UN human rights body holds session on Sudan after paramilitary killings in Darfur World Nov 14, 2025 11:22 AM EST

GENEVA (AP) — The U.N.’s top human rights body held a one-day special session Friday to highlight hundreds of killings at a hospital in Sudan’s Darfur region and other atrocities blamed on paramilitary forces fighting the army in the northeast African country.

The Human Rights Council also passed an unopposed resolution calling on an existing team of independent experts to carry out an urgent inquiry into the killings and other rights violations in the city of el-Fasher by the Rapid Support Forces paramilitary.

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“The atrocities that are unfolding in el-Fasher were fo

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