Geneva – Human Rights Council – 3 October 2025
During the 60th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, the Sudanese Human Rights Organizations Coalition and its international allies submitted a written statement addressing the escalating humanitarian catastrophe in Sudan, with a particular focus on the grave violations and atrocities committed by the Sudanese Armed Forces against civilians.
The statement affirmed that the Sudanese army has perpetrated war crimes and crimes against humanity, including the indiscriminate shelling of residential areas, direct attacks on hospitals, schools, and markets, and the systematic use of arbitrary detention, enforced disappearances, and torture. It further denounced ethnically motivated violations that have claimed hundreds of lives and displaced millions. The coalition highlighted that more than 30 million Sudanese, half of them women and children, are now facing acute food insecurity as a direct result of military sieges and the obstruction of humanitarian aid.
The statement also underscored the army’s direct responsibility for destroying Sudan’s healthcare and education infrastructure, creating a tragic reality that threatens both the present and future of generations. The coalition urged the Council to take urgent action to condemn these crimes, activate international mechanisms of investigation and accountability, including referral of the situation to the International Criminal Court, and impose targeted sanctions on the military leadership in Port Sudan.
Concluding its statement, the coalition stressed that ongoing international silence only emboldens the Sudanese army to commit further atrocities. It called on the international community to shoulder its legal and moral responsibilities by ensuring the protection of civilians, guaranteeing unhindered humanitarian access, and working to end the suffering of the Sudanese people.