Following decades of civil war and ongoing conflict, violations and abuses of human rights continue to plague the world’s youngest nation, including loss of life, sexual and gender-based violence, arbitrary and prolonged detention, lack of access to justice, poverty, and prevalent impunity.
The Human Rights Division, which also represents the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in South Sudan, works to promote human rights across the country. Its core activities include monitoring, investigating, verifying and reporting on violations and abuses of international human rights and humanitarian law.
This work is conducted through field missions to monitor and assess human rights, notably in areas hosting internally displaced people from conflict-affected states. In addition, the Division intervenes in cases where human rights defenders and individual victims require protection, including those subjected to sexual and gender-based violence.