Technical Assistance and Capacity-Building for South Sudan

A/HRC/RES/46/29View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the Human Rights Council, under agenda item 10 Technical assistance and capacity-building, published in 2021.

What other versions does this mandate have?

6 versions · 2021–2026

This is an older version — the most recent is A/HRC/RES/62/26

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2026	A/HRC/RES/62/26	Technical assistance and capacity-building for South Sudan	1,960	89%Compare
2025	A/HRC/RES/58/31	Technical assistance and capacity-building for South Sudan	1,795	82%Compare
2024	A/HRC/RES/55/26	Technical assistance and capacity-building for South Sudan	1,591	66%Compare
2023	A/HRC/RES/52/43	Technical assistance and capacity-building for South Sudan	1,569	73%Compare
2022	A/HRC/RES/49/35	Technical assistance and capacity-building for South Sudan	1,300	24%Compare

What subjects does this mandate have?

6 subjects

Capacity Building Human Rights Peace Agreements South Sudan Technical Cooperation Transitional Justice

What’s in this document?

37 operative paragraphs

Appreciates the cooperation of the Government of South Sudan with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the special procedures of the Human Rights Council and the Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan in the fulfilment of their mandates, including by authorizing travel to and within the country and providing meetings and relevant information, and giving unhindered access to them, as well as to the United Nations Mission in South Sudan, and regional, subregional and other international mechanisms in South Sudan;

Welcomes all relevant decisions and communiqués of the African Union and the Intergovernmental Authority on Development, and the communiqués of the Peace and Security Council of the African Union of 14 November 2019 and 27 January 2020, in which the Council, inter alia, re-emphasized its request to the Government of South Sudan and the African Union Commission to accelerate the establishment of all transitional justice mechanisms as provided for in the Revitalized Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in the Republic of South Sudan, including a commission for truth, reconciliation and healing, a compensation and reparation authority and a hybrid court for South Sudan;

Also welcomes the recent steps taken by the Government of South Sudan towards finalizing governance structures in South Sudan, and calls upon the Government to continue to make progress on finalizing all layers of State and local government and reconstituting the Transitional National Legislative Assembly, in accordance with the Revitalized Agreement;

Stresses that States have the primary responsibility for the promotion and protection of human rights, and should take measures to prevent human rights violations and abuses and to provide an effective remedy for victims of such violations and abuses, and recalls that the Government of South Sudan has the responsibility to protect its population from genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity;

Recognizes the political will of the Government of South Sudan to promote and protect human rights and its desire for tangible progress and for the prevention of further human rights violations and abuses, as corroborated by the appointment of a high-level peace committee to address communal violence leading to the disarmament of the rural population of small and light weapons and a considerable reduction in violence;

Also recognizes the important role of the reconstituted Joint Monitoring and Evaluation Commission and the Ceasefire and Transitional Security Arrangements Monitoring and Verification Mechanism in supporting the implementation of the Revitalized Agreement and its ceasefire provisions, and urges all parties and international partners to engage constructively with all institutions created pursuant to the Revitalized Agreement;

Further recognizes the importance of an inclusive process for national dialogue and the implementation of the Revitalized Agreement, and urges all parties and international partners to engage constructively with the African Union Commission, the African Union High Representative for South Sudan and the institutions created pursuant to the Revitalized Agreement;

Calls upon all parties to allow and facilitate, in line with the principles of international humanitarian law, the safe, unhindered and unrestricted access of humanitarian assistance so that it can be rapidly distributed to civilians in areas of need, to ensure the protection of humanitarian workers, and to guarantee their operations in the territory;

Emphasizes the need for the Government of South Sudan to ensure the effective and meaningful participation of women during all stages and in all structures envisaged in the Revitalized Agreement, and for all parties to the Agreement to meet their commitments regarding women’s representation and to ensure balance in the representation of youth, gender and national and regional diversity in their appointments;

Recognizes the measures taken by the Government of South Sudan to protect and promote the rights to freedom of expression, peaceful assembly and association in accordance with its international human rights obligations, and to ensure that members of civil society organizations and the media can operate freely and without intimidation;

Welcomes the recent announcement by the Government of South Sudan on the beginning of the establishment of the hybrid court for South Sudan and the other transitional justice mechanisms set out in chapter V of the Revitalized Agreement, and urges the Government to work with the African Union to take all steps necessary to formally establish and operationalize the hybrid court, including by adopting the statute of the hybrid court and by signing the relevant memorandum of understanding as an urgent priority, and to take all steps necessary to establish the commission for truth, reconciliation and healing and the compensation and reparation authority;

Also welcomes ongoing efforts under the national action plan on sexual and gender-based violence signed in 2019, the formation and operationalization of a court addressing gender-based violence in January 2021, the action plans of the Sudan People’s Liberation Army (in Opposition) and the South Sudan People’s Defence Forces to tackle conflict-related sexual and gender-based violence, initiated in 2019, and the recent efforts to address sexual and gender-based violence by the use of mobile military courts in Central Equatoria, and encourages efforts to address conflict-related sexual violence and to strengthen accountability for crimes involving sexual and gender-based violence, to be replicated to scale to address impunity;

Recognizes the important role that women play in peacebuilding, and appreciates the efforts made by the Government of South Sudan for the protection and promotion of the rights of women and their empowerment and participation in peacebuilding, conflict resolution, post-conflict processes and humanitarian responses, in accordance with Security Council resolutions 1325 (2000) of 31 October 2000 and subsequent resolutions on women and peace and security, including Council resolutions 2242 (2015) of 13 October 2015 and 2493 (2019) of 29 October 2019;

Also recognizes the continued importance of an inclusive process for national dialogue and constitutional reform to help to ensure that the Revitalized Agreement delivers long-term stable governance;

Stresses the continuing need for the effective and meaningful participation of women during all stages and in all structures envisaged in the Revitalized Agreement, and for all parties to the Agreement to meet their commitments regarding women’s representation, including adherence to the gender quota of 35 per cent for executive appointments as set out in the Agreement, and to have regard to the need to ensure balance in the representation of youth, gender and national and regional diversity in their appointments;

Recognizes the continued important role and efforts of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development in bringing parties together to advance the implementation of the Revitalized Agreement, and to support the inclusion of civil society, women and youth in all negotiations, including those relating to constitutional reform;

Urges all parties to the comprehensive action plan to end and prevent all six grave violations against children to take immediate and effective steps towards its implementation, including by releasing all children that have been recruited and abducted, and to take measures to ensure that all survivors have access to justice as well as to gender- and age-responsive medical, psychological and other support services, including for survivors of sexual and gender-based violence;

Commends the signing into law of the action plan in February 2020 to effectively address concerns over children associated with armed conflict, and calls for its implementation;

Takes note of the report of the Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan² and the recommendations contained therein;

²A/HRC/43/56.

Appreciates the efforts of the Government of South Sudan, through its Ministry of Gender, Child and Social Welfare, to combat violations and abuses against women and children, particularly sexual and gender-based violence;

Reaffirms the importance of continued emphasis on the need to establish the facts and circumstances of alleged violations and abuses of human rights with a view to ensuring that those responsible are held to account, welcomes the recommendations made by the Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan on ending impunity and ensuring accountability, and requests the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to provide technical assistance to the Government of South Sudan in areas, to be identified by the Government and other human rights institutions in South Sudan, to strengthen its capacity to monitor and establish the facts and circumstances of alleged violations and abuses of human rights, and to make such information available also to all transitional justice mechanisms, including those to be established pursuant to chapter V of the Revitalized Agreement, including the hybrid court for South Sudan, once established in cooperation with the African Union with a view to ensuring that those responsible are held to account;

Requests the Office of the High Commissioner, in cooperation with the Government of South Sudan and relevant mechanisms of the African Union, to urgently assist South Sudan to address human rights challenges in the post-conflict transition, by:

Monitoring and reporting on the situation of human rights in South Sudan, and to make recommendations to prevent any deterioration in the situation with a view to improving it;

Assessing the technical assistance and capacity-building needs of South Sudan in consultation with the Government of South Sudan and relevant African Union mechanisms;

Providing the required technical assistance and capacity-building, particularly with regard to the implementation of the Revitalized Agreement;

Providing guidance on transitional justice, including accountability, reconciliation and healing, as appropriate, and making recommendations on technical assistance to the Government of South Sudan to support accountability, reconciliation and healing;

Engaging with the Government of South Sudan, international and regional mechanisms, including the United Nations, the United Nations Mission in South Sudan and the African Union, including by building upon the work of the African Union, the Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan and the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, the Intergovernmental Authority on Development, including the Partners Forum, the Chair of the reconstituted Joint Monitoring and Evaluation Commission and civil society, with a view to promoting accountability for human rights violations and abuses committed by all parties;

Making recommendations on technical assistance and capacity-building, including for law enforcement institutions, on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms, including on addressing sexual and gender-based violence;

Making recommendations on technical assistance and capacity-building for the implementation of chapter V of the Revitalized Agreement;

Making recommendations on a follow-up process for the provision of technical assistance and capacity-building to South Sudan;

Requests the Office of the High Commissioner to provide technical assistance to South Sudan in order to convene two workshops on transitional justice, with the participation of relevant stakeholders;

Also requests the Office of the High Commissioner to work collaboratively with the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, including with the Country Rapporteur for South Sudan;

Further requests the Office of the High Commissioner to provide the Government of South Sudan with the technical assistance necessary to support the realization of the indicators contained in the present resolution;

Requests the Secretary-General to provide all the resources necessary to enable the Office of the High Commissioner to provide such administrative, technical and logistical support as necessary to implement the provisions of the present resolution;

Requests the High Commissioner to present an oral update to the Human Rights Council at its forty-eighth session, including on progress made in the provisions described in the present resolution, during an enhanced interactive dialogue, with the participation of representatives of the African Union, and to present a comprehensive written report to the Council at its forty-ninth session during an interactive dialogue;

Also requests the High Commissioner to share the above-mentioned report and the recommendations contained therein with the African Union and all relevant organs of the United Nations, including the United Nations Mission in South Sudan;

Decides to remain seized of the matter.

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