A/HRC/15/57 1.3.3 Ensure that DDR Commissions have adequate child protection expertise, and ensure effective communication with relevant line ministries such as the Ministry of Social Welfare, Women and Children’s Affairs. The National DDR Coordination Council should facilitate the inclusion of all relevant stakeholders. Mid-term • Adequate child protection expertise within the DDR Commissions The National DDR Commission made significant progress in the Child DDR programme through the establishment of core standards for the release, family reunification and reintegration of children. It also developed a management information system and monitoring and evaluation tools in line with integrated DDR standards and the Paris principles. Collaboration between the Darfur States ministries of Social Welfare, Ministry of Education, Health, and the North Sudan Commission was strengthened during the reporting period. Furthermore, an arrangement was reached between the North Sudan Commission and the Security Arrangement Commission of the Transitional Darfur Regional Authority on the Child DDR process to work out a modality for the release and reintegration of children associated with armed forces or armed groups in Darfur. Significant activities were undertaken and implementation is in process. With the support of UNICEF, the Commission has initiated the development of a Child DDR programme in North Darfur which is based on an operational plan developed with six armed groups, signatories to the DPA, including the SLA/Free Will, SLA Abu Ghasim/Mother Wing, JEM Peace/Wing, SLA/Mini Minnawi, SLA/Peace Wing and the Popular Force for Rights and Democracy. A list of over 2,000 names of children has been submitted so far by these groups. As of February 2010, 387 children from SLA/Free Will and SLA/Mother Wing had been disarmed, demobilized and registered for the reintegration programme. Response of the Government of Sudan The Government reports that 535 children have been registered in the DDR program in South Darfur and 250 in West Darfur. In addition, 54 children who took part in the JEM attack on Omdurman in 2008 have been pardoned by the President 1.4 Protection against summary executions, arbitrary detention, disappearances, torture 1.4.1 Issue and enforce clear instructions to the law enforcement agencies, the armed forces and any militias under the Government’s control that summary executions, arbitrary detention, enforced or involuntary disappearances and torture are illegal and will not be 26