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31 May 2022
SOUTH SUDAN
List of Documents
1.
General Information and Maps
Source:
United Nations. Geospatial Information Section.
Date of Document:
July 2020
Accessed Date:
29 March 2022
Title:
South Sudan. The World Factbook.
Source:
United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
Date of Document:
8 March 2022
Accessed Date:
30 March 2022
Title:
Situation in South Sudan: Report of the Secretary-General
Source:
United Nations. Security Council.
Date of Document:
7 December 2021
Accessed Date:
29 March 2022
Title:
Situation in South Sudan: Report of the Secretary-General
Source:
United Nations. Security Council.
Date of Document:
25 February 2022
Accessed Date:
29 March 2022
Title:
South Sudan. Humanitarian Needs Overview 2022.
Source:
United Nations. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
Date of Document:
February 2022
Accessed Date:
29 March 2022
Title:
Soudan du Sud : Situation sécuritaire depuis 2017
Source:
France. Office français de protection des réfugiés et apatrides.
Date of Document:
20 November 2020
Accessed Date:
29 March 2022
Title:
Annual Brief on Violence Affecting Civilians, January – December 2021
Source:
United Nations Mission in South Sudan
Date of Document:
17 February 2022
Accessed Date:
29 March 2022
Title:
South Sudan. BTI 2022 Country Report.
Source:
Bertelsmann Stiftung
Date of Document:
February 2022
Accessed Date:
29 March 2022
Title:
Humanitarian Situation Monitoring, Jonglei State, South Sudan: April – August 2021
Date of Document:
1 October 2021
Accessed Date:
29 March 2022
Title:
South Sudan, Third Quarter 2021: Update on incidents according to the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED)
Source:
Austrian Red Cross. Austrian Centre for Country of Origin and Asylum Research and Documentation.
Date of Document:
16 December 2021
Accessed Date:
29 March 2022
Title:
Land Governance and the Conflict in South Sudan
Source:
The London School of Economics and Political Science
Date of Document:
October 2021
Accessed Date:
29 March 2022
Title:
South Sudan. Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2021.
Source:
United States. Department of State.
Date of Document:
12 April 2022
Accessed Date:
25 April 2022
Title:
South Sudan. World Report 2022: Events of 2021.
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
January 2022
Accessed Date:
29 March 2022
Title:
South Sudan. Freedom in the World 2021.
Accessed Date:
29 March 2022
Title:
South Sudan. Amnesty International Annual Report 2021/22: The State of the World's Human Rights.
Source:
Amnesty International
Date of Document:
29 March 2022
Accessed Date:
29 March 2022
Title:
Report of the Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan
Source:
United Nations. Human Rights Council.
Date of Document:
15 February 2022
Accessed Date:
31 March 2022
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:
“These walls have ears”: The chilling effect of surveillance in South Sudan
Source:
Amnesty International
Date of Document:
2 February 2021
Accessed Date:
29 March 2022
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.6/40/SSD/1
Date of Document:
18 November 2021
Accessed Date:
29 March 2022
Title:
Compilation on South Sudan
Code:
A/HRC/WG.6/40/SSD/2
Source:
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Date of Document:
5 November 2021
Accessed Date:
29 March 2022
Title:
Summary of Stakeholders' submissions on South Sudan
Code:
A/HRC/WG.6/40/SSD/3
Source:
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Date of Document:
1 November 2021
Accessed Date:
29 March 2022
Title:
South Sudan: Survivors describe killings, mass displacement and terror amid fighting in Western Equatoria
Source:
Amnesty International
Date of Document:
9 December 2021
Accessed Date:
29 March 2022
3.
Identification Documents and Citizenship
Title:
Chapter II: Citizenship and Nationality. South Sudan's Constitution of 2011.
Source:
South Sudan; Comparative Constitutions Project
Accessed Date:
29 March 2022
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
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
Title:
COI Query Response. South Sudan: Acquisition of citizenship in South Sudan: whether a person who has never had a national South Sudanese ID and has never been registered as a national would be eligible for it.
Source:
European Union. European Asylum Support Office.
Date of Document:
9 April 2020
Accessed Date:
22 March 2021
4.
Political Activities and Organizations
Title:
Making Order Out of Disorder: Customary Authority in South Sudan
Source:
Rift Valley Institute
Date of Document:
16 August 2019
Accessed Date:
29 March 2022
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
Title:
South Sudan's transitional government: Realities, challenges and opportunities. East Africa Report.
Source:
Institute for Security Studies
Date of Document:
October 2021
Author:
Emmaculate Asige Liaga
Accessed Date:
29 March 2022
Title:
South Sudan's Splintered Opposition: Preventing More Conflict. Africa Briefing N°179.
Source:
International Crisis Group
Date of Document:
25 February 2022
Accessed Date:
29 March 2022
5.
Gender, Domestic Violence and Children
Title:
Legal Provisions Relating to Gender Equality & Sexual & 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:
29 March 2022
Title:
Children and armed conflict in South Sudan: Report of the Secretary General
Source:
United Nations. Security Council.
Date of Document:
14 December 2020
Accessed Date:
29 March 2022
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:
The Situation of Children and Women in South Sudan 2018–2020
Source:
United Nations Children's Fund
Date of Document:
July 2021
Accessed Date:
29 March 2022
Title:
Access to Health for Survivors of Conflict-Related Sexual Violence in South Sudan
Source:
United Nations Mission in South Sudan; Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Date of Document:
May 2020
Accessed Date:
29 March 2022
Title:
Initial report submitted by South Sudan under article 18 of the Convention, due in 2016
Date of Document:
19 February 2020
Accessed Date:
29 March 2022
Title:
CEDAW Shadow Report
Source:
South Sudan Civil Society Coalition on UPR
Accessed Date:
29 March 2022
Title:
Concluding observations on the initial report of South Sudan
Source:
United Nations. Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women.
Date of Document:
23 November 2021
Accessed Date:
29 March 2022
Title:
Sexual Violence in South Sudan
Source:
Insecurity Insight
Date of Document:
19 January 2022
Accessed Date:
29 March 2022
Title:
South Sudan. Our Identities Under Arrest: A global overview on the enforcement of laws criminalizing consensual same-sex sexual acts between adults and diverse gender expressions.
Source:
International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association
Date of Document:
15 December 2021
Editor:
Lucas Ramón Mendos
Accessed Date:
29 March 2022
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 2021.
Source:
United States. Department of State.
Date of Document:
1 July 2021
Accessed Date:
29 March 2022
Title:
Social Media and Conflict in South Sudan II: 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:
Soudan du Sud : Les arrow boys d'Equatoria occidentale
Source:
France. Office français de protection des réfugiés et apatrides.
Date of Document:
24 January 2019
Accessed Date:
29 March 2022
Title:
Armed Violence Involving Community-Based Militias in Greater Jonglei: January – August 2020
Source:
United Nations Mission in South Sudan; Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
Date of Document:
March 2021
Accessed Date:
29 March 2022
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
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 15': The use of the
death penalty in South Sudan
Source:
Amnesty International
Date of Document:
7 December 2018
Accessed Date:
11 April 2019
Title:
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:
Attacks on Civilians in Tambura County, June - September 2021
Source:
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights; United Nations Mission in South Sudan
Date of Document:
1 March 2022
Accessed Date:
29 March 2022
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:
“What Crime Was I Paying For?”: Abuses by South Sudan's National Security Service
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
14 December 2020
Accessed Date:
29 March 2022
Title:
South Sudan: Summary Executions in North
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
29 July 2021
Accessed Date:
29 March 2022
Title:
No Refuge: South Sudan's Targeting of Refugee HRDs Outside the Country
Source:
Front Line Defenders
Date of Document:
18 March 2021
Accessed Date:
29 March 2022
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 for 2020.
Source:
United States. Department of State.
Date of Document:
12 May 2021
Accessed Date:
29 March 2022
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:
South Sudan: Mobility Tracking Round 10. IDP and Returnee ATLAS as of December 2020.
Source:
International Organization for Migration
Date of Document:
August 2021
Accessed Date:
29 March 2022
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 31 March 2022:
Title:
South Sudan. Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2020.
Additional Info.:
Addendum regarding reproductive rights was added on 4 November 2021
Source:
United States. Department of State.
Date of Document:
30 March 2021
URL:
https://www.state.gov/reports/2020-country-reports-on-human-rights-practices/south-sudan
Accessed Date:
30 March 2022
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