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Women from rural areas in Eastern Equatoria aired their concerns about wide-spread impunity for incidents of gender-based violence.
Rural women in Ikotos and other communities near Torit in Eastern Equatoria have teamed up to advocate for an end to gender-based violence. The women believe the only way to protect themselves is by directly defending their rights.
Military man listing what is needed for South Sudanese armed groups to be removed from UN list of armies violating the rights of children in conflict.
A total of 32 representatives from government and opposition forces operating in the Greater Upper Nile region have reiterated their commitment to stop recruiting boys and girls under the age of 18 and to release any children found in their ranks.
Newly deployed UNMISS peacekeepers arrive in Maper, where recent intercommunal fighting has claimed at least 79 lives and left scores injured.
A brief, but telling, conversation unfolded in Maper on Monday between the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) Force Commander Lt. Gen. Shailesh Tinaikar and Manyiel Lieny, the Paramount Chief of Gak community, which has been at bloody odds with its neighbour, the Manuer community.
Seventy-five United Nations peacekeepers have been temporarily re-deployed from Rumbek to Maper to deter further violence between communities in the northern Lakes region of South Sudan.
Women were well represented at the neighbourhood advocacy forum for peace in Kapoeta, organized by UNMISS and partners.
Trust and confidence has been reinforced between the civilian population and military forces of the Sudan People Liberation Army-in Opposition and the South Sudan People’s Defense Forces (SSPDF) in Kapoeta, located in Eastern Equatoria.
Villages devastated by flooding in South Sudan's Akobo
The town of Akobo should be bustling with energy.
Thousands of families who fled their homes when civil war erupted in South Sudan have finally begun returning to their homes in the wake of a new peace deal signed by the country’s leaders last year.
Jubek Model School was the scene of a festive event promoting harmonious families, peace and an end to gender-based violence.
On Thursday 28 November, a steaming Juba was joyously shaken by the reverberations of singing and dancing emanating from a community-wide event at Jubek Model School.
This young man in Malakal is making great use of an UNMISS-led basic engineering training he completed in May.
Six months after its conclusion, a training provided by some of the UN peacekeeping mission’s engineering troops in Malakal is already paying substantial dividends.
UNMISS Protection of Civilian (PoC) sites Update No. 258 - 28 Nov to 1st Dec 2019
A woman in Yambio takes notes during a UN forum on the stigma associated with sexual violence.
“It’s traumatising to be raped and be left in shame, and when it happens, you just want to leave everything behind and go and live alone because of the stigma that follows this experience.”