Situation of Human Rights in the Sudan

A/RES/50/197View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1996.

What other versions does this mandate have?

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

What subjects does this mandate have?

14 subjects

Armed Incidents Civilian Persons Criminal Investigation Forced Labour Human Rights Human Rights in Armed Conflicts Human Rights Violations Humanitarian Assistance International Humanitarian Law International Instruments Landmines Religious Freedom Slavery Sudan

What’s in this document?

16 operative paragraphs

Expresses deep concern at the serious, widespread and continuing human rights violations in the Sudan, including extrajudicial killings and summary executions; detentions without due process; forced displacement of persons; enforced or involuntary disappearances; torture and other forms of cruel and unusual punishment; slavery, practices similar to slavery and forced labour; and denial of the freedoms of expression, association and peaceful assembly;

Urges the Government of the Sudan to investigate without delay the cases of slavery, servitude, slave trade, forced labour and similar practices brought to its attention and to take all appropriate measures to put an immediate end to these practices;

Takes note with appreciation of the interim report of the Special Rapporteur;

Welcomes the recommendation of the Special Rapporteur that human rights monitors be placed at the earliest possible date in such locations as will facilitate improved information flow and assessment and independent verification of reports on the situation of human rights in the Sudan;¹⁰

¹⁰Ibid., para. 82 (j).

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, 4/ the Slavery Convention, as amended,¹¹ and the Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade and Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery,¹² to implement those instruments to which it is a party 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 those instruments;

¹¹United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 212, No. 2861.

¹²Ibid., vol. 266, No. 3822.

Urges the Government of the Sudan to cease immediately all aerial attacks on civilian targets and other attacks that are in violation of international humanitarian law;

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 1949,¹³ and the Additional Protocols thereto, of 1977,¹⁴ 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 landmines by government and rebel forces alike;

¹³Ibid., vol. 75, Nos. 970-973.

¹⁴Ibid., 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 and United Nations agencies working in the field, in particular Operation Lifeline Sudan, to deliver humanitarian assistance to all persons in need;

Reiterates its call upon the Government of the Sudan to ensure a full, thorough and prompt investigation by an 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;

Deplores the continuing refusal of the Government of the Sudan to cooperate in any manner with the Special Rapporteur and the unacceptable threats against his person;

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;

Invites the Special Rapporteurs of the Commission on Human Rights on the questions of religious intolerance and freedom of expression to consult with the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Sudan and to consider and report on the situation in the Sudan, and calls upon the Government of the Sudan to extend to them its full cooperation, including inviting them to visit the Sudan;

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-second session, to give urgent attention to the situation of human rights in the Sudan;

Decides to continue its consideration of this question at its fifty-first session.

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