WAU - Antonina Atieno Okuta, a Human Rights Officer working with the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) in Wau is confident that officers from the South Sudan National Police Service here have received the training th
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A three-day capacity building workshop held by UNMISS trained 26 officers from the South Sudan National Police Service on upholding human rights, including preventing violence against women. Photo by Dawit K. Tedla/UNMISS.

UNMISS continues building capacities of key local stakeholders at the UN Protection Site in Malakal, as demonstrated in a recent workshop facilitated by the mission, UNHCR and other partners. Photo by Ines Surwumwe/UNMISS.

A day-long commemoration of 16 Days of Activism in Lakes, South Sudan, saw powerful testimonies against underage marriages by young secondary school students here. Photo by James Mawien/UNMISS

An innovative new programme to promote social cohesion between politically divided communities and to pave the way for recovery across the region is designed to help communities in Yei, Lainya, Morobo and Kajo-Keji reconcile and end violence and create new incentives to sustain peaceful coexistence. It is funded by donations from the governments of Norway, Germany, Sweden, the Netherlands and Canada through the UN Multi-Partner Trust Fund for Reconciliation, Stabilization, and Resilience in South Sudan (RSRTF), a joint initiative by UNMISS and the UN Country Team. Photo by Jale Richard/IOM.

A fresh deluge in Bentiu, Unity state, has local communities scrambling as South Sudan faces the most catastrophic floods in 60 years. However, thanks to UNMISS engineers from Pakistan and humanitarian partners, the latest emergency response should be able to tide people, especially those who are displaced, over the worst at least. Photo by Jacob Ruai/UNMISS.