03/17/2006

During twenty-one years of war, governments of both the north and south of Sudan committed numerous violations of civil and political rights by killing and torturing their citizens, abducting people (including women and children), recruiting children into armed forces, attacking villages, and forcibly displacing millions of people. As a result of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, which ended the civil war between north and south in 2005, Sudan as a whole is governed by a Government of National Unity (GNU) and a semi-autonomous authority in the south, the Government of South Sudan (GOSS). Now as the international community assists the governments with implementing the peace agreement, they must both act to guarantee the civil, political, economic, social, and cultural rights of the south Sudanese, which continue to be denied.