Sudan

The Southern Sudan Human Rights Commission on Friday staged a march on the streets of Juba mobilizing women to go and register for upcoming referendum. The march started from Women Union to the Southern Sudan Legislative Assembly where a number of speeches were delivered.

Forty-six African governments have signed the Maputo Protocol, properly known as the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on Women in Africa.

Sunday, November 4, 2010, (JUBA) – The South Sudan Human Rights Commission said on Thursday said that effective mechanisms need to be put in place to address human rights issues particularly those associated with gender rights.

Victor Lado Caesar Tombe, executive officer of the commission says that many women and girls in south Sudan suffer from exploitation, trafficking, gender based violence.

Forty-six African governments have signed the Maputo Protocol, properly known as the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on Women in Africa.

November 17, 2010 (RUMBEK) – Voter registration centers in Rumbek, the capital of Lakes state, have recorded a low female turn out despite more people registering on the second day.

On Tuesday, staff at Matangai, Achol-theen, Malual-bab and Rumbek Freedom Square voter registration centers told Sudan Tribune that they had witnessed a low female turn out.

November 17, 2010 (JUBA) - Implementation of the disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR) program in Sudan will continue regardless of the outcome of next year's referendum on southern independence according to Riek Machar Teny the region's Vice President.

United Nations -- With barely 55 days left until a referendum on independence for southern Sudan, the U.N. Security Council is putting pressure on both sides of the country's north-south divide to ensure the vote takes place on time and civil war is averted.

Women in the Sudanese region of Darfur have been raped with impunity since the start of the conflict there in 2003. Now a campaign to reform the rape law is gaining momentum in the country, promoted by Alliance 149, a national coalition born in late 2009.

Ekhlas Garang one of the thousands of Sudanese women who believe in national unity. Reports Zuleikha Abdel Raziq

As South Sudan self-determination referendum deadline nears, the Sudanese political arena becomes blusterous and dominated by intensive activities overwhelming emphasizing the merits of unity and hazards of Sudan partitioning.

Juba - Kajo-Keji MP Mary Kiden has urged Southern Sudanese women not to underrate the upcoming referendum because “it is about life and death”.

Addressing female lawyers at Sahara hotel in Juba this Tuesday the MP said, “we cannot waste a single minute because this is all about the future of our nation.”