Sudan: UN Rights Council Should Continue Efforts to Advance Accountability for Ongoing Atrocities

Human Rights Watch Statement on the UN Human Rights Council 56th session Item 2: Interactive Dialogue on the oral update by the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission for the Sudan

Mr. President,

Atrocities continue to be committed by all parties to the conflict in Sudan.

In El Fasher, witnesses describe shelling in civilian neighborhoods and attacks on health facilities, resulting in the killing of, and injury to, hundreds of civilians.

Satellite imagery analysis suggests targeted…