Our Mission: To champion universal access to rights based information and services to vulnerable and underserved communities through sustainable innovations, humanitarian support, strategic partnerships, rights empowerment, capacity building, research and advocacy. 1.3 A Brief Background This year (2017), fighting and violations in the two areas (SK and BN) had relatively reduced mainly in the state of Blue Nile. This was attributed to the pressure from the international community (appendix – 1), the earlier talks between United States of America USA and Sudan government regarding lifting of economic sanctions against Sudan that was lifted on October 20171. The continuous ceasefire pronouncements by both Sudan government2 and Sudan People Liberation Army-North (SPLA-N) reduced on the conflict. However the state of emergency declared on the two states is still going on. Also, the pressure and the visit of the USA’s deputy secretary of State contributed in significantly reducing the violations against Christians especially the Christ and Evangelical churches (appendix – 2). However, on 6th January 2018 the USA government included Sudan on the list of countries violating religious rights/freedom (Appendix - 3). The other major aspect to be considered is the division/ factions within the SPLA-N since March 2017. This hindered the political development in terms of negotiations with the Sudan government and also caused divisions among civilians allied to SPLM-N. On the government territory, harassment of civilians affiliated to SPLM-N by security agencies reduced. 1.4 Statement of the problem The general state of insecurity and violations persisted because SK and BN are still under the state of emergency “as declared by the president of Sudan in 2011”. Many atrocities like arbitrary arrests, torture, assault, detaining people incommunicado, 1 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-sudan-usa-sanctions/u-s-lifts-sudan-sanctions-wins-commitment-againstarms-deals-with-north-korea-idUSKBN1CB26Q 2 https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/sudan-govt-declared-ceasefire-to-appease-us-opposition https://www.newvision.co.ug/new_vision/news/1456788/sudan-extends-ceasefire-conflict-zones 2