A/HRC/RES/52/1 travel to and within the country and providing meetings and relevant information, and calls upon the Government to continue to cooperate fully and constructively with and to give unhindered access to them and to the United Nations Mission in South Sudan, and to regional, subregional and international mechanisms on the ground; 3. Notes the ongoing cooperation of the Government of South Sudan with the African Union, the Intergovernmental Authority on Development and the United Nations Mission in South Sudan, including its Human Rights Division; 4. Commends the vital role played by human rights defenders, women, including women peacebuilders and women human rights defenders, youth, the media and civil society organizations in promoting human rights and the importance of promoting the inclusive, equitable and non-discriminatory participation in governance, constitution-making, electoral and transitional justice processes of all parts of society, including groups that are marginalized and in vulnerable situations; 5. Expresses its deep concern at the harassment, intimidation, arbitrary arrest and enforced disappearance of, and other attacks against, human rights defenders, members of civil society organizations, media workers and humanitarian workers, and other individuals, as well as undue restrictions on the rights to freedom of opinion and expression, online and offline, and to the freedom of peaceful assembly and of association; 6. Emphasizes the critical importance of the freedoms of expression and of peaceful assembly and of association in South Sudan, and urges the Government of South Sudan to take more effective steps to improve its performance in promoting and protecting political and civic space and the full respect of these freedoms, particularly with a view to ensuring a credible electoral environment; 7. Welcomes the report of the Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan2 and its presentation to the Human Rights Council during the interactive dialogue held at its present session, while expressing concern at the findings in the report and at its overall assessment regarding the current situation of human rights on the ground, and encourages the Government of South Sudan and other actors to engage with the Commission with a view to implementing the recommendations made in the report; 8. Takes note of the additional conference room papers published by the Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan since the forty-sixth session of the Human Rights Council;3 9. Welcomes the renewal of the mandate of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan on 15 March 2023 by the Security Council in its resolution 2677 (2023); 10. Reaffirms the importance of the mandate of the Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan, with continued emphasis on the need to establish the facts and circumstances of, to collect and preserve evidence of, and to clarify responsibility for alleged violations and abuses of human rights and related crimes in South Sudan, and notes that, while the hybrid court for South Sudan, the commission for truth, reconciliation and healing and the compensation and reparation authority have yet to be established, as called for in chapter V of the Revitalized Agreement, there remains a need for a mechanism for the monitoring of, reporting on and collecting of evidence regarding alleged violations and abuses of human rights in South Sudan; 11. Notes the relevance of the work of the Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan to the mandate and functions of chapter V mechanisms, once these have been established in accordance with the Revitalized Agreement, and welcomes the efforts made by the Government of South Sudan to date to establish them; 12. Decides to extend the mandate of the Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan, composed of three members, for a further period of one year; 13. Requests the Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan to present a comprehensive written report on the situation of human rights in South Sudan to the Human Rights Council at its fifty-fifth session, to be followed by an enhanced interactive dialogue, 2 3 4 See A/HRC/52/26. See www.ohchr.org/en/hr-bodies/hrc/co-h-south-sudan/index.