Monitoring Programme

(21 October 2022) The African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies (ACJPS), writes to the ACHPR to express our concerns and urge you to address the crackdown on peaceful demonstrators and ongoing violations of human rights in Sudan. ACJPS is a non-profit, non-governmental organization working to monitor and promote respect …

(29 September 2022) African Center for Justice and Peace Studies would like to declare it is solidarity with Missing Persons Investigation Committee (MPIC) and associates itself with the recommendations published on 19th September 2022 in a press statement addressing a decision made by Sudanese Attorney General regarding the burial of …

(25 September 2022) The African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies (ACJPS) has documented several incidents where Sudanese authorities have interfered with the exercise of media freedom and free expression in the months of September 2022. On several occasions, the authorities attacked and/or judicially harassed journalists during the course of …

United Nations Human Rights Council Geneva 21st September, 2022 Reference: Extend the mandate of the International Commission of Human Rights Experts on Ethiopia.  Your Excellencies, The African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies (ACJPS) and Atrocities Watch Africa (AWA) urge the UN Human Rights Council (from now on the Council) …

(21 September 2022) The conflict in Ethiopia that began in November 2020 has driven an estimated 59,501 refugees into Sudan.[1] Most of these arrived in the early days of the war, but new refugee arrivals were recorded in early September following the resumption of hostilities in late August.[2] Most of …

(16 September 2022) African Center for Justice and Peace Studies (ACJPS) is deeply concerned over the continued violation of rights of citizens by law enforcers in Sudan. In this release, ACJPS has documented an incident where 177 people were detained under the Emergency law after a tribal conflict. In another …

(15 September 2022) On 26th June, 2022, African Center for Justice and Peace Studies (ACJPS) together with Darfur Bar Association and Lawyers Democratic Front held a symposium at the Sudanese lawyers club in commemoration of the International Day against Torture in Sudan. The symposium was aimed at raising awareness of …

(15 September 2022) As the world commemorated the International Day for Victims of Enforced Disappearance on 30th August, ACJPS together with OHCHR-Sudan and the Missing Initiative organised a public symposium & Exhibition on ED. Participants discussed the ratification of CPPED, challenges and opportunities after ratification and the role of civil society in …

(13 September 2022) African Center for Justice and Peace Studies (ACJPS) would like to draw the attention of Sudanese transitional authorities, South Sudanese Government, United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyi, United Nations Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in Sudan, United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in …

(23 August, 2022) African Center for Justice and Peace Studies (ACJPS) calls for urgent investigations into the deaths of Mr. Azrag Barnabas, a former Christian leader in Garsilla Church who died in November 2021 and his three children who died on 13 July 2022 under unclear and suspicious circumstances. The …