Southern Sudan Human Rights Commission

South African Human Rights Commission | SAHRC [Abbr.]

UN Human Rights Council [ HRC | Human Rights Council | UNCHR | UN Commission on Human Rights | UN Human Rights Commission | United Nations Commission on Human Rights | United Nations Human Rights Commission | United Nations Human Rights Council ]

Human Rights Commission of Pakistan | HRCP [Abbr.]

Committee for the Defence of Human Rights in Honduras

Commission on Human Rights and Reception of Complaints [ National Assembly Commission on Human Rights and Reception of Complaints ]

human-rights-commission officer

Commission on Human Rights [ UNCHR ]

European Court of Human Rights [ Court of Human Rights | ECHR | European Commission on Human Rights ]

a.Building on the existing assessment of the impact of EU actions on fundamental rights, continue to improve the incorporation of HR in Commission impact assessments for proposals with external effect and likely significant impacts on HR; this should be done, as necessary, by developing further guidance on the analysis of HR impacts, strengthening the expertise and capacities for this type of analysis and ensuring robust consultations of relevant stakeholder groups exposed t ...[+++]o major HR risks.

Strengthening a Human Rights Ministry, the establishment of a Human Rights Commission and other institutions to investigate human rights abuses would be a step in the right direction.

9. Calls on the Government of South Sudan, following the recommendations of the UN Human Rights Council, to implement all international and regional human rights instruments to which it is party, as well as to improve the justice system and to strengthen the independence of the South Sudan Human Rights Commission; calls further for the European Union to ensure that the promotion of democracy and the establishment of an enabling environment for human rights organisations are essential elements in its development aid to South Sudan; c ...[+++]alls on the European Union to ensure that development aid to South Sudan carefully considers the rights of women and girls in the country, specifically by supporting women’s organisations as well as by ending the practice of child marriages and child labour; calls for harmonisation of customary and statutory law, and emphasises the importance of establishing a separate judicial system for minors in order to prevent unlawful imprisonment and protect children’s rights; condemns the South Sudan authorities’ arbitrary detentions and harassment of journalists, as reported by NGOs, because this results in de facto censorship; calls on the South Sudanese authorities to hold to account and prosecute the perpetrators of such crimes against journalists;

45. Is concerned at the resurgence of violence in Jonglei state in South Sudan, which is jeopardising the progress made on re-establishing peace and security in the region; supports the investigation requested by UNMISS, and calls for those responsible for the violence to be punished; calls on the Government of South Sudan to: (i) take the necessary steps to strengthen its international and national human rights framework, including by reconfirming its obligations under the international human rights treaties to which Sudan was party at the time of South Sudan’s independence, while withdrawing any reservations to them, and becoming par ...[+++]ty, without reservations, to other key international human rights treaties; (ii) immediately swear in members of the Investigation Committee into the Jonglei State Crisis and provide them with the necessary resources to carry out an independent, full and impartial investigation; (iii) immediately impose an official moratorium on executions with a view to abolishing the death penalty, and commute all death sentences to imprisonment; stresses the importance of the EU’s continuous assistance to South Sudan with a view to providing capacity-building for the country’s public administration and law enforcement authorities, creating and sustaining an effective civil society and promoting good governance; urges the EU to press for the ratification of key international human rights treaties by South Sudan and assist the country’s authorities in their implementation; condemns the reported abuses against civilians by the military forces in the demilitarisation process, and calls on the South Sudanese Government to conduct an independent investigation into the events in order to hold the soldiers involved accountable and ensure reparations for the victims;