SUDAN INSIGHT ALERT: International Service for Human Rights - UN Security Council must take urgent action to protect civilians

A group of 118 feminist, women’s human rights, and human rights groups call on the members of the UN Security Council to:

Protect civilians and protect women and girls under the UNSC Resolution 1325 specifically addressing women’s human rights in conflict and create a monitoring and reporting mechanisms on the widespread conflict-related sexual violence the Sudan war.
Create a mechanism to guarantee immediate and unconditional access for humanitarian aid.
Immediately restore telecommunications across the country
Ensure that accountability is guaranteed against warring parties for the war crimes committed and genocide perpetrated against certain tribes in Darfur.
Extend the arms embargo on Darfur to all of Sudan and create effective monitoring and reporting mechanisms to ensure the implementation of the embargo.
Refer the situation to the International Criminal Court (ICC) so that the ICC’s jurisdiction is extended to include all conflict areas in Sudan.