Women’s rights activists and organizations
Cases- Location of case in SG report
- 2016-029-001
- Relevant SG report
- Year of the report
- 2016
- From Country
- Country Geolocation
Latitude: 12.862807
Longitude: 30.217636
- Country Geolocation (linked Cases)
- Sudan
- From Region
- UN body that raised the case prior to the SG report
- UN Special Procedures: Thematic
- Dates of prior UN action
- 18 April 2016
- Type of record
- Unnamed individual/group/organization
- Was the victim a foreign national?
- No
- Was the victim a minor?
- No
- Type of rights defended
- Women’s rights
- Was the victim a civil servant or member of the security forces or of the judiciary?
- No
- Reported trigger of reprisal
in connection with the official visit to the country of the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences, from 13 to 24 May 2015
- Engagement with UN body
- UN Special Procedures: thematic
- Dates of engagement
- from 13 to 24 May 2015
- Type of attempted engagement
- Meeting with UN officials during country visit / with locally present UN officials
- Reprisal information
highlighted, in addition to the above-mentioned case, that fear of reprisals by women’s rights activists and organizations had resulted in many of them choosing not to meet with her and that, despite having raised concerns with the authorities, allegations of reprisals against interlocutors with whom she met and who attempted to meet with her continued to be received after she had left the country
- Types of reprisals suffered
- Threats/Intimidations (incl. "fear of reprisal")
- Alleged/likely perpetrators
- State actors
- Was the reprisal based on new legislation?
- No
- Does the report make general comment about country’s environment for engagement with UN?
- No
- Government response dates
- Unclear
- Government response content
Government responded that those claims sounded “strange and confusing” and instead referred to United Nations Development Programme staff who had not allowed members of women’s rights organizations to enter their building to meet with the Special Rapporteur for procedural reasons
- Is the country cited for a "pattern of reprisal" in the context of this case?
- No
- Is a pattern of reprisals mentioned otherwise in the context of this case?
- No
- Does the report cite "self-censorship" as an issue in the context of this case?
- No
- How many times has the case been followed up in subsequent SG reports?
- 0