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- Tuesday 23 October 2012
October 22, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – The head of Sudan’s main clerical authority, the Religious Scholars Committee (RSC), has publicly advocated girl child marriage, drawing the ire of women activists rights who called for an immediate ban (...)
- Monday 29 October 2012
October 27, 2012 (ADDIS ABABA) - Ethiopia’s Charities and Societies Agency (CSoA), announced Saturday that it has shut down 10 non-governmental organizations (NGOs) under the county’s new civil society and charity law.
CSoA decided to (...)
- Friday 12 October 2012
October 11, 2012 (JUBA) - The French government as part of the European Union has called for an immediate moratorium on the death penalty in South Sudan, saying the practice provides no alternative to fighting crime in the new nation. (...)
- Wednesday 5 September 2012
By Bonifacio Taban Kuich
September 4, 2012 (BENTIU) - Authorities in Unity State have confirmed that in July this year they arrested a South Sudanese man for selling counterfeit foreign currency. The police say they are also looking (...)
- Saturday 2 March 2013
March 2, 2013 (JUBA) - South Sudan’s chief justice, Chan Reec Madut, has been forced to deny nepotism in his decision to appointment of one of his daughters as a legal assistant. The appointment has drawn strong public criticism in (...)
- Monday 3 September 2012
September 2, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – Sudan’s Supreme Court rejected for the second time a challenge by the country’s National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) against a daily newspaper that published a story about the rape of a female (...)
- Friday 8 March 2013
March 7, 2012 (JUBA) – A European Union (EU) envoy has called for an independent judiciary in South Sudan, describing it as a “cornerstone” for the rule of law and respect for fundamental human rights in the new nation. South Sudan Chief (...)
- Friday 20 July 2012
July 19, 2012 (JUBA) - The Republic of South Sudan, on Monday, agreed to the 1949 Geneva Conventions and their additional protocols related to the humanitarian treatment of the victims of war, after a bill was passed by the National (...)
- Monday 17 September 2012
September 16, 2012 (JUBA) - The Government of South Sudan and its partners should be fully supported in efforts to build the capacity of rule of law institutions as a mechanism of addressing the shortfalls in its human protection (...)
- Monday 5 November 2012
November 5, 2012 (JUBA) - The death penalty debate in South Sudan has gone global, with a group of South Sudanese and human rights groups urging the young nation to join the great majority of United Nations members that have abolished (...)
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