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4.
Welcomes the recommendation of the Special Rapporteur that human
rights monitors be placed at the earliest possible date in such locations as
will facilitate improved information flow and assessment and independent
verification of reports on the situation of human rights in the Sudan; 9/
5.
Calls upon the Government of the Sudan to comply with applicable
international human rights instruments to which the Sudan is a party, in
particular the International Covenants on Human Rights, 2/ the International
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, 3/ the
Convention on the Rights of the Child, 4/ the Slavery Convention, as
amended, 10/ and the Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery,
the Slave Trade and Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery, 11/ to
implement those instruments to which it is a party 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 those instruments;
6.
Urges the Government of the Sudan to cease immediately all aerial
attacks on civilian targets and other attacks that are in violation of
international humanitarian law;
7.
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, 12/ and the Additional
Protocols thereto, of 1977, 13/ 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
landmines by government and rebel forces alike;
8.
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 and United Nations agencies working in the field, in
particular Operation Lifeline Sudan, to deliver humanitarian assistance to all
persons in need;
9.
Reiterates its call upon the Government of the Sudan to ensure a
full, thorough and prompt investigation by an independent judicial inquiry
commission of the killings of Sudanese nationals employed by foreign relief
organizations and foreign Governments;
9/
Ibid., para. 82 (j).
10/
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 212, No. 2861.
11/
Ibid., vol. 266, No. 3822.
12/
Ibid., vol. 75, Nos. 970-973.
13/
Ibid., vol. 1125, Nos. 17512 and 17513.
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