Sudanese child rights advocates are working to ban the death penalty for people under eighteen years of age.

Dr Omayma Abdel-Wahab of Sudan's National Council for Child Welfare said that her organization along with UNICEF is undertaking a workshop aimed at reviewing the death penalty for children with an aim to abolish the practice.

She said the workshop has come up with a number of recommendations including the enforcement of Article 77 (d) of the Child Law 2010 to prevent execution of the death penalty for children. They have also recommended that children only be tried by child courts while stressing the importance of issuing birth certificates to children.

Dr Omayma said they are still at the beginning stages of developing an operational plan to abolish the death penalty for children. She said they are studying national and international laws and constitutions and will also take note of jurisprudential and psychological recommendations regarding the practice.