Annan demands U.N. rights body acts on Darfur
United Nations chief Kofi Annan demanded on Tuesday that the world body’s human rights watchdog, meeting in special session on Sudan’s Darfur, send a clear message that the “nightmare” of violence had to stop. “The people in Darfur cannot afford to wait another day. The violence must stop. The killings and other gross violations of human rights must end,” Annan said in a statement to the Geneva-based Human Rights Council. Full Story