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STORY: UN / SUDAN FACT FINDING MISSION
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SOURCE: UNIFEED
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LANGAUGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 20 OCTOBER 2025, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior, United Nations Headquarters
20 OCTOBER 2025, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, press briefing room
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Mona Rishmawi, Member of the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Sudan:
“We presented to the third committee a picture of a country trapped in atrocities.”
4. Wide shot, press briefing room
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Mona Rishmawi, Member of the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Sudan:
“For more than two and a half years, we've been documenting serious violations of human rights and IHL (international humanitarian law) by the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Response Forces - torture, murder, summary executions, sexual violence are only a few of the main violations that are taking place. We are also documenting attacks on infrastructure that is vital to the survival of the civilian population. Hospitals, markets, water stations have been destroyed by both the warring parties and of course, homes and properties looted.”
6. Wide shot, press briefing room
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Mona Rishmawi, Member of the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Sudan:
“So we continue to receive credible reports and video images of ethnically targeted executions of unarmed civilians, assaults, sexual violence, widespread looting, destruction of vital infrastructure, and mass forced displacement. Humanitarian access remains blocked, making the situation of starvation and disease even more difficult for the civilians trapped in this situation. Those who fled El Fasher include El Obeid, and unaccompanied children and women risk further sexual violence.”
8. Wide shot, press briefing room
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Joy Ngozi Ezeilo, Member of the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Sudan:
“Our findings describe a country where the rule of law has collapsed and impunity has prevailed over the centuries. Courts deliver selective justice without offering fair trial and adequate protection and effective remedies to victims and survivors. We conclude that Sudan is currently unwilling and unable to conduct genuine investigation or prosecution for international crimes. Our report, therefore, sets out a path to justice, true inclusive Sudanese dialog, relying on four interconnected pillars truth, justice, reparations and institutional reforms.”
10. Wide shot, press briefing room
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Joy Ngozi Ezeilo, Member of the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Sudan:
“We urged continued documentation of crimes, full participation of Sudanese civil society and the creation of registers include them for harms suffered. Victims also have the right to seek perpetrators held accountable through fair trials. We recommend expand in the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court over the entire territory of Sudan and establishing an independent judicial mechanism operating in partnership with the ICC. We also call for creation of victim support and reparations office.”
12. Wide shot, press briefing room
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Joy Ngozi Ezeilo, Member of the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Sudan:
“We further call on States to support targeted sanctions and arms embargo against those responsible. Above all, we call for protection for the civilians trapped in this conflict, for the survivors of violence, for the humanitarian workers risking their lives to reach them. The people of Sudan are demanding not sympathy, but solidarity, a commitment that they are suffering when not being ignored, and that those responsible for their pain will one day face justice. It is within our collective power to make that promise real.”
14. Wide shot, press briefing room
Members of the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Sudan told reporters that the country is “trapped in atrocities”, urging immediate protection measures and an end to impunity.
Mona Rishmawi and Joy Ngozi Ezeilo briefed reporters today (30 Oct) following their presentation to the General Assembly’s Third Committee.
Rishmawi said, “For more than two and a half years, we've been documenting serious violations of human rights and IHL (international humanitarian law) by the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Response Forces - torture, murder, summary executions, sexual violence are only a few of the main violations that are taking place.”
She continued, “We are also documenting attacks on infrastructure that is vital to the survival of the civilian population. Hospitals, markets, water stations have been destroyed by both the warring parties and of course, homes and properties looted.”
Rishmawi also said, “we continue to receive credible reports and video images of ethnically targeted executions of unarmed civilians, assaults, sexual violence, widespread looting, destruction of vital infrastructure, and mass forced displacement.”
“Humanitarian access remains blocked, making the situation of starvation and disease even more difficult for the civilians trapped in this situation. Those who fled El Fasher include El Obeid, and unaccompanied children and women risk further sexual violence,” the human rights expert added.
For her part, Ngozi Ezeilo told reporters that the report findings describe a country” where the rule of law has collapsed and impunity has prevailed over the centuries. Courts deliver selective justice without offering fair trial and adequate protection and effective remedies to victims and survivors.”
Ezeilo continued, “We conclude that Sudan is currently unwilling and unable to conduct genuine investigation or prosecution for international crimes.”
“Our report, therefore, sets out a path to justice, true inclusive Sudanese dialog, relying on four interconnected pillars truth, justice, reparations and institutional reforms,” she added.
The Fact-Finding Mission also urged “continued documentation of crimes, full participation of Sudanese civil society and the creation of registers include them for harms suffered. Victims also have the right to seek perpetrators held accountable through fair trials,” Ezeilo said.
She continued, “We recommend expand in the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court over the entire territory of Sudan and establishing an independent judicial mechanism operating in partnership with the ICC. We also call for creation of victim support and reparations office.”
The Fact-Finding Mission further called on States to “support targeted sanctions and arms embargo against those responsible.”
Ezeilo said, “Above all, we call for protection for the civilians trapped in this conflict, for the survivors of violence, for the humanitarian workers risking their lives to reach them.”
“The people of Sudan are demanding not sympathy, but solidarity, a commitment that they are suffering when not being ignored, and that those responsible for their pain will one day face justice. It is within our collective power to make that promise real,” she concluded.
