Tag Archives: Protests

(10 February 2016) Sudan should stop the brutal suppression of protest and hold to account the security forces responsible for killing, injuring, and torturing protesters throughout the country. A group of 15 female protestors were beaten with wooden batons by members of Sudan’s National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) on …

International Federation for Human Rights – FIDH African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies – ACJPS Sudan Human Rights Monitor – SHRM Paris, Kampala, Khartoum, 23 September 2015 – The Government of Sudan continues to fail to ensure that those responsible for international crimes and other serious human rights abuses …

(3 September 2014) The brutal suppression of protest in Sudan must end, and members of the security forces responsible for killing, injuring, and torturing protesters must be held to account, said Amnesty International and the African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies (ACJPS) in a report published today. The report, Excessive and deadly: …

To Permanent Representatives of member and observer states of the UN Human Rights Council Geneva, 18 July 2014 RE: Human rights situation in Sudan at the 27thsession of the Human Rights Council Excellency, The undersigned organizations urge your delegation to recognize and respond to the gravity of the human rights …

The feature article of the August – November 2013 issue of the Sudan Human Rights Monitor provides an overview of the September 2013 mass demonstrations that took place across Sudan. The demonstrations, initially held in reaction to an announcement by President Omar al Bashir that fuel subsidies would be cut, …

(17 March 2014) The East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project (EHAHRDP) and the African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies (ACJPS) are deeply concerned for the safety of human rights defenders Gazi Alrayah Al-Sanhouri and Abdulmonim Adam who are detained incommunicado by the National Intelligence and Security Services …

Permanent Representative of Member and Observer States to the UN Human Rights Council                                                                            …

(10 December 2012) The Government of Sudan must condemn in the strongest terms the excessive use of force by its police and security forces at Al Jazeera University on 5 December and conduct an immediate independent investigation into student deaths.   On 6 and 7 December, four students were found …

(August-September 2012) The feature article of this issue of the Sudan Human Rights Monitor gives an overview of the agreement reached between Sudan and South Sudan on 27 September in Addis Ababa. The agreement addressed a host of outstanding post-referendum issues, such as oil sharing, nationality status, security and border …

(June-July 2012) The feature article of this issue of Sudan Human Rights Monitor gives an overview of the demonstrations that began in Khartoum on 16 June and quickly spread across the country.The demonstrations rapidly gained momentum and transformed from public discontent over rising prices caused by austerity measures imposed in …