by admin_HRWF | May 12, 2020 | Women's Rights & Gender Equality
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) welcomed the landmark move by Sudan’s transitional government this week to criminalize female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C), with a three-year jail sentence for offenders. UN News (02.05.2020) –...
by admin_HRWF | Apr 16, 2020 | Freedom of Religion and Belief
CSW (09.04.2020) – https://bit.ly/2Ka3MV4 – The Sudanese Minister of Religious Affairs and Endowments has appointed five commissioners to investigate a series of attacks on the Sudan Church of Christ (SCOC) Jabarona, which took place in December 2019 and...
by admin_HRWF | Oct 17, 2019 | Uncategorized
– HRWF (17.10.2019) – Hamo Azhari has been trapped in Istanbul airport where he is at risk of being deported back to Sudan due to a transit visa issue. Hamo is an ex-Muslim who fled from his home country (Sudan), where the penalty for apostasy is death....
by admin_HRWF | Jun 13, 2019 | Women's Rights & Gender Equality
Hospitals in Khartoum record more than 70 cases of rape in aftermath of attack on protest By Zeinab Mohammed Salih and Jason Burke The Guardian (11.06.2019) – https://bit.ly/2WVYKna – Doctors believe paramilitaries carried out more than 70...
by admin_HRWF | Mar 13, 2019 | Freedom of Religion and Belief
More than 30 churches have been burned down in the Nuba Mountains area of Sudan By Rebecca Paveley Church Times (08.03.2019) – https://bit.ly/2JfheJR – AT LEAST 32 churches have been burned down in the Nuba Mountains area of Sudan over the...
