Documents & Reports:

Reports:

• Periodic reports of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
• Reports of the Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights Situation in the Sudan

Sudan's Human Rights Commitments:

International Treaties

• International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (accession by Sudan in 1977)
• International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (accession by Sudan in 1986)
• International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (accession by Sudan in 1986)
• Convention on the Rights of the Child (ratified by Sudan in 1990)
• Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (accession by Sudan in 2003)
• Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography (accession by Sudan in 2004)
• Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict (ratified by Sudan in 2005)
• Convention against Torture (signed in 1986, but not yet ratified by Sudan)
• Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (signed in 2007, but not yet ratified by Sudan)

Constitutional Law

• Interim National Constitution (2005): Bill of Rights
• Interim Constitution of Southern Sudan (2005): Bill of Rights

Universal Declaration for Human Rights (UDHR)

Besides English and Arabic languages, the UDHR is also available in the following local Sudanese languages: Balande, Bari, Dinka, Nuer, Otuho and Shilluk