FIDH, together with its member organizations in Sudan (SHRM and ACJPS), as well as additional undersigned member organizations from across Africa and the Arab region, express grave alarm following the fall of El Fasher to the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on 26 October 2025, which marks a catastrophic escalation in Sudan’s ongoing conflict.
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ACJPS has a vision of a Sudan where all people can live and prosper free from fear and want in a state committed to justice, equality and peace.
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The African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies (ACJPS) is a non-profit, non-governmental organization working to monitor and promote respect for human rights and legal reform in Sudan.
ACJPS has a vision of a Sudan where all people can live and prosper free from fear and want in a state committed to justice, equality and peace.
ACJPS has a vision of a Sudan where all people can live and prosper free from fear and want in a state committed to justice, equality and peace.
In this release, ACJPS highlights a concerning situation where at least 346 children across five shelters in El-Fashir, North Darfur, urgently need help, as their health has deteriorated to a critical nutritional stage.
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This report details the ongoing decline in the human rights situation in Sudan during July, August, and September 2025, attributable to the persistent conflict between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces. The conflict has expanded into new regions, leading to increased civilian casualties and significant breaches of international humanitarian law.
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This report reviews the humanitarian and health situation in Sudan during September 2025, focusing on grave violations committed against civilians. The report reflects the repercussions of the ongoing conflict, the health collapse, and the spread of epidemics, along with direct and indirect attacks on civilians and their property.
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In this statement, ACJPS details several incidents where education staff and teachers have been specifically targeted on allegations of collaborating with the SAF-controlled government in Port Sudan
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ACJPS is honored to present a survivor-informed documentary film that illuminates the severe realities faced by individuals ensnared in trafficking and smuggling networks, revealing current trends and exposing human rights violations perpetrated against victims.
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In this release, ACJPS presents accounts of several incidents of sexual violence perpetrated against women and girls from the Utash internally displaced persons (IDP) camp in South Darfur.
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ACJPS strongly condemns the recent brutal attacks on worshippers by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in El-Fasher, North Darfur, which have resulted in multiple fatalities and injuries.
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ACJPS expresses its profound concern regarding the well-being of two civilians who were detained by the SAF military Intelligence Unit subsequent to the Marawi Criminal Court's decision to dismiss a previous case against them.
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Sudan witnessed a serious escalation in gross human rights violations during August 2025, particularly in Darfur and conflict-affected states. These violations took various forms, including direct targeting of civilians, mass displacement, sexual assaults, deteriorating health care, and the collapse of basic services.
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The Sudanese conflict has tragically resulted in the targeting of innocent civilians in El-Fasher, a city under a dire humanitarian crisis. This situation is a stark reminder of the pressing need for peace and protection of innocent lives.
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ACJPS would like to provide an update on the Tarsin Landslide that occurred in Jabel Marra in August 2025. We also want to acknowledge the quick responses from rescue teams and the humanitarian consortium, which included national and international partners. Additionally, we recognize the crucial role local communities played in responding to the crisis in its early stages.
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The African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (the ACHPR) Held its 81st Ordinary Session at Sir Dawda Kairaba Jawara International Conference Centre, Kololi, The Gambia from 17 October – 6 November 2024. ACJPS participated in some of the sessions on Sudan and also presented an Oral statement before the commission.
The NGOs Forum is organized twice a year preceding the Ordinary Session of the ACHPR as a platform where updates on the human rights situation in Africa are tabled and discussed by the NGO community with a view of identifying possible remedies, which are forwarded to the African Commission as contribution to its work during a said Session.
Mr. Amir Suleiman, the ACJPS Legal Program Director, was one of the panelists at a side event orgainsed by DefendDefenders, SIHA, ACJPS, and African Defenders during the 83rd Session of the ACHPR in Banjul, The Gambia. The panelists discussed the Human Rights and Humanitarian Situation in Sudan since the outbreak of the war, the role of ACHPR and the way forward for the people of Sudan.
THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Hassan Shire (Chair)
Chairman
Hassan Shire is the Executive Director of DefendDefenders has steered the organisation through its growth over the years. He is also the Chairperson of African Defenders (Pan African Human Rights Defenders Network). Shire is a Somali/Canadian, with over 25 years’ experience working in the region. While in Canada, he worked with the Centre for Refugee Studies at York University and Amnesty International Canada to create the African Human Rights Defenders Project. In 2005 he returned to Africa and founded DefendDefenders in Uganda.
Jehanne Henry
Secretary
Jehanne Henry is a Senior Researcher in Human Rights Watch’s Africa division, with a focus on Sudan, South Sudan, and Kenya. Prior to joining the organization, she served as a Human Rights Officer with the United Nations Mission in Sudan based in North Darfur.
Suliman Baldo
Suliman Baldo’s areas of interest and expertise include conflict resolution, emergency relief, development, and human rights in Africa, as well as international advocacy on those issues. In 2010 and 2011, Baldo provided expert advice to joint United Nations (UN) and African Union mediation teams on justice for victims of the conflict in Darfur and worked as an independent commissioner in the UN Independent Commission of Investigations into post-election violence in Côte d’Ivoire.
Elizabeth Hodgkin
Elizabeth Hodgkin is currently teaching in a secondary school in Eastern Equatoria State in the Republic of South Sudan. Hodgkin first came to Sudan between school and university in 1960. Following a degree in history and a diploma in education she taught in a secondary school in Zambia and then worked as a lecturer in the History Department of the University of Khartoum from 1968-73. She continued to visit Sudan frequently.
Yitiha Simbeye
Yitiha Simbeye is a lecturer in Law at the Open University of Tanzania (OUT) in Dar es Salaam. Simbeye specializes in international criminal law and is currently coordinator of the Masters in Law in International Criminal Justice (LLM ICJ) at OUT; from 2008-11 she was head of the International & Constitutional Law Department.
Amin Mekki Medani
Dr. Amin Mekki Medani (Late) was an expert in international human rights. He was a lawyer, policy analyst, organizational manager, development cooperation specialist, law professor, advocate and organizer. He had thirty-five years of relevant experience at the academic, judicial, governmental, non-governmental, regional and international levels.
Salih Mahmoud Osman
Salih Mahmoud Osman has practiced law in Sudan since 1982. He specialises in criminal law, civil law and human rights. He was an elected MP in the Sudanese national parliament (National Assembly) in 2005 - 2010. He is a member of the Parliamentary Legislative Committee (working on law reform to bring Sudanese laws in conformity with international human rights standards). He has worked with the American Bar Association (ABA) providing legal expertise on the protection of civilians in conflict zones, since 2006.
Faisal Elbagir
Faisal Elbagir Faisal Elbagir is a prominent Sudanese journalist and human rights defender. He is the founder and Coordinator General of Journalists for Human Rights – Sudan, an organization monitoring the freedom of expression and media.
Dismas Nkunda
Dismas Nkunda is the Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Atrocities Watch Africa.
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Office of the High Commissioner for human Rights (OHCHR)
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Office of the High Commissioner for human Rights (OHCHR) Sudan
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In-depth research and analysis on key legal issues in Sudan, including Sudan’s compliance with international and regional human rights commitments
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The African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (African Commission) is the main human rights body for Africa. It was established in 1987 following the adoption of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights by the Organisation of African Unity (now the African Union). The African Commission is tasked with protecting and promoting human and peoples’ rights. It also interprets the Charter as it applies to particular cases and can guide African governments in ensuring their legislation and practices comply with the Charter.
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The ACJPS Human Rights Monitoring Programme is dedicated to documenting urgent cases of individuals at risk and emerging situations of concern throughout Sudan.
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The African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights (the Commission), during its during its 77th Ordinary Session, held from 20 October to 09 November 2023 in Arusha, Tanzania considered your application and granted Observer Status to your Organization, African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies, under the Reference No. OBS.557.
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