Content_paragraphs:  In a positive step towards accountability, in June, civilian courts in Kuacjok, 
  
  Warrap and Wau, Western Bahr el-Ghazal, convicted a South Sudan People’s Defence 
  
  Forces soldier and a South Sudan National Police Service officer, respectively, of 
  
  conflict-related sexual violence against children, sentencing them to prison terms 
  
  
  
  S/2020/890 
   
  
   
  
  20-11243 12/18 
  
   
  
  ranging from 5 to 10 years and ordering them to pay financial damages to the 
  
  survivors’ families. In July, the South Sudan People’s Defence Forces established a 
  
  court martial in Yei to try soldiers accused of conflict-related sexual violence and 
  
  other serious human rights violations. At least 13 alleged perpetrators of nine rapes 
  
  and two gang rapes, involving 11 survivors, were prosecuted by the tribunal in 
  
  ongoing trials. However, domestic law provides that civilian courts exercise 
  
  jurisdiction over offences perpetrated against civilians.  
  
   
  
   
  
   C. Creating conditions conducive to the delivery of 
  
  humanitarian assistance