Human Rights Watch: U.N. Backtracks in Darfur Resolution

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Press release from Human Rights Watch
Dateline Nairobi, Friday November 19

Darfur: U.N. Backtracks in Sudan Resolution

The U.N. Security Council has retreated from its previous stance to hold the Sudanese government accountable for the ongoing human rights abuses in Darfur, Human Rights Watch said today. A new resolution was passed today by a unanimous vote of the Security Council's 15 members.

While today’s resolution recalls prior Security Council resolutions passed in July and September, it leaves out the explicit demand in those resolutions for Khartoum to disarm and prosecute the government-backed Janjaweed militias . . . .

Human Rights Watch called on the Security Council to monitor the situation closely and follow through on its prior commitments to end the massive human rights abuses in Darfur.

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