Speech Brief
UK Government says Sudan conflict involves grave human rights abuses
Key points
- Condemns torture, arbitrary detention, and sexual violence
- Calls for humanitarian access and compliance with international humanitarian law
TL;DR
- UK thanks the UN Fact-Finding Mission and calls the update harrowing
- Reports systematic arbitrary detention, torture, and sexual violence; urges accountability and survivor support
- Notes over 880 civilians reportedly killed by drone strikes this year and condemns targeting of civilian infrastructure
- Calls on Sudanese Armed Forces and Rapid Support Forces to comply with international humanitarian law and enable unimpeded humanitarian access; welcomes UN–AU cooperation including the Banjul Declaration
Original text
Mr President, The UK thanks the Fact-Finding Mission for its harrowing update. It is deplorable that as the conflict enters its fourth year, such grave violations and abuses of human rights continue unabated. Mr President, we are deeply alarmed by what we have heard today. Systematic arbitrary detention and torture devastate civilian lives. Rape and other forms of sexual violence are abhorrent and must end. Survivors...
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- Fact-finding Mission
- Banjul Declaration
- Sudan
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