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A quarter of reported cases of conflict-related sexual violence in South Sudan are against children.

Photo Credit: UNICEF, Mackenzie Knowles-Coursin

Widespread sexual violence against women and girls in conflict is being fueled by systemic impunity, the United Nations Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan has said. Read more

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South Sudan’s unity government marked its two-year anniversary against a backdrop of stalled constitutional progress and ongoing cycles of community violence – often fuelled by political groups and armed militias – the senior UN official in the Read more

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Zimbabwe’s Emma Madziva stands at attention as a medal is pinned on her left breast pocket, just next to her name tag. The five-feet-three-inches-tall peacekeeper now proudly wears her first-ever United Nations medal, honouring her peacekeeping work Read more

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Displaced civilians holding a meeting under a tree in Yei, South Sudan

Picture: Nyagoah Tut Put / Human Rights Watch

Government soldiers carried out extensive abuses against civilians during counter-insurgency operations in South Sudan between December 2018 and March 2019 in Yei River State, Human Rights Watch said today. Read more

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A new humanitarian crisis is unfolding in Malakal

Photo: IOM-Gonzalez Palau 2016

A new humanitarian crisis is unfolding in Malakal, South Sudan, just days after an attack by government soldiers on a camp sheltering displaced people – the challenge of caring for tens of thousands of survivors. Read more

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