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February 28, 2025 Statement

South Sudan: UN Rights Council's Scrutiny Remains Crucial as the Country Stands at a Precarious Juncture

HRW Oral Statement - ID with Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan - HRC58

UN HRC
February 27, 2025 Dispatches

South Sudan Army Attacks Displace Thousands in Nasir

Communities at Risk as Crisis Deepens

A guard of South Sudan People's Defence Forces (SSPDF) in Malakal, November 21, 2022.
February 24, 2025 Statement

Submission to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on Children in Armed Conflict

February 2025

February 13, 2025 Letter

South Sudan: Adopt a strong resolution extending UN investigations for two years

To Permanent Representatives of Member and Observer States of the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council

January 16, 2025 News Release

East Africa, Horn: Civilian Suffering in Armed Conflict

Crackdowns on Dissent, Civic Space; Impunity for Abuse

Refugees are taken in trucks
September 9, 2024 News Release

South Sudan: Parliament Approves Transitional Justice Laws

Work with African Union to Establish Hybrid Court

Women stand outside a UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) site in Yei
July 4, 2024 News Release

South Sudan: Damaging Security Law Revisions Adopted

President Kiir Should Reject Law and Limit Broad, Unqualified Powers

An illustration of an eye with a captive man kneeling down in the iris
July 2, 2024 Dispatches

South Sudan’s Authorities Show Their Aversion to Criticism Yet Again

Release Detained Journalist, Allow Free Speech, Peaceful Protests

Aleu Anyieth (left) and Bol Deng Bol (right).
April 29, 2024 News Release

South Sudan: ‘Disappeared’ Critic Resurfaces

Spate of Forced Disappearances Points Up Need to Reform Security Agency

Morris Mabior Awikjok Bak
March 13, 2024 Commentary

Sudanese Refugee Deaths Highlight EU Policy Failures

March 1, 2024 Statement

South Sudan: Human Rights Council should Ensure Ongoing International Scrutiny, Investigations

HRW statement - Item 2: Enhanced interactive dialogue on the report of the Commission of Human Rights on advancing the human rights in South Sudan

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February 26, 2024 Statement

Joint NGO letter Calls for Renewal of UN Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan at Critical Moment

As elections loom, extend vital Human Rights Commission mandate

February 13, 2024 Dispatches

UN’s Financial Troubles Jeopardize Critical Human Rights Work

Investigations into Abuses in Sudan, Ukraine, Syria, and Elsewhere at Risk

Delegates sit at the opening of the 41th session of the Human Rights Council, at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, June 24, 2019.
December 22, 2023 Interview

Human Rights Watch’s Role in Conflict and Crisis

How HRW Documents Wartime Abuses, Advocates to Protect Civilians, and Promotes Justice

A woman looks out onto the street with her daughter inside a center for internally displace people in Abiy Adi, Tigray, Ethiopia, August 14, 2023. 
August 9, 2023 Dispatches

South Sudan Awaits Justice for Mayom Extrajudicial Killings

Government Should Hold All Responsible Officials to Account, Establish Hybrid Court

South Sudan's President Salva Kiir arrives at Juba's Presidential Palace, South Sudan, February 3, 2023.

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