Situation of Human Rights in the Sudan

A/RES/49/198View PDF

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1995.

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14 versions · 1994–2021

This is an older version — the most recent is A/HRC/RES/S-32/1

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2021	A/HRC/RES/S-32/1	Situation of human rights in the Sudan	1,542	15%Compare
2010	A/HRC/RES/15/27	Situation of human rights in the Sudan	629	28%Compare
2009	A/HRC/RES/11/10	Situation of human rights in the Sudan	1,174	29%Compare
2008	A/HRC/RES/9/17	Situation of human rights in the Sudan	1,012	35%Compare
2008	A/HRC/RES/7/16	Situation of human rights in the Sudan	707	12%Compare

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Expresses its deep concern at the serious and continuing human rights violations in the Sudan, including summary executions, detentions without due process, forced displacement of persons, torture and forced labour;

Expresses its thanks to the Special Rapporteur for his most recent report; 10/

Urges the Government of the Sudan fully to respect human rights, and calls upon all parties to cooperate in order to ensure such respect;

Notes with displeasure the interference by the Government of the Sudan with the visit to the Sudan of the Special Rapporteur during September 1993, including the arrests of people who met with or tried to meet with the Special Rapporteur;

Calls upon the Government of the Sudan to comply with applicable international human rights instruments to which the Sudan is a party, in particular the International Covenants on Human Rights, 2/ the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, 3/ the Convention on the Rights of the Child,¹³ the Slavery Convention, as amended,¹⁴ and the Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade and Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery,¹⁵ and to ensure that all individuals in its territory and subject to its jurisdiction, including members of all religious and ethnic groups, enjoy fully the rights recognized in these instruments;

¹³Resolution 44/25, annex.

¹⁴United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 212, No. 2861.

¹⁵Ibid., vol. 266, No. 3822.

Urges the Government of the Sudan to cease immediately all aerial attacks and other attacks that are in violation of international humanitarian law, and to explain without delay the circumstances of the repeated air attacks on civilian targets in southern Sudan;

Notes with appreciation the ongoing regional efforts by heads of State of States members of the Intergovernmental Authority on Drought and Development (Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda) to assist parties to the conflict in the Sudan to reach a peaceful settlement;

Urges all parties to the conflict to agree to an immediate cease-fire and to cooperate fully with the present regional initiative of heads of State of States members of the Intergovernmental Authority on Drought and Development (Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda);

Strongly urges all parties to the hostilities to redouble their efforts to negotiate an equitable solution to the civil conflict to ensure respect for the human rights and fundamental freedoms of the Sudanese people, thereby creating the necessary conditions to end the exodus of Sudanese refugees to neighbouring countries and to facilitate their early return to the Sudan, and welcomes efforts to facilitate dialogue to that end among the parties;

Calls upon parties to the hostilities to respect fully the applicable provisions of international humanitarian law, including article 3 common to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949,¹⁶ and the Additional Protocols thereto, of 1977,¹⁷ to halt the use of weapons against the civilian population and to protect all civilians, including women, children and members of ethnic and religious minorities, from violations, including forcible displacement, arbitrary detention, ill-treatment, torture and summary executions, and deplores the consequences for innocent civilians of the use of land-mines by government and rebel forces alike;

¹⁶Ibid., vol. 75, Nos. 970-973.

¹⁷Ibid., vol. 1125, Nos. 17512 and 17513.

Again calls upon the Government of the Sudan and all parties to permit international agencies, humanitarian organizations and donor Governments to deliver humanitarian assistance to the civilian population and to cooperate with the initiatives of the Department of Humanitarian Affairs of the Secretariat to deliver humanitarian assistance to all persons in need;

Again calls again the Government of the Sudan to ensure a full, thorough and prompt investigation by the independent judicial inquiry commission of the killings of Sudanese nationals employed by foreign relief organizations and foreign Governments;

Welcomes the decision of the Commission on Human Rights to extend the mandate of the Special Rapporteur for an additional year;

Requests the Secretary-General to continue to provide the Special Rapporteur with all necessary assistance in the discharge of his mandate;

Calls upon the Government of the Sudan to extend its full and unreserved cooperation to the Special Rapporteur and to assist him in the ongoing discharge of his mandate, and, to this end, to take all necessary steps to ensure that the Special Rapporteur has free and unlimited access to any person in the Sudan with whom he wishes to meet, with no threats or reprisals;

Recommends the continued monitoring of the serious human rights situation in the Sudan and of the regional efforts to end the hostilities and human suffering in the south, and invites the Commission on Human Rights at its fifty-first session to give urgent attention to the situation of human rights in the Sudan;

Decides to continue its consideration of this question at its fiftieth session.

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