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Africa: Horn
UNHCR condemns abuses in Sudan
2005-04-22
The UN Human Rights Commission adopted a resolution Thursday condemning abuses in Sudan and accepting compromise wording on improving the situation in the embattled Darfur region. The resolution, passed by consensus and adopted without a roll-call vote, had support from Sudan and other African nations, the United States, the European Union and others. It was approved after the EU withdrew a more strongly worded document. The final resolution was the result of weeks of negotiations between the EU, the United States and African nations.

The African countries agreed to remove wording that praised the Sudanese government's steps to improve the situation in Darfur, while the Western countries dropped specific condemnation of the Sudanese government. The resolution said, "The commission condemns continued, widespread and systematic violations by all parties of human rights and international humanitarian law" in Darfur. It specifically condemned "the violence against civilians and sexual violence against women and girls, destruction of villages, widespread displacement and other violations."
Posted by:Fred

#6  It's still not genocide tho.... Of course not. Genocide can only be declared after everyone is dead.
Posted by: trailing wife   2005-04-22 1:34:41 PM  

#5  It's still not genocide tho....
Posted by: Bomb-a-rama   2005-04-22 11:26:11 AM  

#4  If people in that hell hole of a place weren't being killed, maimed and terrorized on a massive scale it would almost be more humorous than patheric. What a waste. And the point of it all is? "Weeks of negotiation" led to the EU withdrawing the "more strongly worded document." It all adds up to nothing more meaningful than a huge squandering of time, money, and life. Somebody should do an economic study into the sum cost of spitting out these "resolutions."
Posted by: Tkat   2005-04-22 10:14:21 AM  

#3  The resolution, passed by consensus and adopted without a roll-call vote, had support from Sudan and other African nations...

Well if it has the support of the nation it's condemning, you just know how effective it's gonna be.
Do the Morons of Turtle Bay just think the world is inhabited my morons or do they consider it an established fact?
Posted by: tu3031   2005-04-22 9:55:01 AM  

#2  Well, that was fast. By UN standards...
Posted by: Raj   2005-04-22 12:24:29 AM  

#1  That's the perfect graphic for a whitewash namby-pamby "all parties" are being vewy vewy bad. They'll be sent to bed without their milk and cookies if they don't play nice. Everybody agreed to dumb-down the resolution to the point of utter pointlessness. And pointlessness is Job 1 at the UN. Mission accomplished.
Posted by: .com   2005-04-22 12:22:28 AM  

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