UN urges South Sudan to do more to improve human rights
December 12, 2011 (BENTIU) – The United Nation Mission in South Sudan has invited the police, judiciary and NGO’s in volatile Unity state to do more to protect people against human rights violations.
UNMISS said that efforts to improve human rights were especially needed in Unity state were rebels have been fighting the government since April this year.
As well as launching an attack on Mayom town the rebels are also accused of laying landmines. The South Sudan Liberation Army (SSLA) rebels deny being backed by Khartoum in an effort to control Unity state’s oil fields, which north Sudan lost when South Sudan seceded in July.
Brigitte Oederlin, an UNMISS official in Bentui said Saturday that it was important to respect human rights at both the government, individual and family levels.
In her comments to mark international human rights day, she urged South Sudan government both at the state and national level to use social media as a tool for identifying and reporting human rights violations.
The chairperson of Women and Child affairs committee at Unity state’s legislative assembly, Viola Kur Chol, said that it was the role of everyone in society to protect the rights of people.
“It is not very far for you to talks against the violation of human rights, there are a lot of things that happen and you witness by yourself but don’t wait for the government to address this issue, you are the right person to display all these that would be good for your future”, said Chol.
Chol said that the judiciary was the best policy tool to stop human rights violation within society, adding that many people in government institutions, including the police service, had never read South Sudan’s transitional constitution.
Some human rights violations are due to ignorance of the country’s laws she said.
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Sundayw
UN urges South Sudan to do more improve human rights
What is the UN talking about? There are countries trampling on human rights all over and they zero in on poor South Sudan? Come on, South Sudan is probably an outlier when it comes to habitual violators of human rights. Sudan is right at the top of the list followed by nearly 90% of Arab countries. We don’t torture or carry out extrajudicial killings. Come on UN!
Ajok Garang
UN urges South Sudan to do more improve human rights
UN is right to raise that issue of Human rights in South Sudan……its doesn’t mean if other countries don’t respect human rights in the World then we follow the same thing…people are just sewing money in Juba and failed to provide security to South Sudanese.. all states are a mess.being disturb my miliatias…