Thematic Reports

The 17-year-old girl was raped at gunpoint by the military officer in her house in Tour village, Central Darfur state (2 May 2020) The African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies (ACJPS) calls for urgent steps to be taken to investigate and hold to account the perpetrator of rape of a …

Sudan’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic must include everyone, including those forced by internal insecurity to flee their homes. (20 April 2020) African Center for Justice and Peace Studies (ACJPS) is deeply concerned about the potential impact that COVID-19 could have on the already vulnerable thousands of Sudanese internally displaced …

(9 April 2020) African Center for Justice and peace Studies (ACJPS) welcomes the release of 4,217 male prisoners from Al-Huda prison located in the city of Omdurman, twin city of the capital Khartoum on 26 March 2020. Their release came after the Sudan Sovereign Council passed a resolution on 23 March …

(Khartoum, Kampala and Paris) 31January 2020 – The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and its Sudanese member organisations, the African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies (ACJPS) and the Sudan Human Rights Monitor (SHRM), denounce the attack that took place on the Krinding IDP camp in December 2019. According …

(10 January 2020) This report aims to document human rights violations that occurred between December 13, 2018, to April 11, 2019, to contribute to the efforts to ensure accountability, equity and the rule of law. The report bears witness to and chronicles the widest detention campaign since 1989 including arrests …

(30 August 2019) August 31, 2019 will mark the one-year anniversary since the untimely passing of Dr Amin Makki Madani, a human rights lawyer, a member of African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies’ (ACJPS) International Board of Directors and one of the pioneers of human rights movement both in …

Joint Press Release (30 August 2019) On the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearance, five leading human rights organisations are calling on African states to end the use of enforced disappearances and ensure justice and reparations for thousands of victims in Africa. For decades, thousands of people including …

(28 August 2019) The African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies (ACJPS) welcomes the recent commitment expressed by the Sudanese authorities towards accountability for gross human rights violations committed in the country with impunity for decades by signing a Constitutional Charter for the 2019 Transitionary period  that mandates the Sovereign …

(2 August 2019) The African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies (ACJPS) calls on the international community to urgently investigate the killing of six peaceful protesters that occurred on 29 July 2019 in El Obeid, the capital of North Kordofan, Sudan. The international community, including the United Nations Human Rights Council …

22 July 2019 This report is based on the work of internationally trained local monitors on the ground in South Sudan working for a national human rights organization. Both these monitors and the organization must remain anonymous given present security concerns. The information reported meets the threshold for initiating an …