Technical Assistance and Capacity-Building for South Sudan

A/HRC/RES/58/31View PDF

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A document of the Human Rights Council, under agenda item 10Technical assistance and capacity-building, published in 2025.

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Capacity Building Financial Assistance Human Rights Humanitarian Assistance South Sudan Technical Cooperation Transitional Justice

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

Encourages the parties and all stakeholders in South Sudan to continue to build on the current momentum by speedily implementing all outstanding provisions of the Revitalized Agreement;

Recognizes the political will of the Government of South Sudan to promote and protect human rights and its wish for tangible progress and for the prevention of further human rights violations and abuses by establishing in Juba a court to try cases of gender-based violence and military mobile courts to prosecute offences committed against civilians by members of the organized forces while on duty;

Recalls 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 the constitution and electoral processes, and urges immediate high-level political discussion among all the signatories to address the outstanding issues;

Emphasizes the need for the Government of South Sudan to continue to ensure the meaningful participation of women and youth during all stages and in all structures envisaged in the Revitalized Agreement, and for all parties to the Revitalized 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;

Stresses that States have the primary responsibility for the promotion and protection of human rights by taking measures to prevent human rights violations and to provide an effective remedy for victims of such violations and abuses, and recalls that the Government of South Sudan has the primary responsibility to protect the population from all human rights violations, including by preventing violations of international humanitarian law;

Notes, however, the challenges facing the Government of South Sudan in this regard, and encourages the international community to provide technical assistance and capacity-building to and support the rule of law institutions to prevent, investigate and, as appropriate, prosecute violations of human rights;

Calls upon the Government of South Sudan to provide all necessary resources to the National Elections Commission, the National Constitutional Review Commission and the Political Parties Council, and encourages the international community to provide technical assistance and capacity-building to these institutions;

Calls upon the international community to provide technical and financial assistance in order to further improve the services and capacity of police and prison officers, judiciary personnel, public prosecutors, the Directorate of Military Justice and the South Sudan Human Rights Council to enhance the functioning of the legal system and to allow the Government of South Sudan to effectively deliver necessary services, including criminal investigations and prosecution, education and healthcare services, food and clean drinking water and infrastructure;

Appeals to the international community to provide humanitarian support to populations in dire need of assistance, at the same time calls upon the Government to step up its efforts in that regard, notes with concern that attacks on humanitarian workers continue, and calls upon all parties to ensure an enabling political, administrative, operational and legal environment for the delivery of humanitarian assistance and protection of humanitarian workers while ensuring full compliance with international humanitarian law;

Requests the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, in cooperation and collaboration with the Government of South Sudan and relevant mechanisms of the African Union, to enhance the technical assistance provided to the Government of South Sudan to continue to assist it in addressing human rights challenges in the post-conflict transition, by:

Determining the capacity-building needs of South Sudanese institutions in order that they may investigate and prosecute alleged violations of human rights and international humanitarian law;

Providing the Government of South Sudan with technical assistance and capacity-building for the operationalization of the recently established transitional justice institutions, namely the Commission for Truth, Reconciliation and Healing and the Compensation and Reparation Authority, under chapter V of the Revitalized Agreement, and building the capacity of statutory courts, local courts, police and prison personnel and public prosecutors to investigate and prosecute alleged violations of human rights with a view to improving accountability and promoting reconciliation and healing in South Sudan;

Providing the Government of South Sudan with the technical assistance and capacity-building necessary to enable it to deliver necessary services, including improving correctional facilities;

Reporting to the Human Rights Council on the technical and capacity-building support provided to the Government of South Sudan in accordance with the terms of the present resolution;

Engaging with the Government of South Sudan and international and regional mechanisms, including the United Nations Mission in South Sudan and the African Union, with a view to addressing human rights violations and abuses committed during the conflict by the parties;

Supporting the Government of South Sudan in the implementation of the recommendations accepted by the Government in the context of the universal periodic review and the incorporation of United Nations core conventions into domestic laws, and also supporting the South Sudan Human Rights Council in preparing national reports to the treaty bodies and mechanisms;

Building the capacity of national institutions, including the South Sudan Human Rights Council, and in consultation with civil society organizations and other national stakeholders, to promote national ownership of transitional justice;

Providing advice and technical assistance to the Government of South Sudan in planning and preparing for the elections, in line with its commitment under the Revitalized Agreement and the associated road map;

Also requests the Office of the High Commissioner to present a comprehensive report to the Council at its sixty-second session, to be followed by an interactive dialogue, with the participation of representatives of the African Union;

Further requests the Office of the High Commissioner to submit the above-mentioned report and recommendations to the Human Rights Council, then to share them with the African Union and all relevant organs of the United Nations, including the United Nations Mission in South Sudan;

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;

Decides to remain seized of the matter.

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