The U.N. Commission on Human Rights last week adopted a watered-down resolution addressing alleged atrocities in Sudan's Darfur region and rejected a U.S. move to vote on the more strongly worded, original draft resolution it had co-sponsored with the European Union (Agence France-Presse, April 23). It also decided to appoint an independent expert on the situation of human rights in Sudan for a period of one year. Fifty members of the U.N. rights body voted for the weaker resolution, which was drafted as a compromise between the European Union and a bloc of African states.