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Human Rights – 2007

The Government of National Unity in July 2007 submitted the NHRC Bill to the National Assembly to be discussed at the Assembly’s Human Rights Committee in October.¹ Nevertheless, no significant progress was made in terms of establishing the NHRC as well as the Human Rights Commission for the South. Human Rights Watch suggested in its report that the security forces killed and injured seven people involved in protests against two dam projects in northern Sudan. Also, arbitrary arrests and detention of journalists, activists as well as restrictions on freedom of expression persisted.²

1. “The CPA Monitor-Monthly report on the Implementation of the CPA,” UNMIS, February 2009.
2. “World Report — 2008,” Human Rights Watch, 2008, accessed January 23, 2012, http://www.hrw.org/legacy/wr2k8/pdfs/wr2k8_web.pdf.