Tag Archives: Human Rights

(February-March 2012) The feature article of this issue provides an overview of the conflict between Sudan and South Sudan. On 14 March the Governments of Sudan and South Sudan achieved a breakthrough in the negotiations on future economic, security and social relationships between the two countries that had been ongoing …

(January 2012) In the months immediately preceding and following South Sudan’s referendum on independence, the Sudanese authorities launched a renewed campaign of systematic repression of freedom of expression featuring new tactics to intimidate and silence independent media in the country. Historically, the Sudanese government’s main method of silencing media was …

(October 2011) The success of South Sudan’s January 2011 referendum and the peaceful separation of the North and South contrasts sharply with renewed violence in two of Sudan’s contested “three areas,” Blue Nile and South Kordofan states. Recent patterns of violations in South Kordofan indicate that aerial assaults and arbitrary …

(May 2011) Since the successful youth protests in Tunisia and Egypt and demonstrations throughout Sudan organised by the Youth for Change in late January till present, the National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) and police have increasingly targeted students, likely over fears of their potential organising power. Demonstrations organised by …

(April 2011) Throughout Sudan’s interim period, a marginal amount of space for freedom of expression and association was allowed by the National Congress Party (NCP) in conformance with the democratic transformation platform set forth by the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA).  Significant measures were taken in the drafting of the …

(October 2009) On 27 September 2009, Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir announced that the government would cease the onerous pre-publication censorship regulations which had been placed on journalists in Sudan. The president’s statement, however, was immediately followed by indications that the move was not intended to create an open environment for …