South Sudan Human
Rights Information Portal

Introduction

South Sudan’s protracted multi-layer crises continue to feature some of the worst Civil Political Rights, Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, and Rights for Special Groups Rights abuses. United Nation’s reports highlight violence against civilians inclusive of deaths, injuries, abductions, denial of humanitarian access, and conflict-related sexual violence. Unabated trends of communal and sectional violence and associated displacements are known to expose millions people to food insecurity amidst low supply of essential services; vulnerable communities are paying dearly for child marriage among violations in the backdrop of a regressive civic space.

In the void of vibrant grassroots, objective violations reporting, and collective responsibility among duty bears; elude South Sudan of its prospect for accountable governance and democratisation, and social stability for universal access and eventual productivity for all. The South Sudan Human rights information portal is a platform through which Individuals, Civil Society, Human Rights Defenders, Government, the UN, and other external stakeholders can document incidents, analyse and keep track of the human rights events in South Sudan.

Our Services

1. CSO Capacity Building: Contextually curated modules and tools are critical building blocks to vibrant and evidence driven civil society participation in rights governance i.e. incident reporting, contextual analysis, advocacy and dialogue, and contribution to the universal periodic review reporting process. Tailored modules and sessions are scheduled for CSOs across states, a CSO learning deck will be integrated in the future.

2. Incident Reporting & Analytics: A contextually adopted incident form constitute the core function of this portal, upon data set human rights situation data (analytics) will be generated to invoke dialogue, intervention, advocacy and policy development. While observing standard data protocols, the form is available for use by all citizens and residents of South Sudan in event of a violation in your location.

3. UPR Round 4 Shadow Reporting: Towards harnessing the participation of CSOs in the current Universal Periodic Review cycle (4), this portal is will provide a galvanising front for collective CSO inputs into the round 4 shadow report.

4. Human Rights Advocacy and Events: The implementation of the Universal Periodic Review cycle (3) recommendations requires collective efforts. This portal profiles the tireless work and projects (including events) from across different players including the Government, Civil Societies, United Nations, the International community among Stakeholders.

Latest News

National Stakeholder Conference on Human Rights and UPR kicked off on 26th March 2024 in Juba

National stakeholder conference on Human rights and Universal periodic Review runs from 26th -27th March twitter .

Our Projects

Featured Projects

Empowering Civil Society Engagement in the UPR Process (ECSEP)

Drawing from lessons and drivers that resulted into a 9.3% increase of Universal Periodic Review recommendations between round 2 (2016) and round 3 (2022); the path to implement universal access at all levels however, remains challenged by weak capacities among mandated institutions, conflicting interests and limited resourcing in the face global economic meltdown. Regional and isolated local lessons attest to the growing relevance and the strategic potentials Civil Societies present towards documentation, information sharing, advocacy and dialogue; if provided with tools/skills, resources and exposure opportunities to build working relations with government counterparts. ‘Empowering Civil Society Engagement in the UPR Process (ECSEP)’ under the oversight of South Sudan Human Rights Commission works to improve the capacity of civil society to advocate, monitor and engage effectively with the South Sudan’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR), and processes towards cycle 4, session 54 (2026).

Upcoming Events

Date & Time

27/03/2024 | 12:30 Am

Location

Imperial Hotel, Juba

Guest Speaker

Eng. Tiop Paul

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