Deal with Sexual Gender-Based Violence including rape, abductions and conscription of child soldiers in South Sudan, says the Deputy Chairman of Joint Monitoring and Evaluation Commission, JMEC.
Ambassador General Augostino Njoroge says cases of Sexual Gender-Based Violence have increased in the country over the years.
Stakeholders must find ways to deal with Sexual Gender-Based Violence, he urges.
The impacts of such violations are troubling on victims’ health and livelihoods, General Njoroge says.
He was speaking during the opening a two-day workshop on Sexual Gender-Based Violence in Juba.
South Sudan Women Empowerment Network, SSWEN and the Association of Media Women in South Sudan, AMWISS organized the workshop with support from JMEC.