A Geneva panel during UNHRC 63 argued the UN has many Sudan tools (fact-finding, sanctions, experts) but they miss what is killing most civilians now: famine risk for tens of millions, sieges of El Obeid and El Fasher, and foreign-supplied drones.

HRWF and others want an OPCW-backed inquiry into alleged SAF chlorine use (the U.S. made a 2025 finding; Khartoum denies it), plus a nationwide arms embargo that covers drones. The current 2004 embargo still applies only to Darfur and was due to expire 12 September; Russia, China, and African members opposed widening it.

UN monitors say drones caused more than 80% of recorded civilian deaths early this year (880-plus, then over 1,000). The fact-finding mission says outside suppliers armed both SAF and RSF. Speakers called this “ignored,” not forgotten—reports exist without tools that bite.

The United Nations has more machinery pointed at Sudan than at almost any other conflict of the past three years. It has a fact-finding mission, a sanctions regime, a panel of experts, and a Human Rights Council session sitting in Geneva as this is written. What a panel discussion held during that session made clear is how little of that machinery is aimed at the parts of the war now killing the most civilians.

The event, convened on 8 September at the Geneva Press Club by CAP Freedom of Conscience and Human Rights Without Frontiers (HRWF) during the Council’s 63rd session, ended with three recommendations: an independent international investigation into allegations of chemical weapons use, with the participation of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons and a fixed reporting deadline; scrutiny in Council debates and resolutions of arms transfer disclosure and embargo compliance by all external actors sustaining the war; and urgent guarantees of safe passage for civilians besieged in El Obeid and El........

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