The national Ministry of Gender, Child and Social Welfare in collaboration with the United Nations Mission in South Sudan or UNMISS is on Thursday launching a campaign on the prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse, under the theme: “Speak Up!! Mata Askut (Do not keep quite)”.
A statement CRN got on Tuesday, said the campaign starts in Yei, Central Equatoria and go to other states running from October 9 through November 25.
During the exercise, UN agencies and the civil society will develop a series of awareness-raising activities in each state on sexual exploitation and abuse among all communities, groups, especially women, children and other vulnerable ones.
The campaign is also expected to provide adequate tools and sufficient knowledge to identify actions and behaviours that may lead to sexual exploitation and abuse to prevent and report them to designated entities when they occur.
It builds on the momentum to underscore the UN family in South Sudan and the national government’s zero-tolerance policy towards sexual exploitation and abuse.