Rights group initiates campaign to raise awareness of Sudan’s CPA

Mindful of the great hopes with which our people welcomed the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) and their expectations that fighting and bloodshed will stop and that peace and love will return to the whole of the country;

Confirming the fact that the CPA and the National Interim Constitution (NIC) are important steps towards the protection of human rights, democracy and the rule of law in Sudan;

The Khartoum Centre for Human Rights and Environmental Development (KCHRED) has initiated a long-term campaign to inform the public about the CPA and the Bill of Rights in the NIC of 2005. This is done in recognition of the importance of implementing the CPA and the Bill of Rights, and in support of the principle of unity based on justice,
human rights and the rights of all citizens to enjoy their constitutional rights in accordance with international standards as stipulated in article 27 of the Bill of Rights in the NIC of 2005.

KCHRED, in its support for the democratic transformation of Sudan, recognises the Bill
of Rights and the CPA as important documents that guarantee the rights of all Sudanese.
They are also the basis for harmonising Sudanese laws with the NIC and international
standards and for placing the country on the road to justice, democracy, unity and peace.

In recognition of the important role of civil society organisations in the actual
implementation of the CPA and the NCI, KCHRED aims through this campaign to
engage all Sudanese civil society organisations and other popular sectors, and to
encourage their positive participation in advancing and implementing the CPA and in
securing the enforcement of the Bill of Rights.

All this is based on a strong conviction that the only way to ensure free, fair and
democratic elections is for such elections to be held in an atmosphere of transparency and
peace. Such an atmosphere cannot be maintained without the observance of the rights and
freedoms enshrined in the CPA without discrimination.

We are also convinced that unity can only be built on the basis of the CPA and the NIC,
and that justice and peace in Darfur cannot be achieved without realising the rule of law,
and without following the example set by the CPA.

Amir Muhammad Suliman

Chair of Khartoum Centre for Human Rights and Environmental Development