By Patrick Goodenough - CNSNews.com Managing Editor(Update: The Human Rights Council on Wednesday passed a compromise resolution that expressed "concern regarding the seriousness of the human rights and humanitarian situation in Darfur" and called for five "highly qualified persons," along with a U.N. expert on human rights in Sudan, to investigate. The resolution did not criticize the Sudanese government.)
(CNSNews.com) - U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan has urged the world body's human rights watchdog in Geneva to send a clear message that the "nightmare" in Sudan's Darfur must stop, but for many of the nations considering the crisis, his appeal seemed to have fallen on deaf ears.