UN agrees mission to Darfur

December 14, 2006

The new U.N. human rights watchdog agreed on Wednesday (December 13) to send a high-level mission to Sudan's Darfur to probe allegations of worsening abuse in what activists called a "timid" first step to confront the crisis. The 47-state United Nations' Human Rights Council, after a first special session on Darfur, approved a consensus plan that called for the dispatch of five "highly qualified" team members along with the world body's special Sudan investigator.