The UN Human Rights Council adopted a resolution establishing an Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the situation in Sudan, and the resolution stressed the urgent need to investigate who committed human rights violations and where they occurred.

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Edited by| Tony Wild

 

Africa section -  CJ journalist

 

New York - October,15,2023

 

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The draft resolution was sponsored by the United Kingdom, on behalf of Germany, Norway and the United States of America.

According to the official website of the UN, according to the resolution, the mission consists of three members with experience in international human rights and humanitarian law, to be appointed as soon as possible by the president of the human rights council for an initial period of one year.

The mission was tasked by the International Organization to investigate and establish the facts, circumstances and root causes of all allegations of human rights violations, abuses and violations of international humanitarian law - including those committed against refugees - and related crimes in the context of the ongoing armed conflict that began on April 15, 2023 between the Sudanese armed forces and the Rapid Support forces, as well as other warring parties.

The resolution called on the parties to the conflict to cooperate fully with the fact-finding mission in the performance of its work, and also called on the international community to provide full support to the mission in the implementation of its mandate.