Following an urgent debate, the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) adopted on 6 July, without a vote, Resolution 62/1 on the human rights situation in and around El Obeid, in the context of the ongoing conflict in the Sudan. The Council strongly condemned the escalating violence committed by the Rapid Support Forces and their associated and allied forces in and around El Obeid following 18 months of siege-like conditions, and expressed deep concern about the imminent risk of large-scale atrocities. The resolution requests the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to present an oral update to the HRC on the human rights situation in and around El Obeid before the end of its 63rd session; and calls on the independent international fact-finding mission for the Sudan to conduct an urgent inquiry into any violations and abuses of International Human Rights Law and violations of International Humanitarian Law and related international crimes, allegedly committed in and around El Obeid in the context of the ongoing conflict in the Sudan. The resolution also emphasizes that “States have the primary responsibility for ensuring respect for, and for the promotion of and protection of, all human rights and fundamental freedoms, as well as to protect their populations from genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity.”