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Human Rights Developments Defending Human Rights The Role of the International Community While one organization, the National Alliance for the Restoration of Democracy, continued in outspoken defense of political detainees and others, no other independent human rights organization existed in government-controlled areas until a small group, operating with a commercial rather than nonprofit license, started up low profile in mid-2000. Independent attorneys defended those tried for sabotage, conspiracy, and related charges but the judicial system remained useless for security cases. Churches attempted to defend their parishioners' rights, and the Dinka committee retrieving enslaved Dinka children continued its work, under government CEAWC sponsorship. Women's groups, usually considered less threatening, were organized on a small scale and made their voices heard when the Khartoum governor attempted to ban some women's work. Human rights monitors operated in the SPLA areas of the Nuba Mountains, but there were no human rights organizations in southern rebel-held areas. The Nairobi-based South Sudan Law Society and women's organizations such as Sudanese Women's Association in Nairobi (SWAN) raised human rights issues in various forums. The Sudan Human Rights Association, based in Kampala, monitored conditions at Sudanese refugee camps in Kenya and Uganda. The New Sudan Council of Churches in Nairobi (encompassing churches working in rebel areas of Sudan) conducted one other peace and reconciliation meeting, but was slow to reinforce the Wunlit agreement of 1999. |
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