Top UN officials say the world body must abandon efforts to pressure Sudan to accept UN peacekeepers in Darfur.

UN Sudan envoy Jan Pronk says the existing African Union force should instead be strengthened.

Sudan has always argued that the AU should remain in charge of peacekeeping in Darfur, rather than the UN.

Outgoing deputy secretary general Mark Malloch Brown has meanwhile said the US and UK's use of "megaphone diplomacy" is almost "counterproductive" in Sudan.

The cash-strapped and poorly equipped AU force currently stationed in Darfur was meant to leave at the end of the month but its mission was recently prolonged until the year's end............

read more here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/5390974.stm

I always trust you to keep me up to date with the news
Damn americans, only ever in it for the oil....if some is ever found in ireland im moving

Is it your aim to make a pointless and ignorant political thread every day?

Define pointless and ignorant? You hate black people in Darfur is that it?

That's blatantly it.

Get fucked little bitch.

Okay not only is this thread political and ignorant, it lacks any logic.

Maybe I will.



Thank you.

Why is it ignorant and lacks logic? UN won't help Darfur when it's clearing suffering ethnical genocides.


Die, Aid infested whore.

Homophobic skank.

I'd suggest if you want to keep this thread open that you stop throwing out uncalled for insults to each other and talk about the topic.

When the first post is calling me ignorant about the issue without backing it up deserves to be called whatever shit names theydeserve!

I love how you act all the time as you're the better than American's. You always talk about how American's are stupid and lame, then you go around telling people "die, aid infested whore". Imagine how stupid that makes you look...pretty stupid. What makes you think anyone is going to want to take you seroiusly if you talk to people like that?

you're stupid

i'm not trying to make a fight but i'm getting tired of this. but sometimes its good to know stuff:) so i dunno. its not that annoying



yup. like totally

Getting abit touche and guilty there aren't you? This piece of news article (from BBC) is more directed at UN.

moggymurderer, what happened to that lovely, fluffy cute thread that you promised me you were gonna make next ?
I am disappointed.

Hold on!!!

Listen kittyfuck...Darfur isnt America's fault. Arabs have been fucking that place for years. Second of all, FUCK DARFUR. Everyone wants people to get involved with Darfur, but whne we need to fight a war to defend our country (and a great one at that) your Darfur bastards get uptight.

totally agree

*clears throat*
United Nations. Not just the US.

A very American attitude.

Too...much...information...for such...a small....brain...


I don't th th th...think... I can...t t take it....

Calm down.... read some of this, more stuff from "powerful UN"!!!

tandards of human rights in the Palestinian territories have fallen to intolerable new levels, says a UN expert on the Mid-East conflict.

John Dugard said Israel was largely to blame for turning Gaza into "a prison" and "throwing away the key".

He also criticised Canada, Europe and the US for cutting funds to Palestinian Authority, run by the Hamas militant group which does not recognise Israel.

An Israeli official said the statement was unrealistic and over-simplified.

Mr Dugard, UN special rapporteur on Palestinian human rights, said three-quarters of Palestinians in Gaza now depended on food aid - a result, he added, of Israeli military raids, blockades and demolitions.

"I hope that my portrayal... will trouble the consciences of those accustomed to turning a blind eye and a deaf ear to the suffering of the Palestinian people," Mr Dugard told the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.

Unpunished

The South African lawyer was appointed in 2001.


Palestinian people are punished for having democratically elected a regime unacceptable to Israel, the US and the EU
John Dugard

The situation - in the wake of Israel's response to the capture of a soldier by militants from Gaza during a cross-border raid - is worse than at any time during my mandate, Mr Dugard said.

More than 100 civilians have been killed in army raids and bombardments in the Gaza Strip.

"What Israel chooses to describe as collateral damage to the civilian population is in fact indiscriminate killing prohibited by international law," he said.

John Dugard, UN special rapporteur on human rights for the Palestinian territories
UN special rapporteur John Dugard was sent on a fact-finding mission
Mr Dugard also criticised the embargo on funding to the Palestinian Authority since the victory by Hamas early this year.

"Israel violates international law as expounded by the Security Council and the International Court of Justice and goes unpunished," he said.

"But the Palestinian people are punished for having democratically elected a regime unacceptable to Israel, the US and the EU.

"In effect, the Palestinian people have been subjected to economic sanctions - the first time an occupied people has been so treated," he said.

Omissions

Mr Dugard's brief to investigate Israeli human rights violations against Palestinians has led Israel and its US ally to condemn his reports as one-sided.

The US ambassador to the UN in Geneva cautioned against taking Mr Dugard's view out of context and Israeli envoy Itzhak Levanon dismissed his findings.

"This report is characterised by errors of omission as well as distortions of both fact and law," Mr Levanon said.

He said it ignored what he called the daily experience of Israelis facing Palestinian terrorism.

Mr Dugard is a South African national and won his reputation as a civil rights lawyer during the apartheid era in the 1980s.

*dies*

Okay, pictorial form then...

This is Darfur







This Palestine

I really don't think it is necessary to post those pics so openly like that.
You made me feel sick.
If you really must post them please put the links.

those pictures are disturbing and make me want to puke.

Real life is horrible.

That's not an excuse.
You're such a jerk.

Sorry for bursting your lil "paradies bubble".

are you chinese or japanese^ if your chinese then you have your own problems to deal with :cough communism cough:

How do you know he's either?

Why? I live in New Zealand. So because my original home land is ravaged by a dictatorship I can't critisis other shitty goverment and United Nation? Get a clue fucker!