Tag Archives: Human Rights Council

Human Rights Council – 36th session Item 10 – Interactive Dialogue with the Independent Expert on Sudan 27th September 2017  Thank you Mr President, Our organisations, the East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project and the African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies (ACJPS) would like to express …

Human Rights Council – 36th session Item 10 – Interactive Dialogue with the Independent Expert on Sudan 27th September 2017  FIDH and its member organisation, the African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies (ACJPS) share the Independent Expert’s concerns about serious human rights challenges still not addressed by Sudan. Serious …

(20 December 2016) A prominent Sudanese human rights defender (HRD), Dr. Mudawi Ibrahim Adam, is currently detained incommunicado by the country’s National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS). Dr. Mudawi was arrested at the University of Khartoum, where he is a professor, on 7 December 2016 alongside his longtime driver, Adam …

Human Rights Council – 33rd session Item 10: Interactive Dialogue with the Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in the Sudan Oral statement Mr. President, Mr. Independent Expert, FIDH and its member organisations, the African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies (ACJPS) and the Sudanese Human Rights Monitor …

Sudan:  No Justice for Protester Killings UN Should Press Sudan to Investigate, Prosecute Those Responsible (Nairobi, September 22, 2016) – Sudanese authorities have yet to provide justice to victims of a violent crackdown on anti-austerity protesters in Khartoum in September 2013, the African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies (ACJPS), …

See full event invitation here. From 5 – 6pm on Thursday, 15 September 2016 in the Palais des Nations, a panel called “Sudan’s entrenched crises and & the role of the Human Rights Council” will be hosted by the African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies, Amnesty International, Christian Solidarity Worldwide, International Federation for Human Rights …

Tweet to encourage the adoption of a strong resolution (14 September 2016) From 13 September – 30 September 2016, members of the UN Human Rights Council are meeting in Geneva to discuss the human rights situation across the globe. We want to make sure Sudan is at the top of …

(19 April 2016) The African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies (ACJPS) together with the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the International Refugee Rights Initiative (IRRI) today published a joint briefing for UN member states setting out key concerns and recommendations to improve the human rights situation in …

(31 March 2016) The efforts of the Government of Sudan to obstruct the engagement of civil society activists in a United Nations (UN)-led human rights review of the country is unacceptable and shows blatant contempt not just for human rights defenders in Sudan, but to human rights standards and the …

(28 March 2016) Sudan’s security agency has prevented three members of a civil society coalition from travelling to Geneva, Switzerland, to take part in meetings in preparation for the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Sudan in May. The three were stopped by plain-clothed security agents after checking in, told they …