RWCHR Inquiry: Sudan’s Children Targets of "War on Children”
- Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights
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Nearly two and a half years into Sudan’s devastating conflict, children are suffering on an unimaginable scale.
The Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights has just released a landmark independent inquiry exposing systematic atrocities against children in Sudan and identifying legal grounds to hold States and companies complicit in the violence accountable.
Key Findings:
Warring parties have targeted children with killings, rape, enslavement, forced military recruitment, forced displacement, persecution, and the destruction of hospitals, schools, and other essential civilian infrastructure.
Children are enduring crimes against humanity, war crimes, and genocide.
The ongoing failure by States and international actors to interveneis a moral and legal betrayal.
Several States are complicit in fueling the conflict. We name the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Chat, China, Iran, Kenya, Russia and others as complicit to varying degrees for supporting the warring parties.
A vast network of corporate actors based in Canada, Colombia, the United States, and Europe facilitates the conflict.
The investigation was reviewed and endorsed by top legal experts, including Luis Moreno Ocampo, the founding Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court.
“The children of Sudan are not collateral to history. They are its measure.”— Irwin Cotler, RWCHR International Chair
“Children in Sudan are not simply caught in the crossfire — they are being deliberately targeted.”— Yonah Diamond, RWCHR Legal Counsel and Lead Author
“The real evil of what is happening in Sudan is that the brutalities against adults are also being applied deliberately against the youngest, most vulnerable, and utterly defenceless members of society.”— Mukesh Kapila, Former UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Sudan
Making Headlines
Our inquiry is already making international news.
See this week’s coverage in:
Read today’s essay by the RWCHR’s Mutasim Ali and Yonah Diamond, the inquiry’s co-authors, in Foreign Policy: Why Won’t the UAE End the War in Sudan?
Call to Action
Our inquiry establishes the legal grounds to hold perpetrators and enablers accountable, and calls on the international community to act now to protect Sudan’s children, deliver humanitarian aid, and uphold the promise of Never Again.
Right now, nearly one million civilians trapped in El Fasher are being forced toward one of two fates: death by starvation or death by mass killing. Solutions are urgently needed to save Sudan’s children and their families.
We call forcefully for urgent action on their behalf.
👉 Share our call today.
Our Work in Sudan
This inquiry into crimes against Sudan’s children supports our mission to prevent genocide and mass atrocities and to combat impunity for these crimes. It builds directly on our 2024 inquiry, Breaches of the Genocide Convention in Darfur, Sudan.
Learn more about the global Sudan Taskforce for Accountability and Justice (STAJ), which we lead.
Support our efforts to uphold the promise of Never Again.
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