U.N. rights body battles for deal on Darfur probe
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The United Nations new human rights  watchdog was struggling on Wednesday to agree on a mission of  inquiry for Sudan's Darfur to probe charges of worsening abuses  against civilians.
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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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A United Nations panel on Wednesday recommended an independent probe into alleged human rights violations in Ethiopia&#39;s Ogaden region, where the army has cracked down on rebels.
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UNITED NATIONS -- The UN Security Council on Saturday adopted a resolution threatening to &quot;consider&quot; sanctions against Sudan and establishing a UN commission of inquiry to investigate atrocities in Darfur, Sudan, and to determine whether Sudanese
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The United Nations' top human rights body, scorned by the U.S. administration and shunned by the only two countries it has sought to scrutinize, is still trying to set the rules for combatting atrocities a year after its creation by the General Assembly.
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The UN Security Council yesterday adopted a resolution threatening possible sanctions against Sudan and establishing a UN commission of inquiry to investigate atrocities in
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The UN Human Rights Council postponed a vote on whether to dispatch a fact-finding mission to Darfur and remained mired in debate, despite cries of alarm from senior UN officials about the situation in the strife-torn region of Sudan.
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Tuesday urged swift action to stop the killing in Sudan's Darfur region, but the Security Council was divided about sending the case to the International Criminal Court or setting up an entirely new tribunal to handle allegations of crimes against humanity.
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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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UN Security Council nations met to look for common ground on a disputed US draft resolution pressing Sudan to rein in Arab militias behind the bloodshed in Darfur.
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A draft UN Security Council resolution on deploying a large peacekeeping force in Darfur runs into trouble.
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The UN Human Rights Council will hold a special session on violations in Sudan's troubled Darfur region on Tuesday, giving the recently-formed body a chance to improve its maligned reputation in the eyes of Western governments.
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Sudan&#039;s two ruling parties are divided  over sending U.N. forces to its violent Darfur region despite  three days of direct talks aimed at tackling the thorniest  issues facing the country.
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Days before a UN deadline for Sudan to disarm and prosecute those responsible for violence in the country&#39;s Darfur region, nations are looking to the African Union
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Foreign ministers of the European Union have called for the United Nations to immediately probe whether atrocities in the Darfur region of Sudan are genocide.
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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 United States circulated a draft U.N. resolution on Monday calling for a 10,000-strong U.N. peacekeeping mission to help enforce a peace deal in southern Sudan, but it stopped short of saying how war crimes suspects in the separate conflict in Darfur should be tried.