A/HRC/RES/58/1 in September 2024, and recalling the corresponding commitments made by the African Union, the Intergovernmental Authority on Development and key guarantor States to support the efforts of South Sudan, Emphasizing the critical importance of the right to freedom of opinion and expression, online and offline, and the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association in South Sudan, in accordance with international human rights law, including the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Recognizing the continuing important role played and efforts made by the African Union, including its High-level Ad Hoc Committee for South Sudan (also known as C5), 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 nonsignatories of the Revitalized Agreement, previously led in Rome by the Community of Sant’Egidio and now under the Tumaini Initiative, 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 the Revitalized Agreement 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, and expressing deep concern that the transitional period of the Revitalized Agreement, due to end in February 2025, was extended by a further 24 months in September 2024 owing to the lack of implementation of the majority of the Revitalized Agreement, 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 widespread sexual and gender-based violence against women and girls, extrajudicial killings, arbitrary detentions, violations and abuses against children and abductions of women and children, and the persistent lack of a standing judicial system and the failure to hold perpetrators accountable, while noting the deployment in some cases of mobile courts and the use of courts martial, 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, 2