SHIA Women's Advocacy Group Calls for End to Lashing in Sudan

A women’s advocacy group called SIHA, Strategic Initiative on Women in the Horn of Africa (SIHA) highlighted Sudanese women’s rights with a presentation to an African human rights commission. SIHA wants Sudan to amend the Criminal Law of 1991 and abolish the penalty of lashing.

SIHA refers to that trousers case in its paper, titled “Beyond Trousers: The Public Order Regime and the Human Rights of Women and Girls in Sudan.” The public order regime in Sudan is a set of laws and mechanisms which, in addition to dealing with matters of public security, prohibit and enforce a range of behaviour from dancing at private parties, to “indecent dress”, to intention to commit adultery.

The Regional Director of the SIHA Network, Hala Alkarib, said that SIHA is presenting its submission “on behalf of Sudan’s men and women who stood against the Public Order Regime during the ‘trouser case’.” via Sudan Tribune

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