CPJ joined 102 other non-governmental organizations in a joint letter urging the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to maintain its calls for accountability in South Sudan amid the country’s ongoing and widespread human rights abuses, including extrajudicial killings, “egregious violations of women’s and girls’ rights” and the persistence of “localized conflict and intercommunal violence.”
The letter noted that the National Security Service (NSS) intelligence agency has been responsible for attacks on human rights defenders and journalists, including editor Emmanuel Monychol Akop, who has been in NSS custody since November 2024. South Sudanese authorities have failed to fully implement a 2018 peace agreement, signed following years of civil war, and postponed general elections, the first since South Sudan’s 2011 independence.
During its upcoming February 24- April 4 session, the UNHRC should adopt a strong resolution addressing human rights in South Sudan and UN’s Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan’s mandate, the letter urges. The Commission’s mandate, tasked to “collect and preserve evidence of, and clarify responsibility for alleged gross violations and abuses of human rights and related crimes,” in South Sudan, expires in April.
Read the full letter in English and French.
This content originally appeared on Committee to Protect Journalists and was authored by Committee to Protect Journalists.
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