Regional Group Should Call for Halt to Weapons Flow (Juba, November 5, 2014) – South Sudan’s neighbors should urgently call for the United Nations Security Council to establish an arms embargo to stem gruesome violations in the country’s devastating conflict, more than 50 South Sudanese and international human rights and …

(4 November 2014) Four people in Al Damazin, Blue Nile state, have been charged with a number of serious criminal offences in connection with the printing and distribution of a statement by the Blue Nile sector of the Sudanese Communist Party, marking the anniversary of Sudan’s 1964 “October Revolution”. The …

Kampala, Paris, (23 October 2014) ACJPS and FIDH call upon Sudanese authorities to immediately grant access to six people who have been detained incommunicado and without charge since their arrests by Sudanese security services on 2 and 3 October 2014 in Abu Jehiba town, South Kordofan state. There are concerns …

FIDH – International Federation for Human Rights ACJPS – African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies (22 September 2014) Tomorrow, 23 September 2014, will mark the one year anniversary of the outbreak of demonstrations in cities throughout Sudan that were sparked by the lifting of fuel subsidies the day before, …

(4 September 2014) We, the undersigned, call on members of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) to immediately impose a comprehensive arms embargo on South Sudan. We also call on IGAD to issue a communiqué requesting the United Nations (UN) Security Council to adopt a resolution imposing a comprehensive international arms …

(3 September 2014) We, the undersigned African civil society organisations and international organisations with a presence in Africa working on human rights and criminal justice, join together to express our deep dismay and opposition to the recent adoption by African Union (AU) member heads of states, at the 23rd AU summit, …

(3 September 2014) Excessive and Deadly: The use of disproportionate force, arbitrary detention and torture against protestors in Sudan is a joint report by Amnesty International and the African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies (ACJPS). Over the past two years, a deteriorating economy and other austerity measures have fuelled popular …

(25 August 2014)  141 Groups in 40 Countries Speak Out African countries should reject immunity for sitting leaders for grave crimes before the African Court for Justice and Human Rights, 141 organizations said today in a declaration in advance of an African Union meeting in Nairobi. The organizations include both African groups …

(19 August 2014) The African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies (ACJPS) has documented the death of a third detainee in custody in Port Sudan after he was flogged and detained under public order laws. On 10 August Jilani Mohamed Ahmed Abdul Rasul, (m), 24 years of age, and a …

(8 August 2014) Sudanese authorities should urgently investigate the deaths of two men in early August following their detention and flogging in a Port Sudan police station and hold those responsible to account, said the African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies (ACJPS). Hussein Hadab, (m), age 45, a businessman …