Reports of amnesty for Sudanese women facing death by stoning: ‘Pardon suspends execution but does not invalidate the sentence’
Report by Suleiman Siri for Radio Dabanga The death sentence of two women in two separate cases has sparked widespread...
Sudan Doctors Network: 28 dead in Mistareeha raid – lawyers demand ICC take action
The Sudan Doctors Network says that the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) raid on the Mistareeha area in North Darfur on...
Sudanese women turn to enterprise after war and displacement
Report by Radio Al-Burair for Sudan Media Forum In a country worn down by nearly three years of war, mass...
EU envoy warns of ‘dangerous regression’ after women sentenced to death by stoning in Sudan
The head of the European Union mission to Sudan, Wolfram Vetter, has expressed deep concern over reports that two women...
Sudan war as recounted by women of Khartoum neighbourhood
Report by Hawa Rahma of Al-Alaq Centre for Press Services for Sudan Media Forum In Sudan, citizens trapped in conflict...
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UN High Commissioner Volker Türk, calls for accountability, more efforts to end war in Sudan
Briefing the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva today on the situation surrounding the North Darfur capital of El Fasher,...
UNSC to hold closed consultations on Sudan
The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) is due to hold closed consultations today on the situation in Sudan, amid renewed...
Sudan’s war threatens fragile progress against FGM
Each year, an estimated four million people worldwide are subjected to female genital mutilation (FGM). In Sudan, where prevalence has...
Minister of Social Welfare: ‘Sudan holds perpetrators of sexual violence accountable, including members of the regular forces’
Sudan’s State Minister at the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Welfare, Dr Salima Ishaq, has acknowledged that cases of...
Two women from El Gedaref and Blue Nile face death by stoning in Sudan prison
Activists and human rights defenders say that two women, from El Gedaref and Blue Nile respectively, are being detained in...
Op-ed: A land abandoned – The cost of global silence on Darfur
By Ikhlass Ahmed I write this not only from a place of pain but from the centre of an open...
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