Sudan: Authorities falling short of many human rights commitments, says new UN report

Sudanese authorities are failing to uphold many of the commitments made last year under an accord to end a decades-old civil war, according to a United Nations human rights report issued today (23 May). In a review of the situation in Sudan from December 2005 to April of this year, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), in cooperation with the United Nations Mission in Sudan (UNMIS), lists among major shortcomings the ill-treatment, detention and harassment of people who voice their concerns about human rights throughout Sudan, failure to reform National Security and laws guarding State officials from criminal prosecution and the obstruction of the work of UNMIS human rights workers.