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Human Rights – 2006

Some progress was made in drafting NHRC Act. The draft act was submitted to the legislative department of the Ministry of Justice. Once the review was completed at the Ministry of Justice, the act would be submitted for the approval of the Council of Ministers.¹ Nevertheless, the NHRC Act did not move forward. The NHRC was not established in 2006.

According to the Human Rights Watch, the human rights situation remained abysmal due to incidents of arbitrary arrests and detention, killings, looting and rape. Nevertheless, some progress was said made by the Government of Southern Sudan in terms of setting up the Human Rights Commission for the South.²

1. “The CPA Monitor-Monthly report on the Implementation of the CPA,” UNMIS, March 2006.
2. “World Report — 2007,” Human Rights Watch, 2007, accessed January 23, 2012, http://www.hrw.org/legacy/wr2k7/wr2007master.pdf.