On Human Rights Day and the Day of Genocide Commemoration, 10th December 2025

On Human Rights Day and the Day ofGenocide Commemoration: Sudan’s Civilians Demand Protection, Justice, and the World’s Conscience

December 9th marks the International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of Genocide, and December 10th marks International Human Rights Day; both of extreme significance to DWAG’s mission and to the people we strive to protect.

We wish to take this opportunity to reflect on our collective conscience and the moral standard that makes these two significant occasions a reflection on realities, not rhetoric. As the world commemorates these milestones, the people of Sudan are mourning victims of multiple genocides that the world has failed to protect, recognize, and act upon.

These dates must not be a cause for celebration, but a reminder of the legal and moral obligations international institutions have vowed to uphold.

Protection of human rights and recognition of the dignity of genocide victims begins with accountability. This is not only a moral imperative—it is a legal obligation arising from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Yet Sudan, particularly Darfur, Kordofan, and El Fasher, stands as one of the most devastating failures of international protection.

For more than two years, the war between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the genocidal Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has subjected civilians to starvation, ethnic killing, mass rape, aerial bombardment, and siege. While the Declaration promised that “all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights,” Sudanese civilians are left with mass graves, scorched villages, disappearance, and hunger.

Escalating Human Rights Abuses in Darfur

Since April 15, 2023, more than 12 million people have been forcibly displaced, including 7.3 million internally and over 4.2 million refugees and asylum-seekers abroad. In El Fasher alone, thousands were killed when the city fell to RSF on October 26, 2025, after 18 months of siege.

Conflict-related sexual violence has reached emergency levels. Entire villages across Kordofan have been emptied. According to the WFP, over 26 million people face acute hunger. In Darfur camps, a child dies every two hours, according to MSF.

A Disregard for Civilian Protection

Health workers have been killed, hospitals bombed, and aid looted with impunity. In October 2025, RSF stormed Saudi Hospital in El Fasher, killing over 460 patients, nurses, and doctors. More than 30.4 million people now require urgent humanitarian aid.

Displacement camps, meant to be protected under international law, are being systematically dismantled. The attack on Zamzam camp should have shocked the world. Instead, weak condemnation emboldened perpetrators.

Impunity for Serious International Crimes

Despite documentation of mass slaughter, rape, and starvation as a weapon of war, accountability remains out of reach. While the conviction of Ali Kushayb marks progress, perpetrators remain free, funded, and politically legitimized.

Accountability cannot be selective. Allowing sanctioned RSF leaders to travel freely while civilians are slaughtered sets a dangerous precedent: that power outweighs justice.

On days dedicated to dignity and rights, Sudan must not be the exception. “Never again” must include Sudan.