Civilians still abused with impunity in Darfur, says UN

Civilians are still murdered and women sexually violated in Darfur, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights said Monday accusing the Sudanese Government of inaction.

Speaking to reporters in Geneva, Louise Arbour, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said: "Human rights violations seemed to be continuing of the same nature and practically on the same scale," Louise Arbour.

Darfur was still a matter of "grave preoccupation." After four-and a-half-years of conflict in the west of Sudan, she said there had seemed to have been "very little progress on national efforts on the ground to combat the culture of impunity." Read more >>>>