{"id":238061,"date":"2026-07-03T18:32:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T16:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-risk-of-imminent-atrocities-in-and-around-el-obeid-requires-urgent-action\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T18:32:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T16:32:23","slug":"sudan-risk-of-imminent-atrocities-in-and-around-el-obeid-requires-urgent-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-risk-of-imminent-atrocities-in-and-around-el-obeid-requires-urgent-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: Risk of Imminent Atrocities in and Around El Obeid Requires Urgent Action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"8\"><em>HRW Oral Statement &#8211; Urgent Debate &#8211; HRC62<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"50\"><em>This statement was delivered by Human Rights Watch at the 62nd regular session of the UN Human Rights Council during an<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/webtv.un.org\/en\/asset\/k13\/k13il95wta\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>urgent debate<\/em><\/a> <em>on the human rights situation in and around El Obeid, North Kordofan in the context of the ongoing conflict in the Sudan held on July 3, 2026.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">Human Rights Watch welcomes the convening of this urgent debate, and use of this Council&#8217;s prevention mandate to respond to atrocity risk warnings by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sg\/en\/content\/sg\/statements\/2026-06-18\/statement-attributable-the-spokesperson-for-the-secretary-general-sudan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UN Secretary General<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ohchr.org\/en\/press-releases\/2026\/06\/sudan-imminent-offensive-el-obeid-must-be-halted-turk-warns-catastrophic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">High&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202607030441.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; Urgent Debate &#8211; HRC62 This statement was delivered by Human Rights Watch at the 62nd regular session of the UN Human Rights Council during an urgent debate on the human rights situation in and around El Obeid, North Kordofan in the context of the ongoing conflict in the Sudan held on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[6394,258,256,5815,15637,257,13952,7163,9590,254,4708,1613,11318],"class_list":["post-238061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-action","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-atrocities","tag-imminent","tag-news","tag-obeid","tag-requires","tag-risk","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-urgent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238061","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=238061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}