Protecting and promoting human rights - along with preventing, documenting, and reporting abuses of them - are key parts of the mandate of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan, UNMISS.
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Traditional leaders can do much to promote human rights in their communities. In Torit, they recently learnt how to go about it. Photos: Okello James/UNMISS
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Samuel Cherinet (right) spends a lot of time in the field, here inspecting a construction site where an UNMISS Quick Impact Project is being completed. Photos: Alahayi Nemaya/UNMISS
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UNMISS, UNHCR and UN Women jointly held consultations with returnees and displaced people in Wau and Raja, Western Bahr El Ghazal, on the importance of every citizen's participation in ongoing democratic processes in South Sudan. Photo by Michael Wondi/UNMISS
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As the crisis in Sudan continues, UNMISS and humanitarian partners are doing everything they can to help those seeking refuge across the border in South Sudan. A recent visit by the UN Peacekeeping mission to Renk aimed at gauging security and economic conditions of these new arrivals. Photo by Nyang Lieth/UNMISS
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Cutting the ribbon to one of three newly refurbished cell blocks at the Terekeka County Prison, where male, female and juvenile inmates will now be separated. Photos: Blessings Samuel Phumisa/UNMISS