Situation of Human Rights in the Sudan

A/RES/51/112View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1997.

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?

19 subjects

Ceasefires Civilian Persons Commissions of Inquiry Criminal Investigation Disappearance of Persons Ethnic and Racial Groups Human Rights Human Rights in Armed Conflicts Human Rights Monitoring Human Rights Violations Humanitarian Assistance Minorities Religious Intolerance Rights of the Child Slavery Sudan Sudanese Refugees Torture and Other Cruel Treatment Women's Rights

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20 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, violations of the rights of women and children, 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, denial of the freedoms of expression, association and peaceful assembly and discrimination based on religion;

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,¹⁰and the Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade and Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery,¹¹to 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;

¹⁰United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 212, No. 2861.

¹¹Ibid., vol. 266, No. 3822.

Urges the Government of the Sudan to ensure that all cases of slavery, servitude, slave trade, forced labour and similar practices brought to its attention are investigated and all appropriate measures are implemented to put an immediate end to these practices;

Expresses its hope that the Special Investigation Committee on Allegations of Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances and Reported Cases of Slavery will contribute effectively to improving the human rights situation in the Sudan;

Welcomes the statement by the Government of the Sudan, as reported by the Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on the situation of human rights in the Sudan,¹²in which it pledged its logistical support to national, regional and international organizations that join the investigations of alleged cases of involuntary disappearance and slavery, and, accordingly, calls upon the Government to grant international human rights and humanitarian organizations and independent observers free and unimpeded access to all areas where these violations have been reported;

¹²See A/51/490, chap. III, sect. A, para. 43 (b).

Welcomes the interim report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Sudan to the General Assembly and his recent report to the Commission on Human Rights,¹³and expresses its continuing support for his work;

¹³E/CN.4/1996/62.

Continues to urge the placement of human rights monitors in such locations as will facilitate improved information flow and assessment and independent verification of reporting, with particular attention to violations and abuses of human rights in areas of armed conflict, as recommended by the Special Rapporteur;¹⁴

¹⁴See A/51/490, chap. III, sect. B, para. 52 (c).

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 1949,¹⁵and the Additional Protocols thereto, of 1977,¹⁶to 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;

¹⁵United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 75, Nos. 970-973.

¹⁶Ibid., vol. 1125, Nos. 17512 and 17513.

Again calls upon the Government of the Sudan and all parties to allow Operation Lifeline Sudan, international agencies, humanitarian organizations and donor Governments unimpeded access to the civilian population so as to permit the delivery of humanitarian assistance to all persons in need;

Welcomes the reported release of female detainees with children and any other activities designed to assist such persons, and encourages the Government of the Sudan to work actively for the eradication of practices that are directed against and in particular violate the human rights of women and girls, in full cooperation with the international organizations active in the Sudan and focusing on the question, including the office of the United Nations Children's Fund in Khartoum;

Urges the Government of the Sudan to take all steps necessary to improve the situation of the most vulnerable groups of the society, the women, children and ethnic and religious minorities living in the conflict zones, as recommended by the Special Rapporteur;¹⁷

¹⁷See A/51/490, chap. III, sect. B, para. 52 (d).

Urges all parties to the civil war in the Sudan to seek a negotiated settlement to the conflict immediately, and encourages the parties to cooperate with efforts by the Intergovernmental Authority on Drought and Development to assist the warring parties to put an end to the conflict and hasten a return of Sudanese refugees residing in neighbouring countries;

Reiterates its call upon the Government of the Sudan to ensure a full, thorough and prompt investigation by an independent judicial commission of inquiry into the killings of Sudanese nationals employed by foreign relief organizations and foreign Governments;

Urges the Government of the Sudan to cooperate fully with all United Nations agencies, international humanitarian organizations, human rights organizations and independent observers to improve the situation of human rights in the Sudan, as recommended by the Special Rapporteur;¹⁸

¹⁸Ibid., sect. B, para. 52 (e).

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;

Welcomes the approaches to the Special Rapporteurs of the Commission on Human Rights by the Government of the Sudan, and again calls upon the Government of the Sudan to extend its full and unreserved cooperation to the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Sudan and to the thematic Special Rapporteurs, to assist them in the ongoing discharge of their mandates and, to this end, to take all necessary steps to ensure that the Special Rapporteurs have free and unlimited access to the whole territory of the Sudan and to any person in the Sudan with whom they wish 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-third 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-second session.

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