There are now two parallel processes for drafting constitutions. One is led by the government and government-affiliated bodies working on drafting an Islamic constitution. This has also been asserted in al-Bashir's latest speech—we are going to go for an Islamic constitution. A draft has already been given to Parliament in its early stages as an Islamic constitution where the whole issue of rights is contested, where they say very clearly that in Sudan there will be no equality, particularly meaning equality between men and women.
The other parallel process is led by civil society, and my organization is part of that. We are leading a nationwide campaign to involve Sudanese citizens in the constitution, constitutional issues, and the constitution process itself—the importance to the Sudanese people of owning their constitution.
This is also an area where support is highly appreciated, because we need to talk to people, to different stakeholders, and this process is very much appreciated by the Sudanese people. However, we have difficulties in going outside Khartoum. In most cases we are not allowed to talk in public about that. We are not allowed to use the media to send messages.
But these two contradictory parallel processes are going on, and we don't know what will happen.