Sudan: UN Human Rights Council Adopts Resolution On El Obeid Amid Escalating Risk in North Kordofan

The United Nations Human Rights Council has adopted, without a vote, its first resolution focused specifically on El Obeid (A/HRC/62/L.48), the North Kordofan city facing an intensifying campaign of Rapid Support Forces (RSF) violence following 18 months of siege-like conditions. The resolution follows an emergency session convened after rights groups called on the Council to act early, in anticipation of harm to civilians rather than in response to it.

The Council strongly condemned the…