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19 December 2014 To:  AFRICAN COMMISSION ON HUMAN AND PEOPLES’ RIGHTS: SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR ON HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS, MS REINE ALAPINI-GANSOU; SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR ON FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION AND ACCESS TO INFORMATION, MS FAITH PANSY TLAKULA; COMMISSIONER ON THE HUMAN RIGHTS SITUATION IN SUDAN, MR LAWRENCE MUTE UNITED NATIONS: SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR ON THE SITUATION OF …

(13 June 2014) Next month the United Nations Human Rights Committee will review Sudan’s progress implementing its obligations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR). The Committee will assess, amongst other things, Sudan’s compliance guaranteeing the right to life, the right to be free from torture and …

(April 2012) The African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies, the Sudan Democracy First Group and REDRESS (‘the Organisations’) submitted this alternative report to the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights in respect of Sudan’s Fourth Periodic Report (2008-2012). The report highlights the continued and widespread use of torture …

(April 2012) The African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies (ACJPS), East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project (EHAHRDP), and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) submitted this shadow report to the Republic of Sudan’s Fourth and Fifth periodic reports (2008 – 2012) to the African Commission …

(January 2012) In the months immediately preceding and following South Sudan’s referendum on independence, the Sudanese authorities launched a renewed campaign of systematic repression of freedom of expression featuring new tactics to intimidate and silence independent media in the country. Historically, the Sudanese government’s main method of silencing media was …