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MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION (2025/2984(RSP))

On the escalation of the war and the humanitarian catastrophe in Sudan

B-10-2025-0533

on behalf of the Renew Group · Rapporteur: Hilde Vautmans, Petras Auštrevičius, Dan Barna, Charles Goerens, Ľubica Karvašová, Moritz Körner, Ilhan Kyuchyuk, JanChristoph Oetjen, Urmas Paet, MarieAgnes StrackZimmermann, Yvan Verougstraete, Lucia Yar

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This resolution condemns the grave violations of international humanitarian law and human rights committed by both the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in Sudan, including indiscriminate attacks, sexual violence, and deliberate starvation. It demands an immediate cessation of hostilities, safe humanitarian corridors, and unimpeded access for aid, while urging increased EU humanitarian funding and support for neighbouring host countries. It calls for accountability through ICC investigations, a comprehensive UN arms embargo on Sudan, EU targeted sanctions on commanders, and an evaluation of listing the RSF as a terrorist organisation. It stresses that there is no military solution and calls for a civilian-led political process, an international peace plan, and an EU Special Envoy for Sudan.

Key points

  1. Condemns grave violations by both SAF and RSF, including indiscriminate attacks, ethnically targeted violence, sexual violence, torture, starvation tactics, and use of child soldiers.
  2. Deplores widespread sexual and gender-based violence against women and girls, calls for survivor-centred responses and accountability.
  3. Condemns mass killings in El Fasher and the airstrike near El Obeid, and calls for protection of civilians and religious minorities.
  4. Demands immediate cessation of hostilities and opening of safe humanitarian corridors, monitored by the UN and African Union.
  5. Calls on RSF and SAF to remove blockades and cease attacks on humanitarian convoys; recalls that obstruction and starvation are war crimes.
  6. Urges increased EU humanitarian funding focusing on food security, maternal health, protection from gender-based violence, and education.
  7. Calls for international support for neighbouring host countries, tied to human rights benchmarks.
  8. Welcomes ICC's expanded investigation and calls for full cooperation, including arrest and surrender of suspects.
  9. Calls on UN Security Council to impose a comprehensive arms embargo on Sudan and sanction those responsible for grave violations.
  10. Urges EU to apply targeted sanctions on key RSF and SAF commanders, including Generals al-Burhan and Dagalo, and their networks.
  11. Calls for evaluation of listing the RSF on the EU terrorist list and for halting foreign support to warring parties.
  12. Calls for a civilian-led political process, an international peace plan, and appointment of an EU Special Envoy for Sudan.

Who is affected

  • The people of Sudan, including civilians, women, children, and displaced persons.
  • Humanitarian workers and organisations, including local mutual aid groups.
  • Neighbouring countries hosting Sudanese refugees, particularly Chad, South Sudan, and Egypt.
  • The Sudanese Armed Forces and Rapid Support Forces, as well as their commanders and external enablers.
  • Sudanese civil society, human rights defenders, and journalists.

Figures and deadlines

  • Nearly 12 million people forcibly displaced since April 2023, including over 7.2 million internally displaced and more than 4.2 million refugees.
  • At least 36,825 fled North Kordofan and nearly 89,000 from North Darfur in the past month.
  • More than 460 patients and companions killed in Saudi Maternity Hospital in El Fasher on or around 28 October 2025.
  • At least 40 civilians killed in an airstrike near El Obeid on 3 November 2025.
  • EUR 270 million in EU humanitarian assistance to Sudan in 2025.
  • More than 21 million people facing acute food insecurity.
  • Conflict-related sexual violence approximately 160% higher in first half of 2025 than same period in 2024.
  • Over 1.1 million Sudanese fled to Chad, about 1.3 million to Egypt, and roughly 580,000 to South Sudan.