On Sudan, Darfur, the Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict, Ms. Radhika Coomaraswamy, has concluded a two-day visit to Darfur, as part of wider visit to Sudan. In Darfur, she met a cross-section of stakeholders in the peace process, in El Fasher in the North and El Geneina, South Darfur. The personalities she met included the Walis -- or Governors -- of the two states, religious and community leaders and internally displaced persons.
Coomaraswamy expressed satisfaction that efforts were being made to establish institutions to monitor and address the problems of the recruitment of child soldiers as well as sexual abuse and violence against children. She appealed to religious leaders to raise awareness in their different constituencies about these issues. During meetings with youth and with sheikhs and umdas (traditional leaders) in the Riyad camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in El Geneina, the IDPs highlighted challenges they were facing, especially the lack of security, food and medicines. Coomaraswamy is currently on a 10-day visit in the Sudan, which is expected to end on Monday 23 November.
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