African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies ACJPS | المركز الافريقي لدراسات العدالة و السلام
(4 October 2013) The African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies (ACJPS) and the East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defender Project (EHAHRDP) are deeply concerned for the safety of 23 human rights defenders who are amongst over 800 people who have been arrested in connection with anti-austerity and …
Read More »Bloody repression of protests in Sudan: FIDH and ACJPS call upon the African Union to Send an Urgent Commission of Inquiry
International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) African Center for Justice and Peace Studies (ACJPS) Paris, Nairobi, Kampala, 1 October 2013 – Over the past 7 days since the start of demonstrations in Sudan on 23 September, at least 170 people have been killed by the Sudanese authorities, hundreds more injured …
Read More »Sudan: Security forces fatally shoot dozens of protesters as demonstrations grow
(26 September 2013) The Sudanese security forces must immediately stop using arbitrary and unlawful force against protesters, the African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies and Amnesty International urged today, after confirming that at least 50 demonstrators were killed on Tuesday and Wednesday after being shot in the chest or …
Read More »Three protestors, including two children, killed by police at protest outside Government offices in Nyala
(24 September 2013) On 19 September police in Nyala, South Darfur shot and killed two children and one adult at a protest outside the South Darfur Government offices. The African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies (ACJPS) condemns the excessive use of force and calls for an immediate investigation with …
Read More »Omar Al Bashir at the UN General Assembly: U.S. must arrest him if he sets foot on U.S. territory
The Sudanese President, subject to arrest warrants for genocide and crimes against humanity, must be transferred to the International Criminal Court in The Hague FIDH, the African Center for Justice and Peace Studies (ACJPS) and in the United States, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and the Center for Justice …
Read More »Letter to Permanent Representatives of African States to the UN Human Rights Council
To: Permanent Representatives of African States to the UN Human Rights Council 12th September 2013 Re: Call for Action by African States to Protect Human Rights in Sudan at UN Human Rights Council 24th Session (9-27 September 2013) Excellency, The undersigned African civil society organisations are writing to urge …
Read More »UN Human Rights Council: Renew and Strengthen Special Procedure Mandate on the Situation of Human Rights in Sudan
(Geneva, September 9, 2013) – The UN Human Rights Council should extend and strengthen the mandate of the independent expert on the human rights situation in Sudan, a group of 20 international organizations urged in a letter to diplomats released today at the opening of the council’s 24th session. The groups urged the …
Read More »Letter to the Permanent Representatives of Member and Observer States to the UN Human Rights Council Regarding the Renewal and Strengthening of the Special Procedure Mandate on the Situation of Human Rights in Sudan
Permanent Representative of Member and Observer States to the UN Human Rights Council …
Read More »Submission to 109th Session of the UN Human Rights Committee
Joint submission of the African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies (ACJPS), Redress and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) to the UN Human Rights Council, Pre-Sessional Meeting on Sudan. Ms Zonke Zanele MAJODINA Chairperson, Human Rights Committee Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights UNOG-OHCHR CH …
Read More »Sudan Human Rights Monitor Issue 22
The feature article of the March – April 2013 issue of the Sudan Human Rights Monitor provides an overview of developments in Darfur. The UN has reported that 300,000 people were forcibly displaced in the region over just five months between January – May, a higher figure than that of …
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