The African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (the ACHPR) Held its 81st Ordinary Session at Sir Dawda Kairaba Jawara International Conference Centre, Kololi, The Gambia from 17 October – 6 November 2024. ACJPS participated in some of the sessions on Sudan and also presented an Oral statement before the commission.
The NGOs Forum is organized twice a year preceding the Ordinary Session of the ACHPR as a platform where updates on the human rights situation in Africa are tabled and discussed by the NGO community with a view of identifying possible remedies, which are forwarded to the African Commission as contribution to its work during a said Session.
Mr. Amir Suleiman, the ACJPS Legal Program Director, was one of the panelists at a side event orgainsed by DefendDefenders, SIHA, ACJPS, and African Defenders during the 83rd Session of the ACHPR in Banjul, The Gambia. The panelists discussed the Human Rights and Humanitarian Situation in Sudan since the outbreak of the war, the role of ACHPR and the way forward for the people of Sudan.