HRC36: Interactive Dialogue with the Independent Expert on Sudan
28 September 2017
Human Rights Council: 36th Session Item 10: Interactive Dialogue with
Human Rights Council: 36th Session Item 10: Interactive Dialogue with
22 CSO voice their extreme concern over the humanitarian and human rights situation in Sudan.
In an oral statement, Executive Director Hassan Shire updates the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the situation in the East and Horn of Africa, and calls to end the climate of impunity that has prevails in many countries across the sub-region.
In its biannual report to the African Commission on Human
(20 December 2016) A prominent Sudanese human rights defender (HRD),
We, the undersigned African and international non-governmental organizations, are writing to bring to your attention in your capacities as Special Procedure mandate holders worrying developments concerning the detention and trial of ten human rights defenders in Sudan. We urge you to call on the Government of Sudan to immediately and unconditionally drop all charges against ten staff members and affiliates of the Centre for Training and Human Development (TRACKs), an organization which provides training on a range of issues from IT to human rights, in two overlapping cases that include crimes against the state. Crimes against the state charges carry the death penalty […]
On the opening day of its 59th Ordinary session, DefendDefenders calls
Our organisations, the East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project and ACJPS, would like to express concern regarding the crackdown by the Government of Sudan on independent civil society, and the severe circumscription of the right to freedom of expression.
Despite Sudan’s commitments to ensure a safe and enabling environment for human rights defenders, civil society, the media, and members of the opposition, the East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project and the African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies remain extremely concerned by the repeated arbitrary detention of such actors in Sudan.
To Permanent Representatives of Members and Observer States of the