Yasmin Sooka [Right], the chairperson of the UN Human Rights Commission, and Barney Afako [Left], UN Human Rights Commissioner during a press briefing in Juba - credit |Atem Jenifer/Eye Radio | February 11, 2022

A delegation of members of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan will visit the country for the eleventh time this week.

The experts are expected to meet government officials, members of civil society, jurists, UN agencies, and the United Nations Mission in South Sudan.

According to a press statement seen by Eye Radio, the UN experts will be in the country to discuss the human rights situation in South Sudan, including the commission’s latest findings and recommendations on priority areas for the country.

“The experts are expected to meet government officials, members of civil society, jurists, UN agencies and the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS),” reads the statement.

One of the key areas of their visit is the two-year extension of the mandate of the 2018 Revitalized Peace Agreement.

Those visiting the Country, are Andrew Clapham, Professor of Public International Law at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, and Barney Afako a Ugandan lawyer with experience in conflict mediation.

They will hold a press conference on Friday, 17 February 2023 at the UNMISS Headquarters in Juba na Bari (Tongpiny), Juba.

The delegation 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.

Established in March 2016, the commission is mandated to investigate the situation of human rights in South Sudan.

It is also mandated 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 or international laws.