Situation of Human Rights in the Sudan

A/RES/52/140View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1998.

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?

15 subjects

Civilization Disappearance of Persons Forced Labour Human Rights Monitoring Human Rights Violations Humanitarian Assistance Information Dissemination International Humanitarian Law Peace Research Political Prisoners Relief Personnel Slavery Special Rapporteurs Sudan Torture and Other Cruel Treatment

What’s in this document?

23 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;

Expresses its outrage at the use by all parties to the conflict of military force to disrupt or attack relief efforts, and calls for an end to such practices and for those responsible for such actions to be brought to justice;

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

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

¹¹Ibid., vol. 266, No. 3822.

Encourages the Special Investigation Committee on Allegations of Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances and Reported Cases of Slavery to redouble its efforts to comply with previous General Assembly resolutions in which the Assembly urged 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 those practices;

Urges the Government of the Sudan to publicize the existence and activities of the Special Investigation Committee, to guarantee that those who provide information to it will not suffer any negative consequences as a result and to involve local authorities in its activities;

Also urges the Government of the Sudan to provide adequate security for all special rapporteurs and to live up to its pledge to provide logistical support to national, regional and international organizations that join the investigations of alleged cases of involuntary disappearance and slavery;¹²

¹²See A/52/510, para. 73.

Further urges the Government of the Sudan and all parties to the conflict to grant international human rights and humanitarian organizations and independent observers free and unimpeded access to all areas where violations have been reported;

Continues to urge the placement of human rights monitors, within existing resources, in such locations as will facilitate improved information flow and assessment and independent verification of reports, with particular attention to violations and abuses of human rights in areas of armed conflict, as recommended by the Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on the situation of human rights in the Sudan;¹³

¹³Ibid., para. 75.

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 1949,¹⁴ and the Additional Protocols thereto, of 1977,¹⁵ 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;

¹⁴United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 75, Nos. 970-973.

¹⁵Ibid., 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 civilian populations to deliver humanitarian assistance;

Expresses its hope that all parties to the civil war will negotiate seriously at the peace talks sponsored by the Intergovernmental Authority on Development when they resume at Nairobi early in 1998, with the view that an end to the civil war would be an important first step towards the elimination of human rights violations in the Sudan;

Urges the Government of the Sudan to release all political detainees, to cease all acts of torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, to close down all clandestine or unacknowledged detention centres, to ensure that all accused persons are held in ordinary police or prison custody where family members and lawyers can visit them and to ensure that such persons receive prompt, just and fair trials under internationally recognized standards;

Again urges Sudanese authorities to take all steps necessary to respect the human rights of persons belonging to the most vulnerable groups in the society, the women, children and ethnic and religious minorities living in the conflict zones, as recommended by the Special Rapporteur;¹⁶

¹⁶A/51/490, para. 52 (d).

Calls for an immediate halt to the inhumane and unjustified practice of aerial bombardment of civilian targets by the Government of the Sudan;

Welcomes the promise given by the Government of the Sudan to the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs in the Sudan to allow relief flights unimpeded access to people in need, and expresses its hope that such flights will now be permitted to take place without danger or obstacles;

Encourages the Government of the Sudan to work actively for the eradication of practices which are directed against and particularly violate the human rights of women and girls, especially in the light of the Beijing Declaration and the Platform for Action adopted by the Fourth World Conference on Women;¹⁷

¹⁷Report of the Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, 4-15 September 1995 (United Nations publication, Sales No.E.96.IV.13), resolution 1, annexes I and II.

Welcomes the most recent visit by the Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on the situation of human rights in the Sudan and his interim report on the situation of human rights in the Sudan;7

Extends its full support to the Special Rapporteur, and encourages him to continue to pursue a broad dialogue with the Government of the Sudan and all other parties which he deems relevant to the situation of human rights in the Sudan, with a view to addressing the concerns expressed in the relevant resolutions of the General Assembly and the Commission on Human Rights, and to visit the Sudan and to travel in the Sudan, as necessary;

Encourages visits to the Sudan by the Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression and the Working Group on Contemporary Forms of Slavery of the Subcommission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities of the Commission on Human Rights, who have both been invited by the Government of the Sudan, and requests both to report to the Commission and to the General Assembly on their findings;

Welcomes the decision of the Commission on Human Rights to extend the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Sudan for an additional year;

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

Recommends the continued monitoring of the serious human rights situation in the Sudan, urges continuation of the regional efforts to end the hostilities and human suffering in the south, and invites the Commission on Human Rights, at its fifty-fourth 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-third session.

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