Advocacy and Legal

UN/African Union: Reject ICC Withdrawal Security Council Meeting With AU (New York, September 22, 2016) The African Union (AU), in advance of a meeting with the United Nations Security Council on September 23, 2016, should end consideration of a call for mass withdrawal of its members from the International Criminal Court …

On 31 August 2016, the African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies and the REDRESS Trust made a submission to the UK All-Party Parliamentary Group on Sudan and South Sudan on the consequences of future engagement between the UK and the Government of Sudan. Our submission is below and linked …

(August 2016) Contrary to Sudan’s commitments to international human rights standards and its own domestic law, the Government of Sudan continues to implement the death penalty widely. Amnesty International reported that in 2015, Sudan handed down eighteen death sentences and carried out three executions. In 2014, Sudan was reported to …

Paris, Kampala, 12 May 2016 – Omar Al Bashir has arrived in Kampala to attend today’s inauguration ceremony for Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni. Our organisations urge the Government of Uganda to take all necessary measures to arrest Omar Al Bashir, Sudanese President and wanted International Criminal Court (ICC) fugitive, while …

UN human rights review of Sudan On 4th May 2016, representatives of the government of #Sudan will attend a United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council meeting in Geneva to discuss the human rights situation in Sudan. For a few hours, diplomats from UN Member States will ask the Government of …

(19 April 2016) The African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies (ACJPS) together with the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the International Refugee Rights Initiative (IRRI) today published a joint briefing for UN member states setting out key concerns and recommendations to improve the human rights situation in …

58th ORDINARY SESSION OF THE AFRICAN COMMISSION ON HUMAN AND PEOPLES’ RIGHTS Banjul, The Gambia, 4 – 20 April 2016 Oral Statement submitted under Item 8: Activity report of the Chairperson of the Working Group on the Death Penalty and Extrajudicial, Summary, or Arbitrary Killings in Africa Madame Chairperson, distinguished …

58th Ordinary Session of the Africa Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights Banjul, The Gambia, 6-20 April 2016 Public Session Item 3: Human Rights Situation in Africa Read by Angelina Seeka of End Impunity  Madame Chairperson, distinguished Commissioners, State Delegates, representatives of NHRIs and NGOs; all protocols respectfully observed. This …

(17 March 2016) The recent decision by the government of the Republic of Rwanda to withdraw its article 34(6) declaration of the Protocol on the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Establishment of the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights (the Protocol) represents a significant setback …

(8 March 2016) In February 2015, Sudan passed a number of amendments to the 1991 Criminal Act, including long-awaited amendments concerning rape and sexual violence. An amendment to Article 149 (rape) changed the legal definition of rape, and a new article 151 (3) was introduced, providing a new offence of …