End of moral prohibitions: Women celebrate as Sudan revokes public order law

Sudan's transitional authorities approved a law on vember 28 to dismantle regime of former President Omar al-Bashir and revoke a series of laws that used to regulate women's behaviour. law passed during a joint meeting of Sudan's sovereign counsel and cabinet also dissolved former President Bashir's political party and confiscated all of his properties. Sudan is currently run by a joint military and civilian council. civilian-led cabinet is heed by Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok who took to Twitter to pay tribute to women. 

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new law was passed in response to a key demand of protest movement that helped overthrow Bashir's government back in April. While talking to an international media outlet, Aisha Musa, one of two women on Sudan's new Sovereign Council said that former regime focused on how women dressed and acted inste of focusing on nation's education and healthcare. She furr ded that it is about time that all corruption and ill-treatment of women of Sudan should stop. While people celebrated in streets of capital Khartoum, al-Bashir's National Congress Party (NCP) criticised by calling it new 'illegal government', say reports. party has also accused authorities of trying to confiscate NCP properties to help tackle Sudan's ecomic crisis. 

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Public order law

According to reports, public order law was described as a blend of legal and moral prohibitions. law gave authorities power to control what women wore, with whom y spoke to and met, and any job y might hold. law was also kept 'vague and open-ended' which left m open to exploitation as a social control tool by authorities. Under former regime, laws were furr deployed to impose conservative Islamic social codes. Prime Minister Hamdok reportedly called rule an instrument of exploitation, humiliation, violation, aggression in rights of citizens. Seif Magango of Amnesty International while praising new law said that it is a big step forward for women's rights in Sudan. Magango furr ded that transitional government w must ensure entire oppressive public order regime is also abolished. 

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