A/HRC/15/57 of children. Monitoring and evaluation tools in line with the integrated standards and the Paris Principles have also been established. Accordingly, a programme for child disarmament, demobilization and reintegration was initiated in Darfur by the relevant North Sudan commission with the support of the United Nations Children’s Fund based on an operational plan developed with six armed groups, which were signatories to the Darfur Peace Agreement. They include the Sudan Liberation Army (SLA) Free Will, the SLA/Abu Ghasim/Mother Wing, the Justine and Equality Movement (JEM) Peace Wing, the SLA/Mini Minnawi, the SLA/Peace Wing and the Popular Force for Rights and Democracy. To date, a list of over 2,000 names of children has been submitted by the groups. With participation of all stakeholders, to date 387 children from SLA Free Will and SLA Mother Wing have been disarmed, demobilized and registered for the reintegration programme. The association of children with armed groups, including pro-government militias, remains nonetheless a major concern. Given the scale of alleged association of children with the various armed groups, there is need for the availability of sufficient funds in support of the rehabilitation and reintegration of released children (recommendation 1.3.3). 4. Protection against summary executions, arbitrary detention, disappearances and torture 19. The Government has not issued new instructions that summary executions, arbitrary detention, enforced or involuntary disappearances and torture are illegal and will not be tolerated, and that they can amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity. Cases of arbitrary detention and ill-treatment of civilians documented by UNAMID during the reporting period continue to show that the National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) and the Sudanese Military Intelligence are the main governmental authorities most responsible for the violations in Darfur. Detainees are often held without being informed of the reason for their arrest, and sometimes detained without charge for prolonged periods and not brought before a judicial authority. In some instances, detainees are held incommunicado and subjected to torture and other forms of ill-treatment. 20. The 1997 Emergency and Public Safety Act continues to apply in Darfur, where a state of emergency remains in existence. The law grants wide discretionary powers of arrest and detention to the State governors of Darfur without any effective judicial review. In North Darfur, 16 people suspected of involvement in the murder of a local community leader from the Abou Shok camp for internally displaced persons near El Fasher were arrested and detained for more than five months under the Emergency Act without access to lawyers and without being brought before a judicial authority. Six of the detainees remain in detention and have not been charged with an offence; more than eight months have passed since their arrest (recommendations 1.4.1 and 1.4.2). 21. UNAMID Human Rights was denied unfettered access to detention centres and prisons, including the NISS, Military Intelligence and police detention centres for most part of the reporting period. Access to detainees, particularly those held under the emergency law, was extremely difficult. In some instances, limited access was granted on a case-bycase basis, depending on the rapport between human rights monitors and prison officials. United Nations human rights monitors still have no access to places of detention in Khartoum, which is of concern for Darfur-related detainees transferred to the capital (either for trial or interrogation). On 20 December 2009, the National Assembly of the Government of National Unity passed a bill repealing the 1999 National Security Forces Act and reforming the NISS. Under the new law, which came into effect on 28 January 2010, the NISS has powers of arrest and detention for a period of four and a half months without judicial oversight. The new law also grants NISS personnel immunity against criminal prosecution and civil liability (recommendations 1.4.3 and 1.4.4). 8