Kuwait urges international community to end violence in Sudan

Kuwait has urged the international community, at the 24th session of Human Rights Council, on intensifying efforts to put an end to the ongoing violence and the abusive discriminate practices in Sudan. Diplomatic attache at Kuwait's permanent delegation to the United Nations Rania Al-Mulaifi addressed the assembly by saying that all donor countries should stay faithful to their pledges that were made in the Doha Agreement where a compensation fund for the victims of the Darfur conflict was established. "It is important to the Sudanese government to be provided with the necessary technical support to improve the humanitarian situation in the civil-war torn country," the diplomat said in a session that focused on improving institutional mechanisms in Sudan. She lauded a UN Independent Expert's report on the human right situation in Darfur and commended the Sudanese government's cooperation in facilitating the making of this report. According to the Independent Expert's view that "the Government has made progress in putting in place necessary legislations and institutional mechanisms for improving the situation of human rights in the country" refers to promises to retain bill of rights provisions in a planned permanent constitution, yet to be adopted. Other indicators referenced by the expert are the adoption of a ten-year human rights plan of action to fight violence against women, children and other discriminatory crimes.