UN human rights body passes resolution on human rights abuses in Sudan, amid worsening conflict

GENEVA (AP) — The top U.N. human rights body has adopted a resolution concerning mounting civilian deaths and rights abuses in Sudan since a bloody conflict erupted between the African country’s two top generals last month. Member states of the Human Rights Council narrowly passed on Thursday the resolution with 18 states voting in favor, 15 against and 14 other nations abstaining. The main co-sponsors of the draft resolution were all European, in addition to the United States. The conflict erupted in mid-April between the chief of Sudan’s military, Gen. Abdel Fattah Burhan, and rival Gen. Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, who commands a powerful paramilitary group called the Rapid Support Forces, or the RSF. So far, the violence has killed more than 600 people, and displaced hundreds of thousands.