COMMON ANALYSIS
Last update: June 2025
As noted in the chapter on 3. Refugee status, some profiles of applicants from Sudan may be at risk of torture or inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment (see for example 3.2. Individuals fearing forced recruitment by the RSF, 3.3. Members of the Resistance committees (RCs) and Emergency Response Rooms (ERRs), 3.4. Members of political parties, unions and civil society organisations, 3.6. Journalists and other media workers, 3.9. Women and girls, 3.10. Children, 3.11. Persons with diverse SOGIESC). In such cases, there would often be a nexus to a reason for persecution falling under the definition of a refugee, and those individuals would qualify for refugee status. However, with reference to cases where there is no nexus to a Convention ground, the need for subsidiary protection under Article 15(b) QD/QR should be examined.