14 September 2025
Committee for Justice (CFJ) took part in an important online seminar organized by the Caucus of Women in Politics in the Arab Region (CWPAR), titled:
“A Dialogue Session on Accountability and the Future of Peace in Sudan.”
“A Dialogue Session on Accountability and the Future of Peace in Sudan.”
This session formed part of CWPAR’s Track III work, led through a Women, Peace and Security (WPS) lens and grounded in a clear political commitment to gender accountability and collective healing as core pillars of any sustainable peace in Sudan. The space was intentionally designed to place women human rights defenders, survivors, and civil society actors at the center – not as observers of peace processes, but as knowledge holders and political actors shaping pathways to justice, accountability, and social repair.
During the discussion, Ahmed Mefreh, Executive Director of Committee for Justice (CFJ), spoke about the work of the UN Fact-Finding Mission on Sudan and the Fact-Finding Mission of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR). He focused on how Sudanese and regional civil society actors and human rights defenders can strategically engage these mechanisms to advance justice and accountability for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in the context of the ongoing conflict.
His intervention highlighted in particular:
- the importance of systematic and coordinated documentation of human rights violations, especially those affecting civilians on a large scale;
- the need to adopt survivor-centred approaches that place the safety, needs and dignity of victims at the heart of human rights work;
- the necessity of sustained engagement with international and African accountability mechanisms – including fact-finding missions, special procedures and regional courts – to ensure that documentation does not remain confined to reports, but is translated into concrete pathways toward justice, reparation, and guarantees of non-repetition;
- how feminist accountability frameworks can help transform evidence and documentation into real political leverage and long-term forms of justice.
The session also included interactive exchanges with Sudanese and Arab women human rights defenders and activists, exploring how documentation efforts on the ground in Sudan can be linked to regional and international mechanisms, the challenges defenders face amid ongoing violations, and ways to centre women’s roles in transitional justice processes and in building sustainable peace.
Committee for Justice expressed its deep appreciation for the work of the Caucus of Women in Politics in the Arab Region (CWPAR) in creating and sustaining this Track III space led by women human rights defenders, survivors and civil society actors – not as passive stakeholders, but as central political agents in mapping out accountability, justice and social repair in Sudan. CFJ strongly supports CWPAR’s clear stance that there can be no sustainable peace in Sudan without genuine gender accountability, and no accountability without collective healing that confronts structural violence, trauma and exclusion – and that treaties alone do not end wars; communities do, when they have the tools of justice, memory and organization.
CFJ reaffirms its commitment to continue working with partners in Sudan, the region and globally to strengthen accountability, support victims and survivors, and connect documentation efforts to legal and reform processes that can pave the way for a just and lasting peace in Sudan – keeping Sudan firmly and consistently in focus.
