Situation of Human Rights in the Sudan

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1994.

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14 versions · 1994–2021

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

Takes note of paragraph 24 of the report of the Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on the situation of human rights in the Sudan, in which he stated that the Government of the Sudan had cooperated with the him by arranging the meetings he had requested and further facilitated visits to the locations he had wished to see;

Notes with concern the reprisals taken by the Government of the Sudan against those who contacted or attempted to contact the Special Rapporteur;

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

Calls upon the Government of the Sudan to comply with applicable international human rights instruments, in particular the International Covenants on Human Rights and the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, to which the Sudan 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 the rights recognized in those instruments;

Calls upon all 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, 8/ and the Additional Protocols thereto, of 1977, 9/ to halt the use of weapons against the civilian populationand to protect all civilians from violations, including arbitrary detention, ill-treatment, torture and summary execution;

Expresses its appreciation to the humanitarian organizations for their work in helping displaced persons and drought and conflict victims in the Sudan, and calls upon all parties to protect humanitarian relief workers;

Calls upon the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions again to address the killing of Sudanese nationals employed by foreign government relief organizations;

Calls upon the Government of the Sudan to explain fully the actions to obstruct the efforts of the Special Rapporteur, especially the ill-treatment afforded those who contacted or attempted to contact him;

Also calls upon 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 government relief organizations, to bring to justice those responsible for the killings and to provide just compensation to the families of the victims;

Further calls upon the Government of the Sudan to investigate and explain without delay the circumstances behind the air attacks on 12 and 23 November 1993;

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, and thereby create the necessary conditions to end the exodus of Sudanese refugees to neighbouring countries and facilite their early return to the Sudan, and welcomes efforts to facilitate dialogue among the parties to that end;

Notes with appreciation, in this connection, the current regional efforts of heads of State 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;

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

Recommends that the serious human rights situation in the Sudan be monitored, and invites the Commission on Human Rights to give urgent attention to this questionat its fiftieth session;

Decides to continue its consideration of this question at its forty-ninth session.

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