Press Release

APRIL 20, 2005

Correct Decision to Commission a Special Rapporteur

SHRO-Cairo welcomes the UN Human Rights Commission resolution to appoint a Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights Situation in Sudan with a special focus on Darfur.
The Organization supports the Commission's strong condemnation of the attacks on civilians, including extra-judicial killings, tortures, forced disappearance, destruction of villages, and the widely-committed acts of violence including rapes of women and children, in addition to armed robbery, and displacement, unlawful abduction and the un-punishable criminality due to the chaotic non-prosecution of wrong-doers.
SHRO-CAIRO is also concerned with the Commission for the continuous violation of international law in different parts of the country, including death penalty, violations of women’s rights, especially sex crimes, and the unabated restrictions on the freedoms of thought and expression and the right to religious belief, the freedom of peaceful assembly and the other civil rights and freedoms besides arbitrary arrest and detention and abduction.
The Organization has repeatedly expressed grave concerns for the decision of the Commission’s 59th session that terminated the important mission of the Special Rapporteur - a decision that didn’t help to improve the situation of human rights in the country.