US EditionUN human rights body holds special session on Sudan after hundreds killed in Darfur’s el-Fasher
- On Friday, Nov. 14, 2025, the U.N. Human Rights Council held a one-day special session in Geneva to spotlight hospital killings and debated a draft resolution for independent experts to investigate Rapid Support Forces abuses in el-Fasher.
- Last month the RSF seized el-Fasher, the capital of North Darfur, and rampaged through the Saudi Hospital, killing more than 450 people, amid the 2023 war with Sudan's military.
- Mission member Mona Rishmawi told the session investigators have collected evidence of unspeakable atrocities, deliberate killings, torture, rape, abduction for ransom, arbitrary detention and enforced disappearances, all at the mass scale, while RSF fighters reportedly went house to house, killing civilians and committing sexual assaults.
- The council cannot compel action but can document abuses for possible ICC use; a European-led draft resolution urges the existing fact-finding team to identify perpetrators in el-Fasher, now deemed a crime scene.
- WHO reports at least 40,000 killed and the U.N. says 12 million displaced, while U.N. officials warned el-Fasher atrocities were foreseen and preventable but not stopped.
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On Friday, a fact-finding mission was commissioned by the UN Human Rights Council to identify all those responsible for alleged violations of international law in El Fasher, Sudan, in order to bring them to justice.
Reports of murder and other war crimes are growing in Al-Fashir in Sudan. The UN Human Rights Council has now adopted a resolution in a special session.
The United Nations Human Rights Council has convened in Geneva for an emergency meeting on the dire situation in the Sudanese city of Al-Fasher. UN human rights chief Volker Türk, in his speech, strongly criticized the lack of international intervention in Sudan. "My office has issued 20 statements on Al-Fasher in the past year alone," Türk said. "We warned of the stifling, suffocating siege. We warned of the spreading famine. And we warned that…
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