Content_paragraphs:  While stigma and potential retaliation against survivors remains a considerable
  
  barrier to reporting, UNMISS and United Nations agencies, funds and programmes
  
  have contributed to improving awareness of conflict-related sexual violence and the
  
  rights of survivors. For example, in 2019, UNMISS partnered with the South Sudan
  
  Council of Churches to disseminate a statement denouncing the stigma surrounding
  
  survivors of conflict-related sexual violence. While it should not be expected that
  
  each individual awareness campaign or event will shift perspectives, stakeholders
  
  observed that, collectively and over time, such efforts made an important
  
  contribution. In collaboration with the Office of the Special Representative of the
  
  Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict, UNMISS has secured
  
  
  
   
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  condemnations of conflict-related sexual violence from the parties to the conflict and
  
  commitments to reduce conflict-related sexual violence and, at the request of national
  
  authorities, UNMISS has provided inputs on conflict-related sexual violence to
  
  military training curricula. In addition, UNMISS has a special policing unit dedicated
  
  to the protection of women, children and other vulnerable groups. Inside the
  
  protection of civilians sites, its officers have carried out gender sensitiza tion activities
  
  and responded to reports of sexual and gender-based violence alongside humanitarian
  
  partners. Since 2019, in some areas of Juba, a specialized police team within the
  
  United Nations police has co-located its officers with officers of the South Sudan
  
  National Police Service to provide technical support on the management of sexual
  
  and gender-based violence and juvenile crimes. While that is an important initiative,
  
  one for which the leadership of the National Police Service has affirmed its sup port,
  
  the review team noted that its impact was limited because of the low point at which
  
  the capacity of the National Police Service to handle sexual and gender-based
  
  violence had started and because trained officers were being rotated and reassigned
  
  owing to low-level corruption and mismanagement.