Event Description
Join international law experts on November 9 at 12:00 pm ET / 7:00 pm Khartoum time for an expert roundtable on the recently established independent fact-finding mission for Sudan, an international mechanism charged with investigating human rights abuses committed during the ongoing civil conflict.
In mid-April 2023, fighting broke out between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and a rival paramilitary group, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in Sudan. Hundreds have tragically lost their lives, including civilians, hundreds of thousands have been compelled to seek refuge elsewhere, and millions urgently require humanitarian assistance. Both parties to the conflict have been implicated in human rights abuses and atrocity crimes, prompting the UN Human Rights Council to adopt a resolution to establish an international fact-finding mission to investigate alleged violations.
This roundtable will be moderated by PILPG Senior Legal Advisor and prominent Sudanese lawyer Mohamed Elnu’man. Our panelists will discuss the scope and operations of investigative mechanisms established by the UN and how civilians may engage with the Sudan international fact-finding mission.
This is part of the PILPG Thought Leadership Initiative. The Initiative focuses on prominent international law and international affairs topics and organizes monthly expert roundtables to share expertise and reflections from our work on peace negotiations, post-conflict constitution drafting, and war crimes prosecution.
عن الحدث
ندعوكم للانضمام مع خبراء القانون الدولي في 9 نوفمبر / تشرين الثاني في تمام الساعة 12:00 مساءً بتوقيت الساحل الشرقي للولايات المتحدة، الساعة 07:00 مساءً بتوقيت الخرطوم لحضور ندوة اسفيرية حول بعثة تقصي الحقائق المستقلة التي تم إنشاؤها مؤخرًا للسودان، وهي آلية دولية مكلفة بالتحقيق في انتهاكات حقوق الإنسان المرتكبة خلال الحرب الأهلية المستمرة.
في منتصف أبريل / نيسان 2023، اندلعت اشتباكات بين القوات المسلحة السودانية وقوات الدعم السريع في السودان، مما أدى الى مقتل المئات من الأشخاص بطريقة مأساوية ومنهم العديد من المدنيين، واضطر مئات الآلاف إلى البحث عن مأوى في مكان آخر وبالإضافة الى احتياج الملايين في السودان إلى المساعدات الإنسانية. وقد تورط طرفا النزاع في انتهاكات لحقوق الإنسان وجرائم فظيعة، مما دفع مؤخراً مجلس حقوق الإنسان التابع للأمم المتحدة بإنشاء بعثة دولية لتقصي الحقائق والتحقيق في الانتهاكات المزعومة.
سيدير هذه الندوة الاسفيرية المستشار القانوني لمجموعة القانون الدولي والسياسات العامة والمحامي السوداني البارز محمد النعمان. سيناقش أعضاء اللجنة كيفية عمل آليات التحقيق التي أنشأتها الأمم المتحدة وكيف يمكن للمدنيين التفاعل مع بعثة التحقيق الدولية الخاصة للسودان.
يأتي هذا الحدث في إطار مبادرة مجموعة القانون الدولي والسياسات العامة للقيادة الفكرية والتي تركز على قضايا القانون الدولي والشؤون الدولية وتنظم حوارات شهرية مع المعنيين الخبراء وتتيح لنا ايضا الفرصة لطرح الموضوع من خلال خبرتنا كمجموعة القانون الدولي والسياسات العامة في مفاوضات السلام وصياغة الدستور بعد النزاع ومحاكمة جرائم الإبادة الجماعية.
Speakers
Betsy Popken
Betsy Popken is the Executive Director of the Human Rights Center (HRC) at UC Berkeley School of Law, where she leads a team conducting a global human rights assessment of generative AI and spearheads HRC's work on international peace negotiations, collaborating with the United Nations Institute on Training and Research (UNITAR) and the Public International Law & Policy Group (PILPG). Betsy also manages HRC's developing work in the climate and human rights space. Drawing from her real-world experience, Betsy teaches courses on Technology & Human Rights and International Peace Negotiations at Berkeley Law.
Previously, Betsy co-founded and co-led the Business & Human Rights practice at the law firm of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP.
She served on the World Economic Forum’s Steering Committee for the Responsible Use of Technology and published numerous articles on the intersection of technology and human rights.
Betsy also worked on United Nations-mediated peace and ceasefire negotiations in Darfur, Syria, and Yemen through PILPG, leading PILPG’s work with the Syrian opposition negotiation team. Betsy also founded and led PILPG’s Istanbul office in 2015-2016, and worked at this time throughout the Middle East and at the Palace of Nations in Geneva. Prior to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Betsy advised Ukraine's Parliament on how to vet the public sector. She currently serves as a Senior Peace Fellow for PILPG. Betsy previously taught negotiations at Stanford Law School and previously worked for California Rural Legal Assistance, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and the Pacific Council on International Policy.
Abdel Salam Sid Ahmed, PhD Political Science
Abdel Salam worked as a Research Associate and Lecturer at the British universities of Cambridge & Durham, and an Associate Professor at the Canadian University of Windsor, Ontario.
Abdel Salam worked for 10 years at Amnesty International as a researcher then as a Program Director for the Middle East & North Africa region.
In 2012, he joined the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and worked there for nine years during which, he oversaw the establishment of the Yemen country office, held the positions of the Regional Representative of the High Commissioner for the MENA Region, based in Beirut, and was Head of the UN Centre for Human Rights Training and Documentation.
Abdel Salam also previously worked as a Senior Human Rights Advisor to Sudanese Prime Minister of the Transitional Government, Abdallah Hamdouk, and the Minister of Justice (2020-2021).
Kyle Wood
Kyle is an international legal consultant and currently works as a consultant in relation to the United Nations Convention Against Torture. Previous to this, Kyle served as the Assistant Attorney General in the Washington State Attorney General’s Office. He previously spent a decade working with the Office of the Prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. In 2018, he was an investigator for PILPG’s investigation into allegations of atrocities committed against the Rohingya, as part of a team that interviewed more than 1,000 Rohingya refugees living in camps near Cox’s Bazar.
MODERATOR
Mohamed Elnu’man
Mohamed Elnu’man is a PILPG Senior Legal and Technical Advisor and a Former Senior Legal Advisor to the Minister at Sudan’s Ministry of Justice.