ACJPS/FIDH: At the UN, Sudan defends a piecemeal approach to its legal human rights obligations

07:29 PM September, 21 2016

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Geneva, Kampala, 21 September 2016: Sudan’s failure to accept key recommendations made during its second Universal Periodic Review (UPR) has confirmed the lack of political will to take concrete steps to implement its international legal obligations with regards to fundamental human rights, FIDH and its member organization, the African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies (ACJPS) said today.

“Sadly, Sudan failed to accept many of the key recommendations made by Human Rights Council member States that simply correspond to its existing international legal obligations” said Mossaad Mohamed Ali, ACJPS Executive Director. “Critical issues, such as the need to repeal laws that grant immunity from prosecution for officials, and to cease aerial bombardments of civilian areas, were side-stepped by the Government delegation”.

During the review, the government of Sudan failed to accept nine recommendations to reform Sudan’s notorious National Security Act of 2010 which grants the National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) wide powers of arrest, search and seizure, allows detention for up to four and a half months without judicial review, permits incommunicado detention without prompt unequivocal access to a lawyer of one’s choice or the right to medical care, and grants immunity to officials. Sudan failed to accept similar recommendations made during its first UPR, and has failed to implement recommendations made by the UN Human Rights Committee and African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights to the same effect. Just one month ago the UN Human Rights Committee, monitoring Sudan’s commitments under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), reminded Sudan for a second time to submit, without further delay, information on progress towards addressing this priority issue

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