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UN mission cancels visit to Darfur
The five-member high level team, now in Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian capital, said they would visit some locations near the Sudanese border to gather information.
NEW YORK: The fact finding mission of the UN Human Rights Council mandated to study the situation in conflict-ridden Darfur region of Sudan has called off their planned visit to the country after failing to obtain visa.
The five-member high level team, now in Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian capital, said they would visit some locations near the Sudanese border to gather information.
The team, headed by Jody Williams who won the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize for her work campaigning against landmines; will return to Geneva to write its report which will be presented to the UN in March.
More than 200,000 people have died and two million rendered homeless in poverty-ridden and resource scare Darfur where rebels demanding autonomy are battling the government forces and Janjaweed Arab militias since 2003.
Around four million people now survive on humanitarian aid in what the United Nations describes as the "largest humanitarian crisis in the world."
Apart from Williams, other members of the mission include Mart Nutt, an Estonian parliamentarian and member of the Council of Europe's European Commission against Racism and Intolerance, Bertrand Ramcharan, the former Acting and Deputy UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. The members are serving in their personal capacity.
Before leaving on the mission, Williams said that the team wanted to come up with "recommendations that we hope are implementable and not just grand thoughts".
The five-member high level team, now in Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian capital, said they would visit some locations near the Sudanese border to gather information.
The team, headed by Jody Williams who won the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize for her work campaigning against landmines; will return to Geneva to write its report which will be presented to the UN in March.
More than 200,000 people have died and two million rendered homeless in poverty-ridden and resource scare Darfur where rebels demanding autonomy are battling the government forces and Janjaweed Arab militias since 2003.
The militias are alleged to have committed mass murders, raped thousands of women and burnt villages and crops of Africans who inhabit the region.
Around four million people now survive on humanitarian aid in what the United Nations describes as the "largest humanitarian crisis in the world."
Apart from Williams, other members of the mission include Mart Nutt, an Estonian parliamentarian and member of the Council of Europe's European Commission against Racism and Intolerance, Bertrand Ramcharan, the former Acting and Deputy UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. The members are serving in their personal capacity.
Before leaving on the mission, Williams said that the team wanted to come up with "recommendations that we hope are implementable and not just grand thoughts".
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