A/HRC/27/69 over the next three years to support local peace processes in the conflict areas of the Sudan. The European Union has also budgeted one million euros to be spent in 2014 under the European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights project to support, inter alia, capacity-building for local civil society organizations in promoting human rights and democratic reform in the Sudan. 77. The Independent Expert encourages other donor States, international institutions and agencies to assist the Government of the Sudan as well as national and local civil society organizations, with the technical assistance and capacity-building needed to address the subsisting human rights challenges in the country. VIII. Conclusions and recommendations 78. Within the reporting period, the Government of the Sudan has sustained its efforts in respect of policies aimed at improving the situation of human rights in the country, but the effective and practical implementation of those policies on the ground still remains protracted. This report has evidently identified that major human rights challenges still persist, and the Government of the Sudan must take practical steps to redress them. 79. Despite the subsisting human rights challenges in the Sudan, the situation is not totally bleak as the Government’s human rights policy orientation has relatively improved over the past two years. The mandate of the Independent Expert is therefore making an impact and the international community should continue engaging with and supporting the Sudan towards realizing the practical improvement of its human rights situation. 80. On the basis of the appraisal and candid assessment of the subsisting human rights challenges in the Sudan during this reporting period, the Independent Expert makes the following recommendations. A. Recommendations to the Government of the Sudan 81. The Government of the Sudan should take concrete action to address the subsisting human rights challenges identified in this report to achieve visible improvement of human rights on the ground. To that end the Government should: (a) Implement the remaining recommendations in the previous report of the Independent Expert without further delay; (b) Institute an independent judicial public enquiry into the killings and other human rights violations that occurred during the September 2013 demonstrations; (c) Ensure that the death of Ali Abakar Musa Idris, killed by gunshot at the University of Khartoum on 10 March 2014, is fully investigated and its findings made public; (d) Release the leader of the Sudanese Congress Party, Ibrahim al-Sheikh, and all other political and youth activist detainees or charge them to court if there are any established charges against them; (e) Ensure that its security agents desist from arbitrary arrests and detentions, press censorship, clamping down on civil society organizations, and fully respect the right to liberty and freedom of individuals; 19