Security Council Resolution 2155

18. Further demands that all parties immediately cease all forms of violence, human rights violations and abuses, violations of international humanitarian law, including GENDER-based violence, rape and other forms of SEXUAL violence, and violations and abuses against children in violation of applicable international law such as those involving their recruitment and use, killing and maiming, abduction and attacks against schools and hospitals, strongly urges the Government to the fully and immediately implement its action plan to end and prevent child recruitment signed on 12 March 2012 further strongly urges the opposition forces to fully and immediately implement their commitment to end grave violations against children signed on 10 May 2014, and calls for specific and time bound commitments to combat SEXUAL violence in accordance with resolution 1960 and 2106;

2. Urges all parties to engage in an open and fully inclusive national dialogue seeking to establish lasting peace, reconciliation and good governance, including through the full and effective participation of youth, WOMEN, diverse communities, faith groups, civil society, and the formerly detained SPLM leaders, encourages the efforts of IGAD and the United Nations to reach a peace agreement between the parties, and further urges them to ensure that child protection provisions are integrated into all peace negotiations and peace agreements;

4. Decides that the mandate of UNMISS shall be as follows, and authorizes UNMISS to use all necessary means to perform the following tasks: (a) Protection of civilians: (i) To protect civilians under threat of physical violence, irrespective of the source of such violence, within its capacity and areas of deployment, wi th specific protection for WOMEN and children, including through the continued use of the Mission's Child Protection and WOMEN Protection Advisers;

4. Decides that the mandate of UNMISS shall be as follows, and authorizes UNMISS to use all necessary means to perform the following tasks: (b) Monitoring and investigating human rights: (ii) To monitor, investigate, verify and report specifically and publicly on violations and abuses committed against children and WOMEN, including all forms of SEXUAL and GENDER-based violence in armed conflict by accelerating the implementation of monitoring, analysis and reporting arrangements on conflict-related SEXUAL violence and by strengthening the monitoring and reporting mechanism for grave violations against children;

Expressing grave concern that according to the 8 May 2014 "Conflict in South Sudan: A Human Rights Report," there are reasonable grounds to believe that war crimes and crimes against humanity, including extrajudicial killings, rape and other acts of SEXUAL violence, enforced disappearances, and arbitrary arrests and detention have been committed by all parties to the conflict in South Sudan,

Strongly condemning reported and ongoing human rights violations and abuses and violations of international humanitarian law, including those involving extrajudicial killings, ethnically targeted violence, SEXUAL and GENDER -based violence, rape, recruitment and use of children, enforced disappearances, arbitrary arrests and detention, violence aimed at spreading terror among the civilian population, and attacks on schools and hospitals as well as United Nations peacekeeping personnel, by all parties, including armed groups and national security forces, as well as the incitement to commit such abuses and violations, and emphasizing that those responsible for violations of international humanitarian law and violations and abuses of human rights must be held accountable and that the Government of South Sudan bears the primary responsibility to protect civilians within its territory and subject to its jurisdiction, including from potential crimes against humanity and war crimes,