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Author: Suraiya Zubair Banu

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Suraiya Zubair Banu

Suraiya Zubair Banu is a legal researcher working on Islamic law, criminal justice, gender and sexuality. She is currently based in Khartoum, Sudan. Follow her on twitter at @SuraiyaZB.

  • Local judges attend a human rights workshop in North Darfur. Credit: Albert González Farran/UNAMID.
    Editor's PicksPoliticsSocietySudan
    By Suraiya Zubair Banu
    July 3, 2019
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    A child’s death sentence highlights the fight over Sudan’s legal system

    In both the courtrooms and on the streets, activists are calling for Sudan’s legal system to uphold human rights. On 27 August, 2013, two boys lost ...
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  • The Sudan struggle links closely to others across the world
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    By Suraiya Zubair Banu
    January 29, 2019
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    On shared struggles: From Sudan to the gilets jaunes to #MeToo

    Sudan stands alone as it protests thirty years of oppression. And yet so much of its struggle resonates across Africa and the world. Sudan struggles alone. ...
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