US rights group calls on UN to impose arms embargo on UAE

US rights group calls on UN to impose arms embargo on UAE Submitted by Victoria Amani Mwaniki Kishoiyian on Wed, 07/15/2026 - 18:49 Dawn says the UAE is complicit in what UN experts have found to be a genocide committed in Sudan's el-Fasher A view of damaged tanks in front of the Central Bank of Sudan building after the Sudanese army deepened its control over Khartoum from the Rapid Support Forces, in Khartoum, Sudan, on 27 April 2025 (El Tayeb Siddig/Reuters) Off Democracy for the Arab World Now (Dawn) has called on United Nations member states to impose an immediate arms embargo on the United Arab Emirates, arguing that its aid to Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) makes it complicit in atrocities that UN investigations conclude amount to genocide. The appeal demands that the UN General Assembly convene an emergency session, and comes a week after a UN fact-finding mission for Sudan warned that abuses of humanitarian law and attacks on critical infrastructure unfolding in el-Obeid echo the assault on el-Fasher. “The international community still has a window of opportunity to prevent further atrocity crimes,” expert mission member Mona Rishmawi said.