Source: United Nations (video statements)
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk briefed journalists in Nairobi following a five-day mission to Sudan where “a chronicle of cruelty is unfolding before our very eyes."
Mr. Türk visited the Al Afad IDP camp in Northern State of Sudan, as the situation in the country has triggered the world’s largest displacement of populations.
The UN Human Rights Chief heard accounts of sexual violence being used as a weapon of war.
He called on ‘all those who have any influence, including regional actors and notably those who supply the arms and benefit economically from this war’ to act urgently to bring it to an end.