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To demonstrate its commitment to ending violence against women, select members of the SSPDF teamed up with partners from UNMISS to come up with a training curriculum that would enable them to trickle down learning on preventing conflict-related sexual violence to everyone in their ranks. This, in turn, culminated in a two-day session based on the final detailed training programme agreed upon by the SSPDF and UNMISS.
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Women from different political parties discussing their political participation and how to improve it.
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From 14-16 October 2020, the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General and Head of UNMISS, David Shearer, visited Bentiu and Malakal for the first time since the coronavirus-related lockdown in South Sudan. SRSG Shearer met with representatives of displaced communities, state officials and humanitarian partners.