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Tuesday 27 Oct 2015 - 10:47 Makkah mean time-14-1-1437
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Juba (IINA) – The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights is deploying a 10-member mission to South Sudan to assess the situation following reports of alleged violations and abuses of human rights committed by both parties to the conflict in the country.
“The team will examine violations of international human rights law and of international humanitarian law committed by actors on both sides of the political divide,” said a press release from the Office of High Commissioner Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein.
He added that the first three members of the mission had already arrived in the South Sudanese capital, Juba, last week, and will focus on the human rights violations that have affected civilians since the outbreak of violence in the country in December 2013.
Zeid also said that the assessment report will then be presented to the UN Human Rights Council, which mandated the mission, at its next session in March 2016.
A resolution of the Human Rights Council has stressed the importance of an objective assessment of the human rights situation in South Sudan and called for the deployment of a mission.
The resolution also calls for monitoring and reporting the situation of human rights, including a comprehensive assessment of allegations of violence and abuses of human rights with a “view to ensuring accountability and in complementarity with the African Union Commission of Inquiry.”
It further requires the mission to report on the steps undertaken by the government to monitor and ensure accountability of violations and abuses of human rights.
Zeid explained that the assessment report would contain recommendations for ways to improve the human rights situation in South Sudan and to ensure accountability for gross violations.
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