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31 March 2020
SOUTH SUDAN
List of Documents
1.
General Information and Maps
Source:
United Nations. Cartographic Section.
Date of Document:
October 2011
Accessed Date:
11 February 2013
Title:
South Sudan. The World Factbook.
Source:
United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
Date of Document:
15 April 2019
Accessed Date:
23 April 2019
Title:
Report of the Secretary-General on South Sudan (covering the period from 2 September to 30 November 2018)
Source:
United Nations. Security Council.
Date of Document:
10 December 2018
Accessed Date:
10 April 2019
Title:
Protection Trends in South Sudan (January-December 2017)
Source:
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. South Sudan Protection Cluster.
Date of Document:
April 2018
Accessed Date:
10 April 2019
Title:
South Sudan. 2019 Humanitarian Needs Overview.
Source:
United Nations. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
Date of Document:
November 2018
Accessed Date:
10 April 2019
Title:
South Sudan. Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2019.
Source:
United States. Department of State.
Date of Document:
11 March 2020
Accessed Date:
18 March 2020
Title:
South Sudan. World Report 2019: Events of 2018.
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
January 2019
Accessed Date:
10 April 2019
Title:
South Sudan. Freedom in the World 2018.
Accessed Date:
10 April 2019
Title:
South Sudan. Amnesty International Annual Report 2017/2018: The State of the World's Human Rights.
Source:
Amnesty International
Date of Document:
22 February 2018
Accessed Date:
3 April 2018
Title:
Report of the Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan
Source:
United Nations. Human Rights Council.
Date of Document:
18 February 2019
Accessed Date:
10 April 2019
Title:
Report of the Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan
Source:
United Nations. Human Rights Council.
Date of Document:
21 February 2019
Accessed Date:
10 April 2019
Title:
Final report of the Panel of Experts on South Sudan
Source:
United Nations. Panel of Experts on South Sudan.
Date of Document:
12 April 2018
Accessed Date:
10 April 2019
Title:
National report submitted in accordance with paragraph 5 of the annex to Human Rights Council resolution 16/21: South Sudan
Code:
A/HRC/WG.6/26/SSD/1
Date of Document:
23 August 2016
Accessed Date:
13 March 2017
3.
Identification Documents and Citizenship
Title:
Chapter II – Citizenship and Nationality. The Transitional Constitution of the Republic of South Sudan, 2011.
Accessed Date:
11 February 2013
Keywords:
citizenship; legislation
Title:
A Study of Statelessness in South Sudan 2017
Source:
United Nations High Commission for Refugees
Date of Document:
29 May 2018
Accessed Date:
10 April 2019
Title:
The Nationality Act, 2011
Accessed Date:
13 March 2017
Title:
Passports and Immigration Act, 2011
Accessed Date:
11 February 2013
Keywords:
citizenship; freedom of movement; identity documents; legislation
Title:
Nationality Regulations, 2011
Accessed Date:
13 March 2017
Title:
South Sudan. Statelessness and Citizenship in the East African Community.
Source:
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Date of Document:
September 2018
Accessed Date:
10 April 2019
4.
Political Activities and Organizations
Title:
I. Political Transformation. Transformation Index 2018 Country Report: South Sudan.
Source:
Bertelsmann Stiftung
Accessed Date:
16 April 2018
Title:
Taking Stock of the Revitalized Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in South Sudan
Source:
Africa Center for Strategic Studies
Date of Document:
12 January 2019
Accessed Date:
11 April 2019
Title:
Identity and Self-determination: The Fertit Opposition in South Sudan
Source:
Human Security Baseline Assessment for Sudan and South Sudan
Date of Document:
December 2018
Accessed Date:
11 April 2019
Title:
Changing Power Among Murle Chiefs: Negotiating political, military and spiritual authority in Boma State, South Sudan
Source:
Rift Valley Institute
Date of Document:
September 2018
Author:
Diana Felix da Costa
Accessed Date:
11 April 2019
Title:
Politics, power and chiefship in famine and war: A study of the former Northern Bahr el-Ghazal state, South Sudan
Source:
Rift Valley Institute
Date of Document:
28 September 2018
Accessed Date:
11 April 2019
5.
Gender, Domestic Violence and Children
Title:
Legal Provisions Relating to Gender Equality & Gender Based Violence in South Sudan
Source:
Human Rights Initiative
Date of Document:
August 2017
Accessed Date:
3 April 2018
Title:
No Safe Place: A Lifetime of Violence for Conflict-Affected Women and Girls in South Sudan
Source:
George Washington University. Global Women's Institute. et al.
Date of Document:
29 November 2017
Accessed Date:
3 April 2018
Title:
'Do Not Remain Silent': Survivors of Sexual Violence in South Sudan Call for Justice and Reparations
Source:
Amnesty International
Date of Document:
24 July 2017
Accessed Date:
3 April 2018
Title:
South Sudan. Social Institutions and Gender Index 2019.
Source:
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Date of Document:
7 December 2018
Accessed Date:
10 January 2019
Title:
Children and armed conflict in South Sudan. Report of the Secretary General.
Source:
United Nations. Security council.
Date of Document:
25 September 2018
Accessed Date:
11 April 2019
Title:
South Sudan Country Report: Children & Security
Source:
The Roméo Dallaire Child Soldiers Initiative
Date of Document:
3 April 2018
Accessed Date:
11 April 2019
Title:
South Sudan GBV Sub-Cluster Strategy 2017
Source:
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights et al.
Date of Document:
27 March 2017
Accessed Date:
11 April 2019
Title:
South Sudan. State-Sponsored Homophobia 2019
Source:
International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association
Date of Document:
March 2019
Author:
Lucas Ramón Mendos
Accessed Date:
11 April 2019
Title:
Republic of South Sudan LGBTI Resources
Source:
Refugee Legal Aid Information. Rights in exile programme.
Accessed Date:
11 April 2019
7.
Criminality and Corruption
Title:
South Sudan: Tier 3. Trafficking in Persons Report 2018.
Source:
United States. Department of State.
Date of Document:
June 2018
Accessed Date:
11 April 2019
Title:
Social Media and Conflict in South Sudan: A Lexicon of Hate Speech Terms 2017-2018
Accessed Date:
11 April 2019
Title:
Anything that was breathing was killed. War Crimes in Leer and Mayendit, South Sudan.
Source:
Amnesty International
Date of Document:
18 September 2018
Accessed Date:
11 April 2019
Title:
Reports of forcible recruitment and military conscription by the government and armed groups (2014- December 2015)
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
21 December 2015
Accessed Date:
22 April 2016
Keywords:
children; conflict; humanitarian situation
9.
Judiciary, Legal and Penal Systems
Title:
Exploring Primary Justice in South Sudan: Challenges, concerns, and elements that work
Source:
Leiden University
Accessed Date:
13 March 2017
Title:
I Told the Judge I Was Fifteen: The Use of the Death Penalty in South Sudan.
Source:
Amnesty International
Date of Document:
7 December 2018
Accessed Date:
11 April 2019
Title:
South Sudan. Broken Promises: Arbitrary Detention by South Sudan's Intelligence Agencies Continues.
Source:
Amnesty International
Date of Document:
4 September 2018
Accessed Date:
11 April 2019
10.
Police and Security Forces
Title:
Violations and Abuses Against Civilians in Gbudue and Tambura States (Western Equatoria) April-August 2018
Source:
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights; United Nations Mission in South Sudan
Date of Document:
18 October 2018
Accessed Date:
11 April 2019
Title:
“Soldiers Assume We Are Rebels”: Escalating Violence and Abuses in South Sudan's Equatorias
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
1 August 2017
Accessed Date:
3 April 2018
Title:
Indiscriminate Attacks Against Civilians in Southern Unity (April-May 2018)
Source:
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights; United Nations Mission in South Sudan
Date of Document:
10 July 2018
Accessed Date:
11 April 2019
Title:
South Sudan. Freedom in the Press 2017.
Accessed Date:
11 April 2019
Title:
Report on the Right to Freedom of Opinion and Expression in South Sudan Since the July 2016 Crisis
Source:
United Nations Mission in South Sudan; Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Date of Document:
February 2018
Accessed Date:
11 April 2019
Title:
South Sudan. International Religious Freedom Report 2017.
Source:
United States. Department of State.
Date of Document:
29 May 2018
Accessed Date:
11 April 2019
13.
Nationality, Ethnicity and Race
Title:
South Sudan: Displaced again by conflict, the Shilluk community faces an uncertain future. Minority and Indigenous Trends 2018.
Source:
Minority Rights Group International
Date of Document:
September 2018
Accessed Date:
11 April 2019
Title:
'It was as if my Village was Swept by a Flood': Mass Displacement of the Shilluk Population from the West Bank of the White Nile
Source:
Amnesty International
Date of Document:
21 June 2017
Accessed Date:
3 April 2018
14.
Exit/Entry and Freedom of Movement
Title:
IOM DTM(Displacement Tracking Matrix): South Sudan Mobility Tracking Round 1 Report
Source:
International Organization for Migration South Sudan
Date of Document:
16 April 2018
Accessed Date:
11 April 2019
Title:
Treatment of failed refugee claimants returned to South Sudan (2013 - November 2016)
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
19 December 2016
Accessed Date:
21 April 2017
15.
Labour, Employment and Unions - (No items in this section)
16.
Other - (No items in this section)
The following changes have been made to the previous package dated 30 April 2019:
Title:
South Sudan. Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2018.
Source:
United States. Department of State.
Date of Document:
13 March 2019
URL:
https://www.state.gov/reports/2018-country-reports-on-human-rights-practices/south-sudan/
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