On 14 November the UN Human Rights Council convened a special session on the human rights situation in and around El Fasher, in the context of the ongoing conflict in the Sudan, and adopted Resolution S-38/1 without a vote. Resolution S-38/1 requests the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission (FFM) for the Sudan to conduct an urgent inquiry into the recent alleged violations of international law committed in and around El Fasher. The Council requested the FFM to identify, where possible, all those for whom there were reasonable grounds to believe that they were responsible for alleged violations and abuses of international human rights law and to support efforts to ensure that the perpetrators of alleged abuses were held accountable. The Council also requested the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights to present an oral update on the human rights situation in El Fasher, followed by an interactive dialogue, before its sixty-first session, and requested the FFM to present a report on the findings of its inquiry to the Council at its sixty-first session, followed by an enhanced interactive dialogue, to be combined with the dialogue with the High Commissioner and the Designated Expert on Human Rights in the Sudan. The resolution also recalls that “the Sudan has the responsibility to act in accordance with international humanitarian law, as well as to protect its population from genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity.”