The members of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan will begin their eleventh visit to South Sudan on Tuesday, 14 February 2023.
In a news release on Monday, commissioners Barney Afako and Andrew Clapham will visit South Sudan from 14 to 18 February.
“The experts are expected to meet government officials, members of civil society, jurists, UN agencies, and the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS),” the statement reads. “They plan to discuss the human rights situation in South Sudan, including the Commission’s latest findings and recommendations on priority areas for the country, following the signing of a two-year extension to the 2018 Revitalized Peace Agreement.”
The Commissioners will also address the press on Friday, 17 February 2023 at the UNMISS Headquarters in Tomping, Juba.
According to the statement, the Commission will present its report on the human rights situation in South Sudan to the UN Human Rights Council in early March 2023, in Geneva.
The UN Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan is an independent body mandated by the UN Human Rights Council. First established in March 2016, the commission is mandated to investigate the situation of human rights in South Sudan and to determine and report the facts and circumstances of human rights violations and abuses, including by clarifying responsibility for violations and abuses that are crimes under national and or international law.