A/HRC/RES/55/1
Recognizing the continuing important role played and efforts made by the African
Union, the Intergovernmental Authority on Development and the guarantors of the
Revitalized Agreement in bringing parties together to advance its implementation, as well as
the mediation efforts made in the framework of the peace process between signatories and
non-signatories of the Revitalized Agreement, previously led in Rome by the Community of
Sant’Egidio and now proposed to be led in Nairobi by the Government of Kenya, at the
request of the Government of South Sudan,
Recalling the formation of the Revitalized Transitional Government of National
Unity, and recognizing that this represented a significant step forward in the implementation
of the Revitalized Agreement and an opportunity for peace, stability and a sustainable
improvement in the situation in South Sudan through, inter alia, the implementation of the
commitments and obligations of South Sudan with respect to international human rights law
and its obligations under international humanitarian law,
Recalling also the repeated commitments by the parties to expedite the
implementation of the Revitalized Agreement, noting that some elements have been
implemented in full or in part, including the reconstitution of the National Elections
Commission, the National Constitutional Review Commission and the National Political
Parties Council, expressing disappointment at the lack of implementation of many other
elements, and stressing the urgent need to implement all remaining provisions of the
Revitalized Agreement during this period, including, of particular relevance, the transitional
justice provisions and mechanisms under chapter V,
Welcoming the accession by South Sudan to the International Covenant on Civil and
Political Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Optional Protocol thereto, and
the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women
in Africa,
Welcoming also the ratification by South Sudan of the Optional Protocol to the
Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict, its
decision to extend the Comprehensive Action Plan to End and Prevent All Grave Violations
against Children and its endorsement of the call to action to ensure the rights and well-being
of children born of sexual violence in conflict,
Expressing grave concern at the reports documented by the Commission on Human
Rights in South Sudan of ongoing human rights violations and abuses, including reports of
sexual and gender-based violence against women and girls, violations and abuses against
children and abductions of women and children, noting the deployment in some cases of
mobile courts and the use of courts martial funded by development partners, while expressing
grave concern also at the persistent lack of a standing judicial system and the failure to hold
perpetrators accountable,
Recognizing the provision of technical assistance and capacity-building by the
international community to South Sudan to date, including by the Office of the United
Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Commission on Human Rights in South
Sudan and other bodies of the United Nations, and the continuing need to provide quality,
coordinated and coherent technical assistance and capacity-building in the field of human
rights, including in response to requests of the Government of South Sudan, and that
successful assistance requires, inter alia, the political will of the transitional Government in
South Sudan to address ongoing challenges and realize peace, stability and a sustainable
improvement in the situation of human rights in South Sudan,
Acknowledging the impact of the additional, sustained and compounding challenges
posed by multiple global emergencies, as well as the ongoing armed conflict in the Republic
of the Sudan, to stability in South Sudan, as well as to local, regional, national and
international efforts to advance the situation of human rights in South Sudan,
Noting with concern that attacks on humanitarian workers continue unabated in South
Sudan, and calling 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,
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