Reports, research projects and submissions

Research Projects

• The UK Prison System: Compliance with International Human Rights Law, March 2019 (PDF)
• UK Network on Prohibition of Torture, December 2017 (PDF)
• Constitution Building in the African Union

Reports

• Deep and harmful: Addressing the root causes of human rights violations and impunity in Sudan and the need for transformative justice (PDF, 605KB) 
• Ruining a country, devastating its people (PDF, 1.54MB) 
• "Your life isn’t worth the price of a bullet": Examining serious human rights violations in Sudan since 25 October 2021, June 2022 (PDF)
• Sudan's Democratic Transition on Life Support, June 2022 (PDF)
• Immigration detention and torture: Submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture on psychological torture and ill-treatment, November 2019 (PDF)
• Human Rights and Democratic Change in Sudan, January 2019 (PDF)
• Policy Paper: Strategies to tackle the root causes of human trafficking in the Horn of Africa: Complementing anti-trafficking laws with freedom of movement, November 2017 (PDF)
• A coherent European Union policy on mixed migration in the Horn of Africa: Participatory, contextual and rights-based, November 2017 (PDF)
• Tackling The Root Causes Of Human Trafficking And Smuggling From Eritrea, November 2017 (PDF)
• Strategies for human rights protection in Sudan: Challenges, gaps and new directions - CHRL, April 2017 (PDF)
• 2013 Conference Report, June 2013 (PDF)

Submissions

• Amicus Curiae Submission by the SOAS Centre for Human Rights Law to the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights on the compatibility of the death penalty with the right to life and the prohibition of torture and other ill-treatment under the African Charter. July 2025 (PDF)
• Urgent appeal by the SOAS Centre for Human Rights Law and the SOAS Centre for Palestine Studies, November 2021 (PDF)
• Amicus Curiae Submission by the SOAS Centre for Human Rights Law, March 2021 (PDF)
• Amicus Curiae Submission to the Istanbul Regional Court of Justice in the case of Professor Şebnem Korur Fincancı, Chairperson of the Human Rights Foundation of TurkeyKF Amicus_Eng,June 2019
• Sudan’s compliance with its obligations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights in the context of mixed migration from, and to Sudan, September 2018 (PDF)
• Sudan’s compliance with its obligations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights: Anti human trafficking initiatives, the rights of refugees and the human rights of migrants, January 2018 (PDF)
• The Government's Proposed Derogation from the ECHR, Written Evidence submitted - CHRL, March 2017 (PDF)
• Comments by the Centre for Human Rights Law on the Draft Revised General Comment on the implementation of article 3 of the Convention in the context of article 22 - CHRL, March 2017 (PDF)
• Comments by the Centre for Human Rights Law on Draft update of General Recommendation No.19 (1992) on gender based violence against women, September 2016 (PDF)
• The Khartoum Process policy of engagement and human rights protection in Sudan: Written Evidence submitted by the Centre for Human Rights Law to the UK All Parliamentary Party Group on Sudan and South Sudan Inquiry on UK-Sudan Relations − Consequences of Engagement, August 2016 (PDF)
• Submission on the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights Zero Draft of the General Comment on the Right to Redress for Victims of Torture or Ill-treatment under Article 5 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights, June 2016 (PDF)