Sudan’s Human Rights Crisis: High time to take Article 2 of the Covenant Seriously

Submitted to the UN Human Rights Committee ahead of its Examination of Sudan’s Fourth Periodic Report under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, June 2014.

REDRESS and the African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies (ACJPS) have brought to the attention of the UN Human Rights Committee the “serious, ongoing human rights crisis” in Sudan, marked by widespread and ongoing human rights violations. In a report submitted to the Committee, which will be reviewing Sudan’s human rights record on 8 and 9 July 2014, the organisations document the continued use of stoning, amputation and whipping in Sudan in violation of Sudan’s human rights obligations. They also draw attention to the killings and torture of hundreds of students, activists, journalists and human rights defenders by the intelligence and security forces, and the gross violations being carried out in armed conflicts in Darfur, South Kordofan and Blue Nile.