A/RES/49/198 Page 4 International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, 3/ the Convention on the Rights of the Child, 12/ the Slavery Convention, as amended, 13/ and the Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade and Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery, 14/ and to ensure that all individuals in its territory and subject to its jurisdiction, including members of all religious and ethnic groups, enjoy fully the rights recognized in these instruments; 6. Urges the Government of the Sudan to cease immediately all aerial attacks and other attacks that are in violation of international humanitarian law, and to explain without delay the circumstances of the repeated air attacks on civilian targets in southern Sudan; 7. Notes with appreciation the ongoing regional efforts by heads of State of States members of the Intergovernmental Authority on Drought and Development (Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda) to assist parties to the conflict in the Sudan to reach a peaceful settlement; 8. Urges all parties to the conflict to agree to an immediate cease-fire and to cooperate fully with the present regional initiative of heads of State of States members of the Intergovernmental Authority on Drought and Development (Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda); 9. Strongly urges all parties to the hostilities to redouble their efforts to negotiate an equitable solution to the civil conflict to ensure respect for the human rights and fundamental freedoms of the Sudanese people, thereby creating the necessary conditions to end the exodus of Sudanese refugees to neighbouring countries and to facilitate their early return to the Sudan, and welcomes efforts to facilitate dialogue to that end among the parties; 10. Calls upon parties to the hostilities to respect fully the applicable provisions of international humanitarian law, including article 3 common to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, 15/ and the Additional Protocols thereto, of 1977, 16/ to halt the use of weapons against the civilian population and to protect all civilians, including women, children and members of ethnic and religious minorities, from violations, including forcible displacement, arbitrary detention, ill-treatment, torture and summary executions, and deplores the consequences for innocent civilians of the use of land-mines by government and rebel forces alike; 11. Again calls upon the Government of the Sudan and all parties to permit international agencies, humanitarian organizations and donor Governments to deliver humanitarian assistance to the civilian population and to cooperate with the initiatives of the Department of Humanitarian Affairs of the Secretariat to deliver humanitarian assistance to all persons in need; 12/ Resolution 44/25, annex. 13/ United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 212, No. 2861. 14/ Ibid., vol. 266, No. 3822. 15/ Ibid., vol. 75, Nos. 970-973. 16/ Ibid., vol. 1125, Nos. 17512 and 17513. /...