{"id":223619,"date":"2026-02-12T12:38:47","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T10:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-concrete-action-urgently-needed-to-protect-civilians-and-advance-accountability\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T12:38:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T10:38:47","slug":"sudan-concrete-action-urgently-needed-to-protect-civilians-and-advance-accountability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-concrete-action-urgently-needed-to-protect-civilians-and-advance-accountability\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: Concrete Action Urgently Needed to Protect Civilians and Advance Accountability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\"><em>HRW Oral Statement &#8211; ID on the High Commissioner oral update on the human rights situation in and around El Fasher, in the context of the ongoing conflict in the Sudan &#8211; Intersessional meeting of the UN Human Rights Council <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"2\">Mr. President,<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"8\">We thank the High Commissioner for his update.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"10\">For three years, the world has failed civilians in Sudan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nFollow us on <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaIdDi8Bqbr263erhw1K\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WhatsApp<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/allafrica\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a> for the latest headlines<br \/>\n  <\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">What happened when El Fasher fell was a massacre foretold. The conflict has since shifted&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602120220.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Sudan\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/sudan\/\">Sudan<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HRW Oral Statement &#8211; ID on the High Commissioner oral update on the human rights situation in and around El Fasher, in the context of the ongoing conflict in the Sudan &#8211; Intersessional meeting of the UN Human Rights Council Mr. President, We thank the High Commissioner for his update. For three years, the world [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":223620,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[13948,6394,11688,258,256,13304,18426,6424,257,6202,254,4708,1613,8907],"class_list":["post-223619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-accountability","tag-action","tag-advance","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-civilians","tag-concrete","tag-needed","tag-news","tag-protect","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-urgently"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}