Constitutional protection of human rights seminar

Faculty of Law Training, Scientific and External Relations Unit, University of Khartoum
In Collaboration with the Sudan Human Rights Monitor
Seminar
The Constitutional Protection of Human Rights in Sudan:
Challenges and Future Perspectives
وحدة التدريب والبحث العلمى والعلاقات الخارجية بكلية القانون جامعة الخرطوم بالتعاون مع المرصد السودانى لحقوق الأنسان
سمنار
الحماية الدستورية لحقوق الأنسان فى السودان: تحديات وروى مستقبلية
قاعة الشارقة, الأربعاء 15 يناير 2014، الساعة العاشرة صباحآ حتى الخامسة مساءآ


Program
Wednesday 15 January,
Sharja Hall, 10 am-5pm
9:30-100 am Registration
10:00- 10:15 am Opening Remarks
Representative of Human Rights Monitor
Representative of the Faculty of Law, University of Khartoum

10:15- 12:00 am
First Panel:
Chair: Dr. Abuzer El gifari Bashir
Associate professor,
Head Commercial Law Department

10:15- 10:45 am Sudanese constitutions and Constitutionalism, the Protection of Rights and Rule of Law
Dr. Amin Mekki Medani,
Lawyer and Former Representative of the UN Office of the High Commissioners for Human Rights

10:45- 11: 15 am Why Constitutional Bills of Rights fail to protect Civil and Political Rights in Sudan? Conflicting Rights, Gaps and ‘Arrested’ Reception of International Human Rights Law
Dr. Mohamed Abdelsalam,
Associate Professor of Law, Head, International and Comparative Law Department,
Faculty of Law, University of Khartoum
11:15- 12:00 noon Discussion
12:00- 12:30 pm Lunch Break
12:30- 13:30 Second Panel:
Chair, Dr. Tayeb Murkaz, Associate Professor
Dean, Faculty of Law, University of Khartoum
12:00- 12:30 am Economic, Social and Cultural Rights under the Constitutional Bill of Rights in the Sudan the Interim National Constitution, 2005
Ahmed AbdelGadir Ahmed
Lecturer, Head, Public Law Department
13:00:13:30 pm Women Rights in the Constitution Bill of Rights: Issues of Status, Equality and Non-Discrimination
Ebtisam Sanhouri
Lecturer of Constitutional Law and Human Rights Faculty of Law, Khartoum University, Public Law Department
13:00: 14: 00 pm Discussion

14: 00: 14: 15 pm Tea Break

14:15-16:00 pm Third Panel:
Chair, Dr. Tayeb Murkaz, Associate Professor
Dean, Faculty of Law, University of Khartoum
14:15- 14:45 am Children Rights and the Forthcoming Constitutional Bill of Rights of Sudan
Dr. Khadeija Elsheik
Assistant Professor,
International and Comparative Law Department,
Faculty of Law
University of Khartoum
14:45: 15:15 am The Sudanese Constitutional Courts and the International Bill of Rights
Dr. Ali Suliman Fadlalla,
Associate Professor of Law, Former Dean, Fellow, Faculty of Law, University of Khartoum
15: 15: 16:00 pm Discussion
16:00- 14:15 pm Recommendations /Concluding Session






Your participation in the conference proceedings is highly appreciated.