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SUDAN
Majlis Watani
Parliamentary bodies dealing with human rights :
Human Rights Committee

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Type of parliamentary body Specialized
Nature Permanent
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Mandate The Human Rights Committee shall be concerned with plans, policies, legislations and measures related to the following matters: (a) Promotion of the human rights and protection thereof in the Sudan, according to the bill of rights and freedoms in the constitution and in activation of the national legislations and the international obligations; (b) Awareness of public life duties in return for rights and call for their fulfilment, and spread of general consciousness of same in the society; (c) Coordination and contact with the organizations working in the field of the rights and duties inside the country and abroad.
Membership By their own choice (for 4 years).
Working methods Individual compliance; information from members; reports to Parliament; on-site inquiries.
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Relations with external bodies
Subjects dealt with Conditions of custody, prisons and location of displaced persons; inspection of Kober Prison for the Committee to acquaint itself with the intricacies and underlying reasons of the latest regrettable events; inspection of the conditions of custody in prisons and interviewing the relevant federal organs in the three states of Darfur and Kassala.
CONTACT INFORMATION
Main address The Peoples Hall
Omdurman
Postal Code: 14416
SUDAN

Phone +249 1 87 55 85 37
Fax +249 1 87 56 09 50
E-mail info@parliament.gov.
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PRESIDING OFFICER(S)
Name Mr. Hamadto Mukhtar Musa
Notes Chairman
Address (if different from above)
Phone +249 1 539 76 28, +249 1 555 80 81
Fax +249 1 556 09 50
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Name Mr. ... Barsilla
Notes Chairman
SECRETARY

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