Alliance/IRF Call for UN General Assembly action on Sudan
- Genocide Watch
- 17 hours ago
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A boy sits at a camp for displaced people who fled from el-Fasher to Tawila, North Darfur, on October 27, 2025 [Mohammed Jamal/Reuters]
The Genocide Working Group, a coalition of the 130 organization Alliance Against Genocide and the global International Religious Freedom Roundtable, has proposed a United Nations General Assembly Resolution on Sudan that:
Demands an immediate ceasefire by all sides in the Sudan civil war;
Demands unhindered access to food and medicine for all persons in El Fasher and elsewhere in Sudan;
Condemns ethnically targeted attacks and starvation as acts of genocide and war crimes;
Calls for accountability throughout Sudan and cooperation with the International Criminal Court;
Establishes an independent investigative commission on Sudan to report to the General Assembly;
Urges the re-establishment of a UN mission to protect civilians and support aid delivery.
Member organizations of the Alliance and the IRF Roundtable are meeting with UN Missions in New York and with Foreign Ministries around the world seeking co-sponsorship of the resolution.
The resolution is proposed under the United Nations Uniting For Peace Procedure, which empowers the UN General Assembly to recommend collective action by UN Members when UN Security Council action is blocked by a veto by any of the Permanent Five members of the Security Council.
In November 2024, Russia vetoed a UN Security Council Resolution supported by 14 out of 15 members of the Security Council that condemned RSF ethnically motivated killings. sexual violence, and destruction, called for a ceasefire, demanded unhindered access to humanitarian aid, demanded an end to the seige of El Fasher, demanded protection of humanitarian hospitals and personnel, called for an end to sexual violence, and called for safe routes for civilians to flee the city. It did not call for an armed protection force. But Russia vetoed even that hortatory resolution, reportedly at the urging of General Burhan and the Sudan Armed Forces, which are also committing genocide and crimes against humanity in Sudan.
The proposed UN General Assembly resolution must gather many more cosponsors before it is introduced. Missions consulted so far have emphasized the strong need for support from African nations. This resolution must not be seen as support for imposition of non-African intervention in Sudan.
We urge all persons, churches, mosques, temples, synagogues, human rights NGOs, national and state legislatures and other organizations to contact the Foreign Ministries of their governments to ask them to cosponsor the resolution. We will be circulating a letter to all UN Missions for signatures by individuals and organizations that support introduction and adoption of this UN General Assembly resolution on Sudan.
The proposed draft UN General Assembly resolution on Sudan is attached here:
The IRF Roundtable - Alliance Against Genocide letter to UN Missions is attached here:
The Russian vetoed draft UN Security Council resolution on Sudan, November 2024 is attached here:
