“Join hands, stand against rape” is the South Sudanese national theme for this year’s campaign of 16 days of activism against gender-based violence. Crude evidence suggests that short-term measures to enable women to stay close to home are necessary to keep them out of harm’s way.
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There was much to ponder in the Lakes region when UN police officers trained their South Sudanese counterparts on community policing.

Women in Kuajok discuss the difficulties in obtaining 35 per cent political representation when cultural practices often impede them from acquiring the required skills.

The "waiting room" at the only veterinary clinic in Bor, overseen by an UNMISS vet from the Indian Army.

Female leaders of civil society organizations in Nimule, Eastern Equatoria, being informed about women's rights as stipulated in the revitalized peace agreement.
As if gently stirred awake by the affectionate early morning rays of the sun seeping in through a gap in their bedroom curtains, a group of women in Nimule received a pleasant stroke of enlightenment as a visiting team from the United Nations Mission in South Sudan spread the word on the right