfur region in an effort to end the violence there.
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Talks on Darfur at the UN end with disagreement over the deployment of peacekeepers in the Sudanese region.
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The United Nations new human rights watchdog agreed on Wednesday to send a high-level mission to Sudan's Darfur to probe allegations of worsening abuses against the civilian population.