Sudan making efforts to improve human rights situation - spokesman
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June 24, 2013, (KHARTOUM) - Sudan’s minister of information and the
government spokesperson, Ahmed Bilal Osman, has asserted the
government’s keen desire to improve the human rights situation in the
country particularly with regards to press freedom.
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Sudanese minister for culture and information Ahmed Bilal Osman
(ASHRAF SHAZLY/AFP/Getty Images)
Bilal, who was addressing a training session on human rights
protection organized by Sudan’s National Human Rights Commission
(NHRC), Geneva Institute for Human Rights (GIHR), and the journalists’
union in Khartoum yesterday emphasized that the government is all for
objectivity, openness, and freedoms adding that press is an integral
and essential component of democracy.
He said that wars forced upon Sudan made human rights at the center of
the agenda targeting the country by external forces pointing to the
possibility of arriving at a compromise to overcome this situation.
The Swiss embassy in Khartoum, for its part, affirmed its commitment
to offer support and training for Sudanese people on human rights
issues.
The Swiss ambassador pointed out that his embassy supports the
framework project for human rights in Sudan, saying that this year
they have funded two projects on human rights culture in Darfur and
South Kordofan.
The head of the NHRC, Amal Al-Tinai, affirmed their determination to
fully play their role with impartiality and in accordance with the
constitution, saying that they would be the watchful eye on human
rights in Sudan.
Over the last year the government has cracked down on several
newspapers and think tanks going as far as closing some of then
indefinitely.
Furthermore, Sudanese security exercised pre-publication censorship on
newspapers until the measure was lifted last month by 1st VP Ali Osman
Taha.
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