AM-53-1 to R6: European Greens Demand Urgent Action to Protect Civilians in Sudan

The European Green Party is deeply concerned about the humanitarian crisis in
Sudan. Civilians are facing brutal violence, displacement and the destruction of
natural resources. We stand in solidarity with the civilian victims and call for
immediate coordinated international action to stop the violence and address the
crisis’s root causes.

The genocide in Darfur is among the worst humanitarian catastrophes of the 21st
century. Nearly two decades later, the region is again ensnared in armed
conflict with warring parties committing war crimes, crimes against humanity and
violations of international humanitarian law.

Since April 2023, the conflict between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the
Rapid Support Forces (RSF), has escalated into one of the world’s biggest
humanitarian crises, with thousands murdered and over 13 million displaced.
Twenty-five million people face severe hunger and the collapse of state
structures. The RSF’s assault on El Fasher on 26 October 2025 resulted in mass
killings, ethnic violence, systematic sexual violence, destruction of health
facilities and the killing of hundreds of patients inside the city’s maternity
hospital.

United Nations investigations confirm that RSF and SAF forces have committed war
crimes, crimes against humanity, including extrajudicial killings, torture, the
systematic use of sexual violence as a weapon of war, with girls, women, and
children facing rape, abduction, forced marriage, sexual slavery, and severe
stigma, starvation as a method of warfare, widespread destruction of civilian
infrastructure, and obstruction of humanitarian aid.

Environmental degradation and climate stress—including desertification, land
degradation, and gold mining controlled by armed groups—are exacerbating the
conflict.

The crisis demands urgent action from the EU and national governments. This
action must be in collaboration with Sudanese civil society, including
journalists, scholars, human rights defenders, women-led resistance committees
and diaspora organisations.

As European Greens, we:

• Condemn the atrocities committed by the RSF in Darfur, El Fasher, El
  Geneina, El Obeid and other areas, including mass killings, ethnic
  cleansing, systematic rape, sexual violence as a war tool, torture,
  enforced disappearances, destruction of homes and attacks on humanitarian
  facilities

• Condemn SAF violations, including indiscriminate aerial bombardments,
  killings, torture in detention and obstruction of aid

• Call for an immediate, nationwide ceasefire and an end to indiscriminate
  attacks, sieges, starvation tactics, and sexual violence, as a necessary
  precondition for any humanitarian intervention and political dialogue

• Call for urgent, unrestricted, and safe humanitarian access through all
  possible routes

• Call on the EU and national governments to urgently increase funding for
  international organisations such as the United Nations Population Fund and
  local humanitarian responders, reversing recent cuts

• Coordinate with the African Union and the United Nations to establish and
  support a unified diplomatic track to overcome fragmented mediation
  efforts:

  • Freeze the EU–United Arab Emirates (UAE) Free Trade Agreement
    negotiations until the UAE demonstrably ceases support to the RSF

  • Sanction all individuals and entities responsible for arms
    transfers, financing, or enabling atrocities, including those operating through shell companies, gold supply chains, and foreign mercenary networks.

  • Apply targeted asset freezes and travel bans to RSF and SAF
    leadership implicated in war crimes and ensure these sanctions are harmonised across EU Member States.

  • Expand resettlement programmes, ensure access to asylum, end forced
    returns, and investigate abuses committed by border authorities, including racial profiling and violent pushbacks. Ensure that Sudanese refugees have access to fair asylum procedures and protection within the EU, and prohibit the externalisation of asylum processing to unsafe third countries.

  • Reinforce the EU's Special Representative for the Horn of Africa to
    bring together regional and international actors to restore a
    coherent mediation framework aligned wtih African-led peace efforts.

  • Use universal jurisdiction in EU member states to prosecute
    perpetrators who enter EU territory

  • 
    recognise Recognise environmental degradation as a driver and consequence of
    conflict, and integrate climate justice into all humanitarian and peace-building strategies.

  • Ensure EU mandatory due diligence legislation covering raw materials
    from Sudan to interrupt supply chains linked to RSF financing, including gold, gum arabic, and agricultural exports. Sanctions must also target transnational gold traders, private military contractors, and mercentary networks profiting from Sudan's conflict economy.

  • Ensure accountability for corporations contributing to environmental
    destruction or benefiting from conflict-related exploitation.

  • Work towards and finance climate adaptation initiatives for
    displacement-affected regions with community-led design and implementation.

• Call for strict implementation of United Nations Security Council
  Resolution 2791 (2025) and expansion of the Darfur arms embargo to all
  Sudan

• Call on all states, particularly the UAE, to immediately stop supplying
  arms, ammunition, drones and equipment to the RSF, SAF or affiliated armed
  groups

• Recognise Sudanese women’s and feminist groups’ leadership in resistance,
  humanitarian action, and peacebuilding and call for direct funding to
  women’s organisations, youth committees, local responders, independent
  journalists, and human rights defenders