Emily was bitten, beaten and raped just a few hundred metres from the UN camp in South Sudan's capital, Juba.

JUBA, 13 May 2014 (IRIN) - Sexual and gender-based violence might not be a new phenomenon in South Sudan, but the cur

The women of South Sudan played an instrumental role in the country's liberation struggle and will continue to make s

The minister of social development in South Sudan's Eastern Equatoria state, Paska Hifita, has called on women across

Three members of the team negotiating for South Sudanese rebels in Ethiopia are women.

A dozen women were seated in the courtyard underneath a traditional African roof.

A women's parliamentary caucus in South Sudan's border state of Warrap has called for enactment of laws which upholds

A series of workshops on women's participation in the Darfur Peace Process were organized throughout Darfur by the Af

Mahasa sits in the dust outside the hut she built herself, holding her youngest son in her arms.

Championed by the Ministry of Gender and Child Welfare, the consultations brought the UN family organizations dealing

Since South Sudan's independence on 9 July 2011, the positive role that women played in the independence struggle bar

When Navi Pillay, the UN high commissioner for human rights, visited South Sudan in May, she heard first-hand about t

Decades of conflict have left South Sudan with some of the world's worst health and educational indicators, contribut

It has been close to eight months since the Republic of South Sudan became independent.

South Sudan is the world's newest nation, born from the people's vote in January 2011 after 30 years of devastating c

Following its July 2011 secession from al-Bashirs reign, South Sudan finds itself in complete upheaval.

Magdalena Ehisa Tito, an elegant and extremely polite woman welcomed us into her home.

WFP has rapidly scaled up food assistance to more than 80,000 people forced from their homes and farms by an outburst

The girl's voice dropped to a hush as she remembered the bright, sunny afternoon when she stepped out of her hut and

A South Sudanese women's alliance on Wednesday said the National Constitution Review Commission (NCRC) did not fully

The girl's voice dropped to a hush as she remembered the bright, sunny afternoon when she stepped out of her hut and

The UK's first ambassador to South Sudan, Alistair McPhail, has called for a focus upon tackling the country's violen

UNAMID organized today in El Fasher, North Darfur, an open day on the progress in the implementation of the United Na

A report published in conjunction with a human rights conference to be held in Gambia from 24 October to 7 November p