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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Murder, torture, rape. The most serious crimes against the civilian population are being committed in Sudan. Now the UN Human Rights Council has dealt with the situation.[more]]>
The Human Rights Council of the United Nations held today a day-long special session dedicated to hundreds of murders in a hospital in Darfur and other atrocities in Sudan that are blamed on the paramilitary forces in that African country. They are units of the Rapid Support Force that clash with the regular Sudanese army in the northeast of Sudan.
Human Rights Council calls for probe into El-Fasher killings
The UN Human Rights Council on Friday adopted a resolution calling on the UN’s Independent International Fact-Finding Mission for Sudan to investigate what it described as "appalling" atrocities in El-Fasher, following reports of ethnically targeted killings and widespread sexual violence. The resolution issued a strong condemnation of the violence, citing mounting evidence of mass murder, summary executions and the use of rape as a weapon of wa…
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