The Committee for Justice (CFJ) has warned in a written statement submitted to the United Nations Human Rights Council during its sixtieth session, held from 8 September to 8 October 2025, of the grave and rapidly deteriorating human rights and humanitarian situation in Sudan since the outbreak of armed conflict on 15 April 2023.
The statement highlighted that civilians in Darfur, Kordofan, Khartoum, and other conflict-affected regions continue to face unrelenting violence and repression committed by warring parties.
CFJ’s documentation between January and June 2025 reveals widespread patterns of arbitrary detention, enforced disappearances, torture, sexual violence, forced labor, ethnically targeted killings, and systematic attacks on human rights defenders, all carried out in an environment of impunity and the collapse of judicial institutions.
The statement noted the documentation of at least 31 cases of arbitrary detention and 23 enforced disappearances of human rights defenders -including lawyers, doctors, journalists, and humanitarian workers- during this period. Extrajudicial killings, particularly in Darfur, have targeted marginalized groups such as the Masalit, Fur, and Zaghawa, with testimonies revealing executions, mass killings, and deliberate acts of terror. The conflict has displaced over 13 million people, including 8.6 million internally displaced and more than 3.2 million forced to flee to neighboring countries, while deliberate obstruction of humanitarian aid has left millions facing famine and medical shortages.
We emphasized that the UN FFM on Sudan has been indispensable in documenting violations, preserving evidence, and laying the groundwork for accountability. Failure to renew its mandate at this stage would risk halting ongoing documentation efforts and erasing critical evidence.
The statement concluded with urgent recommendations, calling on the Human Rights Council to renew the mandate of the FFM for at least one additional year, ensure adequate resources for its work, transmit findings to relevant accountability mechanisms, including the UN Security Council and ICC, and support the establishment of the transitional justice processes.
CFJ stressed that renewing the FFM’s mandate is not only a procedural necessity but a moral imperative, as the people of Sudan deserve justice, truth, reparations, and guarantees that perpetrators are held accountable, and member states of the Council bear responsibility to uphold and safeguard these rights.
