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A woman in Bentiu receives post-surgical care. UNFPA, UNMISS and partners are currently helping women receive treatment for fistulas.
Rebecca Simon spent 18 years without a single child. She traveled to Kenya, Uganda and Sudan, but was unable to find a doctor who could treat her condition.
United Nations Special Representative for Sexual Violence in Conflict, Ms. Pramila Patten, arrives in Malakal.
A delegation led by United Nations Special Representative for Sexual Violence in Conflict, Ms. Pramila Patten, has visited the town of Malakal, in South Sudan’s Upper Nile region.
“As mothers, because of the children, we will not give up, not on peace". The UN Deputy Secretary-General, Amina Mohammed, had a clear message to the people in Wau.
Madiu John is a survivor.
She has survived despite having no food and no home.
She has survived brutal fighting all around her.
She has survived rape.
3 July 2018 - UNMISS PoC sites Update No.202
Hundreds of Indian peacekeepers in Upper Nile have received UN medals for their outstanding service.
Few civilians would know it, but there is a lot more to a medal parade ceremony, a frequent occurrence in any peacekeeping mission, than the handing out of pieces of suitably engraved metal.
Some 150 Nepalese peacekeepers belonging to its High Readiness Company have received UN medals for their distinguished service in South Sudan.
The Nepalese High Readiness Company are an elite unit of soldiers with a unique set of military expertise and experience that makes them highly sought after in peacekeeping operations.
Portugal has just sent its first contingent of police officers to the United Nations Mission in South Sudan.
Eight United Nations police officers from Portugal, four women and four men, have recently joined the United Nations Mission in South Sudan for a one-year deployment. The new arrivals are the first Portuguese police officers to serve in the country.
Senior South Sudanese prison officers received certificates after a week-long training on human rights, sexual gender-based violence and community policing.
You are a prison officer and an inmate is trying to escape. What can you do about it? Or more importantly: what should you do to stop the want-to-be fugitive?
Last month more than 200 child soldiers were released in Pibor. SPLA has recommitted to make its army child-free.
Senior officers in the South Sudanese army (SPLA) have been meeting in Juba with a view to getting removed from the list of shame that bears names of perpetrators of grave violations against children.
Hundreds of colleagues and friends bid a final farewell to Lieutenant Commander Ashraf Siddiqui, a Bangladeshi peacekeeper killed in an ambush earlier this week.
Colleagues and friends of fallen peacekeeper Lieutenant Commander Ashraf Siddiqui came together in their hundreds to mourn his death at the Bangladeshi contingent’s UN base in Juba.