A/HRC/15/57 Of the several cases of SGBV documented in 2009, only 7 cases were successfully prosecuted. UNAMID recorded 9 incidents where police acted upon a SGBV report and 17 cases where police failed to act even though they were presented with all the facts. UNAMID followed up four cases of rape in which both victims and offenders were minors. Two of the offenders were acquitted for lack of evidence and two were convicted. In one case, a 14-year-old boy was sentenced to 60 lashes and three years imprisonment. In another case, a 16-year-old boy was sentenced to three years imprisonment. Response of the Government of Sudan The Government makes reference to two workshops held on amending the section on rape in the Criminal Act 1991 with the view to removing the discrepancies in the definition of “rape and adultery”. 1.2.9 Ratify the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa. Mid-term • CEDAW and Protocol ratified CEDAW and the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa have not been ratified by Sudan. No implementation at all, which has direct bearing on concretely improving the human rights situation on the ground. Response of the Government of Sudan The Government refers to the CEDAW committee’s rejection of the sovereign right of states to make a reservation to the treaty before acceding to it 1.3 Children and armed conflict 1.3.1 Establish and provide sufficient resources to Gender and Child Units within the national police in Darfur as a matter of priority. Short-term • Gender and Child Units within the national police established and fully resourced The police in collaboration with the National Council for Child Welfare and with support from UNICEF have established the Family and Child Protection Units in the three Darfur States with the aim to strengthen systems for protecting children in contact with the law, including child offenders, 24 Full implementation (i.e. all recommended activities were carried out to lay the framework for improving the situation on the ground).