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Sudan: Alkarama Condemns Generalised Practice of Torture, Unfair Trials and Other Violations in View of Sudan's Second UPR
SUD - News | 05 October 2015
On 21 September 2015, Alkarama transmitted its submission to the Stakeholder's Summary in view of the Sudan's second Universal Periodic Review (UPR) by the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) which is expected to be held during its 25th Session in April-May 2016. In its submission, Alkarama stressed that despite the adoption of a National Action Plan for the protection of human rights for the period 2013-2023, the situation since Sudan's first UPR review in 2011 had not changed and that torture, unfair and military trials and violations of the rights to freedom of expression and of association were still prevailing in the country.
Sudan: Enforced Disappearance and Torture of Political Activist
SUD - News | 30 September 2015
On 16 September 2015, Alkarama and the Arab Coalition for Sudan (ACS) sent an urgent appeal to the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) regarding the abduction of member of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party, Babacar Moussa Issa, by the National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) on 27 August 2015. Secretly detained by the NISS, Babacar would have been repeatedly subjected to torture since his arrest.
Sudan: Urged by UN to Adopt Clear Definition of Torture and Put an End to Practice of Arbitrary Detention
SUD - News | 13 August 2014
The Human Rights Committee, the treaty body monitoring the implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), held its 111th session in July 2014. On this occasion, the Committee reviewed Sudan's fourth periodic report and issued its concluding observations.
Sudan: Bring domestic laws in line with the absolute prohibition of torture
SUD - News | 26 November 2013
During its Universal Periodic Review (UPR) by the UN Human Rights Council in 2011, Sudan accepted to consider ratifying the International Convention against Torture (CAT), in follow up to its 1986 signature of the treaty. 2013 is coming to an end and Sudan has failed to act upon its promise.
Sudan: Authorities Must Release Detained Journalists Immediately and Investigate Violations
SUD - News | 12 June 2013
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