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UN human rights experts says international community has an obligation to prevent ethnic cleansing in South Sudan
The world’s youngest country, South Sudan, is on the brink of catastrophe, said the three-member* UN Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan at the end of a ten-day visit.
Press Conference of The Commission on Human Rights at the conclusion of its second visit to South Sudan
Shantal Persaud Acting Spokesperson: Good morning ladies and gentlemen and welcome to this press briefing that is also being broadcast live on UN Radio Miraya.
From Love to Death; by Yury Fedotov, Executive Director, UN Office on Drugs and Crime
Across the world tens of thousands of women and girls are being loved to death.
Take a wide angle snapshot of these deaths and violent assaults and they become a recitation of women attacked in desperate circumstances.
16 Days of Activism campaign launched in Rumbek
The 16 Days of Activism campaign aligned with the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, is observed from the 25th of November until the 10th of December as an effort to raise awareness of the negative impact that violence has on women, girls and society.
A 20 year old school girl joined peace activism in Rumbek
Ms. Becky Ajak Malith, a 20 year old school girl at the Bishop Mazzolari Memorial Secondary school has broken her silence by becoming a peace activist in an attempt to reconcile the fractured society of Western Lakes.
UN Human Rights Experts visit Bentiu and Malakal
Three members of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan visited Bentiu and Malakal to get an update on the current human rights situation in the country.
Final Media Briefing by SRSG Ellen Margrethe Loej: 28 November 2016
Shantal Persaud Acting Spokesperson: Good morning Ladies and Gentlemen and welcome to the United Nations Press briefing, which today will be given by SRSG Ellen Margrethe Loej.
A two day awareness workshop on the general mandate of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan has opened in Juba.
South Sudan leaders urged to put well-being of people first
The leaders of South Sudan have been urged by the UN's most senior official in the country to put the well-being of their people first.
UNMISS PoC sites Update No.145