Deep and Harmful: Addressing the Root Causes of Human Rights Violations and Impunity in Sudan and the Need for Transformative Justice

This report was submitted to the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission for Sudan on 3 July 2024. It was prepared by the SOAS Centre for Human Rights Law, ACCESS, and REDRESS. The submission builds on over two decades of engagement, including law reform advocacy and litigation, particularly in cases of torture before the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, as well as research on justice for serious human rights violations in Sudan. It identifies the root causes of human rights violations and impunity in Sudan, which encompass political, legal, social, economic, and cultural factors that have engendered violence and a lack of accountability.