Content_paragraphs:  Sexual violence against women, girls, men and boys has been a central feature
  
  of the conflict across different time periods and has been perpetrated by all major
  
  armed groups in the country. Conflict-related sexual violence has a severe impact on
  
  individual survivors and can have a devastating intergenerational effect on
  
  communities. In a survey held in South Sudan in 2017, it was found that 28 per cent
  
  of the women interviewed in Juba and 33 per cent of the women interviewed in
  
  Rumbek were survivors of rape, attempted rape or other forms of sexual assault by a
  
  non-partner. For men, those numbers were 9 per cent and 6 per cent, respectively. 2
  
  Given the tendency of survivors to underreport sexual violence, those numbers likely
  
  represent an underestimate of the actual scale of conflict-related sexual violence. The
  
  lack of accountability for those crimes and the absence of consistent and systematic
  
  messaging and efforts by commanders to prevent conflict-related sexual violence
  
  have contributed to their proliferation.