Friday, the top U.N. human rights official called for an independent investigation into possible war crimes by both sides in the conflict.

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Scott Campbell,the chief of the African Section of the U.N.Human Rights Office, says these atrocities are committed on a massive scale.

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Guinea Bissau has Africa's second lowest rating on the U.N.'s Human Development Index measuring life expectancy,education, and standards of living.

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Al-Qahtani said the United Nations responded to their letters and that U.N. human rights investigators issued opinions on a few of the cases.

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Although these territories are geographically part of Sudan, the population has faced "exclusion, marginalization and discriminatory practices that have resulted in their opposition to the Sudanese government, " according to the U.N. human rights office.

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Press for stronger engagement by the Council and other U.N. human rights mechanisms in Haiti, Somalia and the Democratic Republic of Congo and partnered with Afghanistan to build international support for a resolution on preventing attacks on Afghan school children, especially girls.

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