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...
UN mission to Sudan: Darfur atrocities bear ‘hallmarks of genocide’
A report by the UN fact-finding mission released today says that ethnically targeted killings, widespread sexual violence, and enforced disappearances carried...
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...
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...
‘Sudan’s war has become a systematic assault on women’
Sudan’s war, now more than 1,000 days old, has shifted from a military confrontation to what feminist and human rights...
Sudanese refugee children haunted by traumas of war
By Abdelmoneim Madibu for Radio Dabanga During the days of the Ugandan general elections, the sight of security planes flying...
12 Sudanese girls gang-raped in eastern Chad – refugees appeal to govt, UNHCR for better security
Sudanese refugees in eastern Chad are appealing for increased security measures after a group of at least 12 Sudanese girls...
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