There are twenty-five members of the Advisory Council for Human Rights, appointed by the minister of justice. The presidential decree establishing the Advisory Council for Human Rights states that the council shall be constituted with the minister of justice and attorney general (one person) as the chair. The members, whose number is not specified, are to be appointed by the chair, with representation from the following bodies: the judiciary; the attorney general's chambers; the transitional national assembly (now the national assembly); the public security bureau; the ministries of foreign affairs, interior, labor and administrative reform, and culture and information; the relief commissariat; the refugees affairs commissariat; the faculties of law of universities; the bar association; and nongovernmental organizations working in the field of human rights. There are few genuine nongovernmental human rights organizations functioning in Sudan, and none are known to be on the Advisory Council for Human Rights.