Different forms of sexual violence against civilians, including rape, gang rape, sexual exploitation, forced prostitution, and abduction for sexual purposes as well as allegations of forced marriages and human trafficking for sexual purposes across borders, have been committed by forces commanded by both the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the Sudanese Army (SAF).
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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 documents the situation in North Darfur during November 2024, highlighting the violations committed against the vulnerable population amidst the battle for El Fasher city, North Darfur.
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The report focuses on the period between 15 April 2023, and September 2024, highlighting the plight of artists, musicians, and dramatists.
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The war in Sudan has brought unparalleled damage to Darfur's healthcare infrastructure, leaving communities without vital medical services in a region already burdened by decades of conflict and neglect. The armed violence between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) since April 2023 to date has ravaged hospitals scattered healthcare workers and ignited preventable disease outbreaks. This crisis exposes the heavy toll of conflict on the health and lives of Darfur’s population, underscoring an urgent need for humanitarian intervention.
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Following the outbreak of war on April 15, 2023, between SAF and RSF, reports from national organizations and international bodies have documented a rise in violations, including kidnapping, detention, and disappearance of individuals.
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The conflict between the Sudanese Army (SAF) and the rival Rapid Support Forces (RSF) that broke out in April 2023, has since turned ethnic, raising fears of a possible ethnic cleansing and Genocide.
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ACJPS documents new patterns of violations and early warning signs of an escalation of armed conflict that is; attacks on civilians by the RSF in Al Gazira State consequently leading to the death and displacement of hundred residents, and the armament of civilians in Eastern Sudan and Darfur region.
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The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) currently controls four out of five Darfur states. There have been reports of increased human rights violations in areas controlled by the RSF, and ACJPS expresses deep concern for the civilians in these states. In this report, ACJPS documents the violations committed against the civilians in the Darfur region between July and September 2024.
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ACJPS calls upon the Sudanese authorities to carry out an independent and impartial investigation into the kidnapping and alleged torture of Ms. Ezdihar Juma, a women human rights defender.
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African Center for Justice and Peace Studies (ACJPS) condemns the continued use of arbitrary arrests and incommunicado detention of Sudanese citizens by the security bodies amidst the ongoing conflict.
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In this release, the African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies (ACJPS) documents the continued systematic targeting of Arab communities by the Sudanese Army in Darfur and Kordofan States.
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As ACJPS observes the International Day Against the Death Penalty on this 10th day of October 2024, it is crucial to advocate for a moratorium on capital punishment in Sudan, emphasizing the need for legal reforms that prioritize human rights, accountability, and the protection of all individuals, regardless of their political affiliations.
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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.
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)
Office of the High Commissioner for human Rights (OHCHR)
Read MoreOffice of the High Commissioner for human Rights (OHCHR) Sudan
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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Sudan: Voices of human rights defenders. Repressed dissent, conflict forgotten Palais des Nations - Room XXVII | 18 September 2015 | 1pm - 2.30pmRead More
- Date: 09/17/2015 02:30 PM
- Location: Palais des NationsNations (Map)
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