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Government and UN sign rights accord

    NAIROBI

    The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mary Robinson, on Wednesday agreed with the government to field an international expert on human rights in Sudan, initially for one year, in order to build the country’s capacity to promote and protect human rights. The expert would help formulate technical cooperation projects in the field of human rights, bearing in mind the report of a UN expert mission to Sudan in September 1999, a copy of the accord, received by IRIN, stated. The consultant would also report after a year on future activities to help Sudan develop policies, strategies and programmes to assure the vindication of human rights on the basis of international norms.

    This article was produced by IRIN News while it was part of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Please send queries on copyright or liability to the UN. For more information: https://shop.un.org/rights-permissions

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