The United Nations Human Rights Council will vote next week on a resolution addressing Sudan’s civil war, calling for an immediate ceasefire.
The draft resolution proposes the creation of an independent international monitoring mechanism to ensure compliance with any ceasefire agreement.
Diplomatic sources said the text, stretching across 25 paragraphs, captures the depth of Sudan’s worsening humanitarian and security crisis since April 2023.
It accuses both warring parties of grave breaches of international humanitarian law.
The document highlights ethnically driven violence and gender-based assaults as mounting evidence of atrocities committed during more than two years of war.
The Sudanese junta government in Port Sudan has dismissed international scrutiny, rejecting the expired mandate of a fact-finding committee imposed through a British-led draft.
Port Sudan argues that the body’s establishment ignored its perspective, and continues to resist international oversight, citing sovereignty and external bias.
The draft resolution categorises assaults on civilians as war crimes and crimes against humanity, demanding referral of perpetrators to the International Criminal Court.
It also insists that accountability must be enforced, warning that impunity risks deepening the war and further tearing Sudanese society apart.
The Council will deliberate in Geneva, where divisions among member states loom over the best path to confront Sudan’s crisis.
The conflict, raging since mid-April 2023, has killed thousands and displaced millions, leaving a nation fractured and a people adrift.
The looming vote offers a fragile chance at justice, though consensus remains uncertain, echoing the fractured fate of Sudan itself.
