S/2024/826 SC

The Security Council, Reaffirming all its previous resolutions, presidential statements and press statements concerning the situation in Sudan, and reiterating its strong commitment to the sovereignty, unity, independence, and territorial integrity of Sudan, Expressing concern and condemning reports of human rights violations and abuses and violations of international humanitarian law, including those referenced in the Secretary-General’s report on recommendations for the protection of civilians in Sudan (S/2024/759), Condemning attacks perpetrated against civilians, as well as reports of armed violence and atrocities, ethnically motivated killings, sexual and gender-based violence, including conflict-related sexual violence, and the destruction and looting of livelihoods and homes by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in and around Al Jazirah State, El Fasher in North Darfur, Khartoum and El Geneina in West Darfur, Expressing concern at all attacks against civilians and civilian objects and infrastructure, including hospitals and other medical and humanitarian facilities, and underscoring the inviolability of diplomatic and consular premises and United Nations (UN) premises, and underlining that an immediate nationwide cessation of hostilities is the most effective way to protect civilians, as envisaged in the Jeddah talks, Recalling the importance of the protection of children, as set out in relevant Security Council resolutions, and expressing deep concern at the reported increase in verified violations and abuses against children in Sudan, including killing and maiming, recruitment and use, abduction, sexual violence, attacks on schools and hospitals and child detention as documented in the Secretary-General’s annual report on children and armed conflict (S/2024/384), and urging all parties to the conflict to end and prevent all violations and abuses against children, Expressing concern over the dire humanitarian situation in Sudan, including reports of food insecurity at the most acute levels and the risk of it spreading across further parts of the country, reaffirming the obligations of all parties to the conflict to comply with international humanitarian law and, as applicable, human rights law including with regard to the protection of civilians, including respecting and protecting humanitarian personnel and consignments used for humanitarian relief operations, and urging all parties to the conflict to protect civilian infrastructure, which is critical to the delivery of humanitarian assistance, including for the provision of essential services in line with resolution 2573 (2021), reiterating the obligation to allow and facilitate rapid and unhindered humanitarian access in accordance with international humanitarian law, recalling the UN guiding principles of humanitarian assistance including humanity, impartiality, neutrality and independence, Welcoming collective efforts to date, including by the UN and African Union, as well as key local, regional and international partners, to press the parties to the conflict to uphold their obligations under international humanitarian and, as applicable, human rights law to protect civilians, and to decisively advance the shared goal of reaching an agreement on a comprehensive, nationwide ceasefire, Recognising the importance of building the conditions on the ground for a ceasefire and sustainable peace, and the need for immediate action to reduce the impact of the conflict on civilians, taking note of the conclusions in the Secretary- General’s report and his assessment of the conditions on the ground, 1. Condemns the continued assault by the RSF in El Fasher, and demands that the RSF immediately halt all its attacks against civilians in Darfur, Al Jazirah State and Sennar State and elsewhere in Sudan, and calls on the parties to the conflict to immediately cease hostilities and engage, in good faith, in dialogue to agree steps to de-escalate the conflict with the aim of urgently agreeing a national ceasefire; 2. Demands that the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and RSF honour and fully implement their commitments made in the Jeddah Declaration of Commitment to Protect the Civilians of Sudan, including, inter alia, to take all feasible precautions to avoid and minimise civilian harm, with an aim to vacate urban centers, including civilian houses, to refrain from using civilians as human shields, to safeguard the needs and necessities indispensable to the survival of the civilian population and to ensure their protection against looting, ransacking and ravaging, to ensure checkpoints are not used to infringe the freedom of movement of civilians and humanitarian actors, to refrain from the recruitment and the use of children in hostilities, to refrain from the attacking, destroying, misappropriating or looting of relief supplies, installations, material, units and vehicles, and demands that the parties to the conflict urgently comply with their obligations under international law, including international humanitarian law and, as applicable, human rights law; 3. Calls on the parties to the conflict to ensure that civilian objects, including hospitals and other medical facilities, schools, places of worship and humanitarian facilities, as well as humanitarian and medical personnel, including UN and associated personnel, and their means of transport, are protected from attack, consistent with international humanitarian law, and further calls on the parties to the conflict to refrain from attacks targeted at the facilities of the UN and associated UN personnel, including both national and locally recruited personnel; 4. Calls on the parties to take urgent steps to halt and prevent conflict-related sexual violence and to ensure that this is not used as a tactic of war and to improve protection and access to services for survivors; 5. Requests that the Secretary-General, informed by consultations with the Sudanese Transitional Sovereign Council and other parties to the conflict, as appropriate, as well as the African Union, develops a proposal for a compliance mechanism to facilitate the implementation of the Jeddah Declaration commitments, calls on the parties to the conflict to engage fully in this effort, and requests that, the Secretary-General provide a written update ahead of the next Sudan briefing pursuant to resolution 2715 (2023) on practical steps to support mediation efforts, including local-level cessation of hostilities and de-escalation measures, the implementation of Jeddah Declaration commitments and the development of the compliance mechanism referred to in this paragraph; 6. Calls on the parties to the conflict to engage in dialogue, in good faith, to agree humanitarian pauses and arrangements, on a sustained basis, to ensure the safe passage of civilians and the delivery of adequate humanitarian aid, and the repair and restoration of civilian infrastructure and essential services, and urges them to restore telecommunications infrastructure and services to ensure that civilians can access emergency and essential services; 7. Welcomes continued mediation efforts by the Secretary-General’s Personal Envoy for the Sudan, Mr Ramtane Lamamra, to help advance peace and an inclusive and comprehensive Sudanese-led and Sudanese-owned political process, that reflects the aspirations of the Sudanese people, and encourages the Personal Envoy to sustain engagements with the parties to the conflict to contribute to achieving the protection of civilians, and further encourages him to continue his coordination with the African Union and other key stakeholders to ensure complementarity between the international efforts on Sudan; 8. Calls on all stakeholders to support and promote the full, equal, meaningful, and safe participation of women in all levels and stages of political dialogue and decision making, and engage with diverse Sudanese women’s organizations and networks; 9. Encourages the Secretary-General to step up planning for support to sustain any ceasefire agreement once agreed, including through monitoring and verification of any agreement, and encourages his further engagement with the African Union and the parties to the conflict in this regard; 10. Calls on the parties to the conflict to allow and facilitate the full, rapid, safe, unhindered and sustained crossline and cross-border humanitarian access into and throughout Sudan in a manner consistent with international humanitarian law, including through promoting the safety, security and freedom of movement of all humanitarian personnel and commodities without bureaucratic and other impediments; 11. Welcomes the agreement by all relevant parties to allow humanitarian air operations in South Kordofan and the decision of the Sudanese Transitional Sovereign Council to open additional entry points and to maintain the opening of the Adre border crossing, and with the prior agreement and coordination of the Sudanese Transitional Sovereign Council, calls on them to maintain the opening, and stresses the need to sustain humanitarian access through border crossings, while humanitarian needs persist, reiterates its calls for all parties to the conflict to work in close partnership with UN agencies and other humanitarian actors, including local organisations, to ensure that humanitarian assistance reaches those in need, and urges the withdrawal of fighters to enable agricultural activities throughout the planting season to avoid the worsening of already acute food insecurity; 12. Encourages the international community to urgently provide the necessary support for the scaling-up of humanitarian assistance needed to prevent further deterioration of the humanitarian situation in Sudan and for people displaced from Sudan across the region, encourages Member States to consider providing greater funding and support for local and community-based initiatives and mutual aid groups, and calls on all parties to the conflict to ensure their protection; 13. Urges concrete steps to ensure that perpetrators of violations and abuses of human rights and violations of international humanitarian law, are held accountable, including through adequate, transparent, independent and credible accountability mechanisms, including domestic mechanisms, and that all investigations into violations and abuses are conducted in an independent, transparent and impartial manner; 14. Calls on all Member States to refrain from external interference which foments conflict and instability and instead to support mediation efforts for a durable peace, reminds all parties to the conflict and Member States who facilitate the transfers of arms and military material to Darfur of their obligations to comply with the arms embargo measures as stipulated in paragraphs 7 and 8 of UN Security Council Resolution 1556 (2004) and reiterates that those who violate the arms embargo may be designated for targeted measures in accordance with paragraph 3 (c) of UN Security Council Resolution 1591 (2005); 15. Encourages international cooperation, as appropriate, to help prevent violations of the arms embargo as stipulated in paragraphs 7 and 8 of UN Security Council Resolution 1556 (2004); 16. Decides to remain actively seized of the matter.

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