African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies ACJPS | المركز الافريقي لدراسات العدالة و السلام
1 November 2013 Dear Commissioners, Urgent Fact-Finding Mission needed to investigate killings and detention by security forces in Sudan The undersigned organisations are writing to you to express our deep concern at the lack of action or public comments made by the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) …
Read More »Over 170 dead, including 15 children, and 800 detained as demonstrations spread throughout Sudan
Over 170 demonstrators confirmed dead, including 15 children, 500 confirmed injured, and over 800 detained (4 October 2013) The African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies (ACJPS) has confirmed the deaths of 170 people since protests began in Sudan on 23 September. At least fifteen of these fatalities are children. …
Read More »Sudan: Guarantee Safety and Give Access to Detained Human Rights Defenders
(4 October 2013) The African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies (ACJPS) and the East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defender Project (EHAHRDP) are deeply concerned for the safety of 23 human rights defenders who are amongst over 800 people who have been arrested in connection with anti-austerity and …
Read More »Bloody repression of protests in Sudan: FIDH and ACJPS call upon the African Union to Send an Urgent Commission of Inquiry
International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) African Center for Justice and Peace Studies (ACJPS) Paris, Nairobi, Kampala, 1 October 2013 – Over the past 7 days since the start of demonstrations in Sudan on 23 September, at least 170 people have been killed by the Sudanese authorities, hundreds more injured …
Read More »Sudan: Security forces fatally shoot dozens of protesters as demonstrations grow
(26 September 2013) The Sudanese security forces must immediately stop using arbitrary and unlawful force against protesters, the African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies and Amnesty International urged today, after confirming that at least 50 demonstrators were killed on Tuesday and Wednesday after being shot in the chest or …
Read More »Three protestors, including two children, killed by police at protest outside Government offices in Nyala
(24 September 2013) On 19 September police in Nyala, South Darfur shot and killed two children and one adult at a protest outside the South Darfur Government offices. The African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies (ACJPS) condemns the excessive use of force and calls for an immediate investigation with …
Read More »Omar Al Bashir at the UN General Assembly: U.S. must arrest him if he sets foot on U.S. territory
The Sudanese President, subject to arrest warrants for genocide and crimes against humanity, must be transferred to the International Criminal Court in The Hague FIDH, the African Center for Justice and Peace Studies (ACJPS) and in the United States, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and the Center for Justice …
Read More »Letter to Permanent Representatives of African States to the UN Human Rights Council
To: Permanent Representatives of African States to the UN Human Rights Council 12th September 2013 Re: Call for Action by African States to Protect Human Rights in Sudan at UN Human Rights Council 24th Session (9-27 September 2013) Excellency, The undersigned African civil society organisations are writing to urge …
Read More »UN Human Rights Council: Renew and Strengthen Special Procedure Mandate on the Situation of Human Rights in Sudan
(Geneva, September 9, 2013) – The UN Human Rights Council should extend and strengthen the mandate of the independent expert on the human rights situation in Sudan, a group of 20 international organizations urged in a letter to diplomats released today at the opening of the council’s 24th session. The groups urged the …
Read More »Letter to the Permanent Representatives of Member and Observer States to the UN Human Rights Council Regarding the Renewal and Strengthening of the Special Procedure Mandate on the Situation of Human Rights in Sudan
Permanent Representative of Member and Observer States to the UN Human Rights Council …
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