Yvette Cooper leads calls to finish ‘unimaginable suffering’ in Sudan | EUROtoday

Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper is ready to press for a humanitarian resolution in Sudan as she chairs a United Nations Security Council assembly on Thursday.

Ms Cooper will demand accountability for the atrocities unfolding within the nation, highlighting the violence endured by girls and women.

She stated: “The world is catastrophically failing the people of Sudan. Women and girls continue to pay a devastating price in this war.

“I’m here at the United Nations to make it clear that the UK will not allow these experiences to be ignored. The world cannot continue to turn its back.

“We must mobilise the world’s resource and resolve to bring this unimaginable suffering to an end. The international community must do more to protect women and girls.

“We must send a clear message to perpetrators of sexual violence that they will face the full weight of the law.”

The assembly comes after the Foreign Secretary visited the Sudanese border and introduced £20 million in funding for victims of sexual violence within the nation.

A Sudanese campaigner in opposition to sexual violence will attend the UN assembly.

The UK authorities has imposed new sanctions on six people suspected of committing atrocities or fuelling the devastating struggle in Sudan by way of the availability of mercenaries and army tools.

The measures goal senior commanders within the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), whose troopers are suspected of finishing up massacres in opposition to civilians and utilizing rape as a weapon of struggle.

Also sanctioned are these suspected of recruiting international fighters for the battle or facilitating the acquisition of army tools.

Ms Cooper said there must be a “price to pay” for army commanders who’ve allowed the atrocities to occur, in addition to the “callous profiteers” fuelling the violence.

The Government needs to “dismantle the war machine” with its sanctions, whereas calling for a ceasefire and unhindered entry for help businesses, she stated.