The Committee for Justice and AWAFY Sudanese Organization delivered a joint oral statement during the 60th Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, drawing urgent attention to the grave and escalating human rights crisis in Sudan.
Speaking under Agenda Item 2, Interactive dialogue on the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Sudan, we described how civilians across Sudan continue to endure arbitrary detention, enforced disappearances, torture, sexual violence, forced labor, and ethnically targeted killings. Nearly thirteen million people have been displaced, while millions more face famine-like conditions as hospitals, schools, and essential food supplies are deliberately attacked or cut off. Human rights defenders, lawyers, and journalists face relentless reprisals, including torture, unfair trials, enforced disappearance, and killings in custody.
Darfur remains one of the hardest-hit regions, where communities such as the Masalit, Bartee, Fur, and Zaghawa have been systematically targeted. In El Fasher, a siege by the Rapid Support Forces since May 2024 has left children and other civilians dying of hunger, with more than fifty-eight deaths documented in a single week due to the absence of grain and other vital supplies. Humanitarian workers and aid convoys are routinely attacked, looted, and obstructed.
CFJ and AWAFY emphasized that the UN Fact-Finding Mission on Sudan plays an essential role in documenting these violations, identifying those responsible, and preserving evidence for future accountability mechanisms. Ending its mandate now would leave victims unprotected and allow perpetrators to act with impunity.
We therefore called on the Human Rights Council to renew the mandate of the Fact-Finding Mission for at least two more years and to ensure that it is fully resourced.
