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 الأمين العام للأمم المتحدة مهتم بمحكمة لبنى
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Ki-Moon says deeply concerned by Sudan trousers trial
Sunday 2 August 2009 06:15.
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August 1, 2009 (KHARTOUM) — UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon said on Wednesday that he is deeply concerned by the Situation of a UN a staff member working in Sudan who faces 40 lashes for wearing "indecent" trousers in public.
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Lubna Ahmed Al-Hussein (AFP)
The UN local staff and journalist had been arrested with other Sudanese girls by the Public Order Police earlier in July for wearing trousers. Rights activists say she had been arrested in retaliation against her writings criticizing the Sudanese regime and extremists.
A Sudanese court on Thursday adjourned to August 4 the trial of Lubna after the UN Mission in Sudan said she works with the UNMIS and has immunity.
"The flogging is against international human rights standards," said Ban during his monthly press conference at the UN headquarters. "I call on parties to live up to their obligations under all relevant international instruments," he added.
"The United Nations will take every effort to ensure that the rights of its staff members are protected," he stressed.
Last week when she had been asked if she wants to benefit from the UNMIS immunity, Lubna, told the court she would give up immunity afforded UN staff workers and take the lashes to try to get the Sudanese law changed.
Sudanese women activists in a statement to support Lubna case said discriminatory laws against women "contradict the declared government commitment to the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) signed on 9 January 2005 and the National Interim Constitution."
Also, yesterday a Sudanese rights group, Sudan Human Rights Organisation-Cairo, called on the Sudanese government to abrogate "laws that violate the international norms aimed to promote the status of women and to maintain the civil, political, economic, social, and cultural rights of women on equal basis."
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http://www.sudaneseonline.com/spip.php?article32005
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