A/RES/56/175 Representative, including by holding a conference on the subject of internal displacement in the near future; (j) The people-to-people peace process at the grass-roots level, including the Nuer conference, held at Kisumu, Kenya, from 16 to 22 June 2001, which led to the Kisumu Declaration for Nuer Unity and Peace, and which, like other conferences held at the local level, should contribute to a comprehensive peace settlement in the context of the existing peace initiatives; (k) Recent measures to drop lawsuits against some political detainees as well as the liberation of some political detainees, while expressing its deep concern at the fact that at least some of the detainees were re-arrested shortly thereafter on the basis of the National Security Forces Act, thereby perpetuating their detention; (l) The steps taken by the Government of the Sudan towards the ratification of the International Labour Organization Convention concerning the Prohibition and Immediate Action for the Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labour (Convention No.182); (m) The reconvening of the National Assembly in April 2001; (n) The improved role of the National Press Council in monitoring complaints about the press; (o) The technical cooperation agreement signed by the Government of the Sudan and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on 29 March 2000 and the posting of an expert from the Office to the Sudan with the task of advising the Government on the development of national capacity to promote and protect human rights; (p) The demobilization and repatriation of more than 3,500 child soldiers in close cooperation between the Sudan People’s Liberation Army/Movement and the United Nations Children’s Fund; (q) The recent signature by the Sudan People’s Liberation Army/ Movement of an agreement to prohibit the use, production, stockpiling and transfer of antipersonnel mines throughout the territories under its control, and at the same time encourages the Sudan People’s Liberation Army/Movement to implement the agreement swiftly; (r) The efforts to implement the right to education; 2. Expresses its deep concern: (a) At the impact of the ongoing armed conflict on the situation of human rights and its adverse effects on the civilian population, in particular women and children, and at the continuing serious violations of human rights, fundamental freedoms and international humanitarian law by all parties to the conflict, in particular: (i) The occurrence of cases of extrajudicial summary or arbitrary execution resulting from armed conflicts between members of the armed forces and their allies and armed insurgent groups within the country, including the Sudan People’s Liberation Army/Movement; (ii) The retention of the state of emergency until the end of 2001; (iii) The occurrence, within the framework of the conflict in southern Sudan, of the use of children as soldiers and combatants, forced conscription, forced displacement, arbitrary detention, torture and ill-treatment of civilians as well as the still-unresolved cases of enforced or involuntary disappearances; 3