Sudanese authorities close women’s rights centre

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the Sudan Tribune
25 June, 2014
Sudanese authorities close women’s rights centre

June 25, 2014 (KHARTOUM) – Sudanese authorities this week ordered the closure of a women rights centre in Khartoum without any explanation, said a statement by the Confederation of Sudanese Civil Society Organisations (CSCSO) on Wednesday.

“On 24 June 2014 the director of Salmmah Women’s Resource Centre, Ms Fahima Hashim, was presented with a decree signed and stamped by the Sudanese ministry of justice, issuing an order for the cancellation of the registration licence of the company and its immediate liquidation,” said the statement

The justice ministry also appointed a five-person committee to oversee the Salmmah centre’s dissolution process, but its decision did not explain the reason behind the closure.

The group was established in 1997 by a number of women’s rights activists as a non-profit civil society organisation to support women’s organisations and women’s issues, with special devotion to the combat of violence against women and to the acquisition of human rights.... MORE at link posted above