The Committee for Justice (CFJ) submitted an oral statement to the United Nations Human Rights Council, under Agenda Item 2, during the Enhanced Oral Update of the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission for the Sudan. In its statement, CFJ warned that civilians in Sudan continue to face serious violations of international human rights and humanitarian law, including forced displacement, killings by bombing and shelling, arbitrary detention, enforced disappearance, torture, and denial of medical care.
Between March and June 2026, CFJ monitored more than 13,828 violations and incidents affecting civilians. The organization underlined that attacks on civilian and protected facilities remain deeply alarming, including the strike on El-Daein Teaching Hospital in East Darfur, which killed at least 64 civilians and injured around 113 others, and an attack on a wedding celebration in Kutum, which killed 56 civilians, including 17 children.
CFJ also drew the Council’s attention to detention patterns and detention conditions. In El Fasher, CFJ documented the detention of 2,377 persons, including civilians, children, women and doctors, across several detention sites. In Diqris Prison in Nyala, around 19,500 detainees were held in a facility designed for a maximum of 4,500 prisoners, amid severe overcrowding, food shortages, denial of medical care and deaths in custody.
The statement further raised concern about recent developments in Kordofan. In the first two days of June, more than 2,600 civilians were displaced in South Kordofan, while at least 67 civilians were killed in two separate drone attacks in North and West Kordofan, including eight children and two women.
CFJ called on the Human Rights Council to ensure adequate resources for investigations and evidence preservation, and to translate the Banjul Joint Declaration between the UN and African fact-finding mechanisms on Sudan into concrete protection and accountability outcomes.
“The Banjul Joint Declaration must serve as an operational framework for coordinated investigations, victim-centered accountability and stronger protection for civilians,” CFJ said. “It should not remain a political commitment without practical consequences for victims, survivors and communities at risk.”
CFJ reaffirmed the need for sustained international and regional action to preserve evidence, identify those responsible for grave violations, and support pathways to accountability, reparations and non-recurrence.